Good 'Ole Bessie

Growing up my family had a lime green station wagon. That's right...I said lime green. My family loved that station wagon and even named her Bessie.

If Bessie were still around and able to talk I wonder what she might say...

• That hurt when you bumped me into that pole!
• Is there a good reason why you crammed so many people into the back of me just to drive around town?
• The Colorado Mountains sure were hard on my lungs!
• Did you have fun learning to drive me?
• The salt on the road made my body itchy!
• Why didn't you give me baths more often?
• Your family always made me laugh.
• Sorry when I didn't start for you.
• Your band friends were always my favorite because they knew how to have fun.
• Having you, Amber, and Paul lying in the back of me and looking out my back window made me smile. I still do not understand why looking at the reflection of headlights made you laugh so hard.
• Can you believe how many mosquitoes were at the drive-in the times we went? You and your cousins were crazy to stay outside to watch the movies instead of coming inside me!
• I miss the good 'ole days.

Those days with Bessie were filled with so many memories it would be hard to write them all down. It is fun to imagine what she might have said given the chance and ability though.