preview

Personal Narrative: Race Car Driver

Decent Essays
Open Document

That same summer, after my father got home from work a little early, he allowed me to ride the mow. Since the yard was already mowed the day before, I utilized this opportunity to practice my epic passion of becoming a NASCAR race car driver. My mother thought it was a little unusual that I aspired to the feeling of speed that is typically a dream that young boys have. Speed made me feel like I was the empress of the road and like I would arrive at my destination faster than anyone else, even though my destination lacked a beginning and end. The prior Christmas, I remember that my father purchased my sisters and I remote-controlled vehicles. Both of my sisters received a car each while I received a truck, a vehicle that can knock all other …show more content…

As my father and I watched NASCAR on television, my father told the three of us that we were going for a ride. As we walked to my father’s old-fashioned 2-door Grand Prix, my father asked me to take the wheel. I refused promptly and my father told my middle sister to sit in the driver’s seat. As my father explained to us the different gears in the car and the distinction between the gas and brake pedal, my legs started to tremble. Flashbacks of the lawn mower accident clouded my thoughts. I thought about the consequences that I would face if I hit someone and if the car was even capable of making sharp turns on deep curves. As the car started to move, I almost panicked, but soon realized that I was not behind the wheel. My father let my sister ride on the edge of the yard in a complete square. As we approached the front of the yard, my eyes, accidently, glanced over to the bird bath that still remained after all these years. To avoid throwing away the bird bath, my father placed the seahorse back on top of the bird bath’s structure. As I stared at the bird bath, visions of that day taunted me. I knew that I that I was not emotionally capable of driving a car due to my traumatic experience with the lawn mower, which equates to almost one third of a

Get Access
Related
Get Access