My First Ride #Flashfiction #gas #car
Seems like yesterday
March 1st 2025 when I bought
my first two-seater shopping cart vehicle for $5000
It sure beat traditional automobiles;
gas had gotten up to $1200 for a fill up. My parents parked our SUV and lived in it.
shucks a bag of groceries was $1000 for bread,, milk, cheese, and a pound of hamburger
you had to economize back then.
my best girl loved getting tangled in the wire baskets in the back seat.
oh the memories of being young and in love
now we have a family sedan with heated handlebars. Dog gone if they didn’t convert fuel from corn oil to turkey manure.
The prompt of the shopping cart vehicles comes from Friday Fictioneers
Now that is a ride
On a converted pew wisp
Oh the places you glide
- you made me laugh! Thanks!
And a drop-top at that! Go figure…
Now that was an interesting story! Must be a lot of turkeys in the future (and I only mean of the bird kind, although…) if they’re using the manure for fuel. Ill be right back. I’m off to buy some turkeys!
janet
Awesome! lol
Family sedan with heated handlebars? Now that’s clever! Not sure I relish the idea for the car of the future.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I’d rather drive a shoppping cart than live in an SUV
Ah, heated handlebars. What WILL they think of next?
would have liked those on my cold bike as a child
this sentence: “Dog gone if they didn’t convert fuel from corn oil to turkey manure.” i think you mean something more like, “Dog gone if they didn’t convert fuel out of everything from corn oil to turkey manure.”
but that’s three extra words. what do we cut?
here: “gas had gotten up to $1200″ can become “gas reached $1200″
there’s three words cut.
happy new year.
sorry if the wording was not as clear as it could have been – they are already using corn oil in Cali so my meaning was that they went from using Corn Oil to using turkey manure…
i knew what you meant about the corn oil, but i was trying to help you adjust to wording that sounds more like phrasing that we’ve already heard for something like that.
@ gas prices that high it would be best to seek out some cave & become a recluse cave dweller…
love your story! let’s hope it stays fictional…ha!
Love the idea of the sedan with the heated handlebars. Well done