Unveiling the Mystique of Men, Hills, and Broken Cars

If You See a Dude Pushing a Car, Join In

Back in school Dick drove us everywhere. Dick drove a baby shit brown Tercel whose battery did not last.

With Dick we learned a few things.

First. The next best way to attract a crowd of men after digging a large hole? Push a car up a hill. Dicks’ Tercel was a standard. We always had to jump start it. We regularly would gather together a crowd of people to help us get it started.

It got to the point where just one of would start pushing and the rest would join in. It was a great way to leave a party. It was a lot of fun then. We felt reckless, spirited and unshackled by the alterior motives of our alternators functionality. (no this isn’t a good joke but it sounded great in my head)

Currently, my car needs a new battery. I screwed up jump starting it the other day and ran out of hill. What’s a guy to do, get a boost from some ‘automatic transmission’ driver?

Not this dude.

This dude (me) started pushing his car back up the hill.

It could have been a problem. The car was heavy and the hill, …