My First Car Was My Best Car

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My first car was a 2002 silver Chevrolet Cavalier. I loved that car so much! Being a native of Philadelphia I know the mundane task of waiting for SEPTA in the elements, so you can imagine how elated I was when I got the phone call from my Mother saying that she had bought my car for me.I was so enthusiastic that I was going to have a car, that I can call my own, not my mom's minivan nor my dad's dodge charger. ("First Car" StudyMode.com.) I was just imagining all the places that I would visit that I otherwise couldn't do on public transit or have to pay money for a rental car which I did not want to do. My first car granted me freedom and reliability that I longed for. In some ways my first car was my best car. The first reason is the majority of the time I spent too much time waiting for the bus or train, sometimes I needed to take more than one bus or train. If I had my own car perhaps I wouldn't waste my time at each bus stop. My parents would tell me: "The traffic is a bother when you need to get to work because it's rush hour". But there are more ways to go to work or school I would say to them. I work at 8:00 am to 3:00 pm and most of time I have to plan more than one hour to go out and be at the bus stop. The second reason is when I go shopping and I buy many things for the week or a month the shopping becomes a bigger challenge, because carrying those packages is uncomfortable and exhausting. Also I have more options to buy my goods by driving verses taking different buses to the supermarket but my father prefers to buy in the same store and He says: "You can save that money if you take the train or the bus" But I think different because if you have an emergency for example, like you need to get some medicine in the middle of the night , the buses or train have a specific schedule you can't count on in those situations. Finally my third reason is
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