I protested that I can just buck up and learn to drive the bad and scary car, but Steve made a compelling case for purchasing the new car, because it will actually be financially advantageous to us, AND it will make it less likely that I'll be super nervous when I drive and get in an accident and cause an ambulance to show up at our house and remind Steve of that old, church filmstrip about the little boy named Jamie whose mom gets sick and promises to send him a rainbow, the saddest filmstrip of all time that makes even the most emotionally resistant shed a wee tear for little, orphaned, filmstrip boys.
It was the filmstrip reference that really tipped the scales on the car buying decision.
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That filmstrip. I just don't know where to begin.
I think the automatic transmission is a good decision.
That filmstrip, it just makes me tear up just to think about it. We Brogan men always had a soft spot that only it could bring out.
KWB
I've never seen that filmstrip. But I have the song on my iPod and I kick myself every time I start crying. It's terrible!
The filmstrip makes me think of orphaned Todd and he sings the song to torment my emotions.
New car! Yippee!
I am not familiar with that particular filmstrip, but what was up with that period (1970s?) with all the depressing church movies? My siblings and I loathed "The Mailbox," and as I recall "Cipher in the Snow" and "What About Thad" were pretty traumatizing as well. I can see how films and filmstrips like that could cast a decades-long shadow on one's major purchasing decisions.
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