Hot summer
My family lived in a small rural community while I was in high school. The summer after my sophomore year of high school I had just gotten my drivers license. One day mom asked if I could drive her to the city to do some shopping. We took the old station wagon and I drove the 15 miles to the nearby city where they had a large supermarket. We did the shopping and bought non perishable items that were either expensive or not available in the local shop in our town. I was about to turn onto the highway to our village when mom asked me to stop at a tavern where we knew the owner. I didn’t like to do that because I couldn’t drink and it was rather boring but mom insisted so …