A little Boy's wish

From MemoryArchive

Who: Patrick Schlimgen
What: Go-carts
When: As a kid
Where: Wisconsin

A little boy’s wish

When I was about 10 years old I wanted a go-cart extremely bad. I kept nagging my parents for one and I kept seeing them in stores and at garage sales and each time my dad said that they were to expensive or that they didn’t look like they were in very good shape. Finally I went to this garage sale with my mom and I saw this go-cart and I begged my mom to buy it for me but she said we had to talk to my dad first. So we went home and when my dad got home I told him that I found this go-cart at a garage sale and I really wanted it. That night we went to they guy’s house that owned the go-cart and my dad looked at it. My dad asked him to start it so he could see how well it ran. The guy started it and he shut it off kind of fast. My dad told the guy that he had to think about it and he would get back too him the next day. I and my dad went home and on the way I asked him what he thought of it. He told me that he was worried that the engine wasn’t very good because he shut it off so fast. My dad called him back the next day and told him that we didn’t want it. After my dad told the guy that we didn’t want the go cart I was kind of mad at him. A few weeks later my dad was at this farm sale and they were selling this old dirt bike. The auctioneer started to sell the dirt bike and know one was biding on it so my dad bid on it once and he got it. When my dad got home that afternoon he told me to come outside because he had something for me. I went outside and in the trunk of the car was this old dirt bike. I was so excited but he said that we would have to take it in and get it tuned up before I could ride it. After we got it tuned up my dad taught me how to ride it. It was hard at first but then I got the hang of it.