This week’s meme comes from Linda at Are We There Yet?

The Over the Top Meme

Part One – Describe:

Your hair? Short, spiky, with blond highlighting.

Your mother? Tenacious, talented, and never fulfilled because she was unable to complete her education. Hence, she was determined to instill in me the desire to complete my education, a goal she lived to see me attain. She was always frustrated that her labor at home did not result in a financial contribution to the household, but she knew how valuable her work was. Still, she pushed me to make my own money, encouraging me to “never be dependent upon a man” for support. And indeed, I never have been.

Your father? The hardest working person I have ever known, with the possible exception of my mother. He was “self-made” in the sense that he dropped out of high school in his freshman year and went to work. It was during World War II when he was drafted into the Army that his mechanical abilities were fleshed out through vocational testing. He served in the motor pool of the Army Air Corps and continued working as an auto mechanic after he was discharged, first for the Chevrolet-Buick-John Deere dealership in the little town in South Dakota where we lived. After we moved to California when I was just six months old, he worked briefly at Chase Chevrolet in Stockton. But Gene Gabbard was opening a Lincoln-Mercury dealership, so he went to work there to avoid the night shift. And remained for 27 years until he retired at the age of 65 in 1984.

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