Harold Cox

If I didn't want to take the test, I fainted.

If I didn't want to go to church, I fainted.

If I didn't want to go outside and play basketball and football, two things that I absolutely hated, I fainted.

Fainting was my superpower.

Now the only other thing I should probably tell you is that I was then and I probably still am now an explorer.

So one afternoon, I'm 12 years old, I'm home alone, there's nobody else at home.

I go in and I get the key to my father's brand new metallic blue Buick LeSabre.

I go outside into the garage, and I look at this car, which I loved.

I ran my hand over the sleek design of the car, and then I went and I stood in front of the driver's door.

And I just stood there, and I said, it's time.

I opened the door.

I got in the car.

I am now in the seat.

I am in the driver's seat.

And what's more is I am in the throne.

I know exactly what to do here because I have seen my father do this many times.

And I know that I can do everything that he can do.

So I put the key in the ignition.

I turn the car on.

the car purrs exactly the way that I knew it would.