It was a rainy afternoon on April 2014, I get home and notice that my mom isn’t home but her car is in the driveway. I patiently wait and sit around the house, as I was scrolling through my phone I get a phone call from my mom. I knew she was up to something because she told me she was driving home. She kept telling me she has a surprise and I was asking her to tell me and she made me guess. She called half an hour later and says “look out the window”, I run to the window and see her driving a silver car. I started screaming because I was so excited, I knew that she bought me that car! I run outside and hug her.
I get inside and notice its automatic, I was a little upset because I spent the whole summer learning to drive stick shift. I realized that the paint was also chipping away. The first thing I did was drive to the store and bought the cassette aux adapter so I could play music from my iPod!
As much as I was happy, I was also let down because I hoped my first car would be something cool like a Toyota Celica coupe or Volkswagen GTI. My mom can sometimes have a strong accent when she speaks and I asked her over the phone what the car model was and she kept saying Sentra SE. I quickly looked the car up online and saw that the SE was the sport version with 175 horsepower.
This was the Sentra SE model. When I saw, I was excited as a car enthusiast.
It was a different story when I saw the car in person, my mom meant to say XE. The lowest economy model they sold. The car had roll up windows, only two wiper settings, the radio screen was so small it wouldn’t even show the clock at the same time as the radio station. The car didn’t even the most basic safety feature: Anti-lock brakes, every time I would brake in the rain it would just slide forward. 
I disliked the car so much, it would always have the service engine light warning. Although, I didn’t have the nicest car, I learned to appreciate what I have. I realized what it felt like to be independent, I started working my 1st job while still being in school. I drove to school during 10th grade, when no one had a car yet. I think that when I will be older I will be extremely grateful for what my mom did, but to this day we always laugh about that car.
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Alex Calinescu 
