This happened so long ago I shudder to think of the years gone by! Yes, kids, I am a lot older than most of you!

My very first car was a Metropolitan. Ah, you don't even know what that is, do you? Well, I was very lucky to even have any car at all and I was paying it off very slowly. And it was a used car I bought from a relative.

A Metropolitan is a very tiny car (smaller than a Mini-Cooper, I think). To get to the trunk you unlocked the back seat which folded down revealing some trunk space. I just didn't care, I had WHEELS!

Now Richard may be the only person that can truly appreciate this because he knows Los Angeles.

I was driving north up La Cienega Blvd. At the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega - ahead there is a very steep hill. It never dawned on me that my little car would not be able to make that hill. I got half way up and clearly my car was balking at the hill.

Amazing - but then the traffic was very light (not so today) and all I could do was coast back down the hill...backwards......and finally get turned around in the correct lane in the opposite direction.

My heart was pounding..........but I made it!