FFF - The Scent of

"Me and you and a dog named Boo...." those lyrics faded out as the song ended.  I got out of the car; I had to go.  Gloria called out to me and I looked back into the car where we had just made love.  She looked up at me with those "puppy dog" eyes, her scent along with the spring flowers around me and that new Plymouth were the best smells I had ever known or will know.

"Where ya' goin'", she said?

"I have to take a leak" I replied in protest

"Are ya' comin' back?" she said through her devious smile.

"Of course; I'll always come back to you."

And in a way I do always come back to her.  Yeah, she went off to college up north and I stayed close and went to UGa, but on a spring day when I smell that honeysuckle my mind comes back to her and those lazy days by the river and the scent of her and a new car.

Author's note:  After thinking about it I thought of changing the song to the Sammy John's song "Chevy Van."  But the car is obviously not a van and that Lobo song is what hit me initially when I saw the photo and I think what is fun is to write about the first thing that hits my mind; kind of like an "ink blot" test.  I wonder what all these FFF say about my screwed up mind!   :)

Anyway, this is not a completely accurate depiction.  That song was recorded in 1971.  I say the car is a Plymouth because it reminds me of a car my dad drove in the early 70's which was a hand-me-down from his dad.  That Plymouth was probably about a '66.  Adding that up it's hard to imagine a "new care" smell in 1971 from a 1966 Plymouth.  But in the end I claim creative license!