Box #15 Brody Carter

When I think of a place that brings a lot of sensory detail to memory I think of my grandpa’s truck. He used to pick me up every day from school and I would go back to his house until my mom got off of work. He drove a navy blue Dodge Ram. His truck was an extended cab. I would always like to ride in the back seat in the seat that folds down like an airplane seat. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of his truck is the smell that was in it. He used to always wear a lot of cologne. I do not remember the exact brand of cologne that he wore, but if I smelt it to this day I would remember the exact smell of it. Also in the mixture of cologne was he always used to chew on Life Saver mints. The flavor he would always chew on was winterfresh. I cannot say that the mixture of cologne and mints was pleasant, but it is a distinctive scent that I will remember for the rest of my life.
My grandpa also would have the heat turn all the way up. He could be sweating, and never turned down the heat. Another detail that I will always remember is the sound of the radio. He rarely ever listened to the actual radio, but he did listen to cassette tapes. The only tape that I can ever remember listening to was Roy D. Mercer. I don’t know if people know who he is, but he was a comedian would do prank phone calls. One of the key lines that he would always say is, “well how big of a boy are you?” My grandpa would then burst into laughter at the pranks this man would play on people. It didn’t matter how many times he had heard it, my grandpa would laugh until he almost would cry.