You'll Never Be Happy Unless You Do This
- Kirsten Weinzierl
- May 3, 2018
- 9 min read
It was a super wet, cold and rainy summer night (this is how all love stories start, right?). I was in the back seat of this tiny little junker of a car that my best friend's boyfriend was squealing us around in. We were driving around town trying to find an open gas station at midnight on a Thursday night. We stopped at the first gas station, that at first looked open. But upon pulling up to it, quickly noticed it was closed.

Mud Running - People actually do that! The boys explained they were stuck there after the "tall ones" truck broke down after a night of mud running. "What in the world? People do that?" I thought, staring at the tall one much longer than I comfortably should have. They were waiting for a ride but had been there over 30 minutes and weren't confident their ride was even going to show up. "We can give you a ride!" I somewhat giddily blurted out. Aaron was a little dumbfounded since I was now offering to give these three, not very tiny, boys a ride in his clown car. "We can all squeeze in!" I exclaimed. Although I wasn't really sure we could. I step out of the car to let these guys get in and after they are in, I realize, there's no way we're all going to fit. Then the tall one says I can sit on his lap. OMG!! My heart about flipped outta my chest and I jumped on that poor guy's lap before he even had a thought to change his mind. "Hi, I'm Kirsten" "Hello, I'm Nathaniel, but people call me Nathan. Except for my mom." "Nice to meet you, Nathan. So, mud running, huh? You must have a big truck to be doing that sort of thing?" "Yes, it's pretty high up there." "Sounds interesting. I'd like to check it out sometime." "Well, I usually cruize on sixth on Saturday nights with it. If you come I can show you. I should be able to get it out of the mud and cleaned up by then."
Summer Love
After that first night we met, Nathan and I were inseparable. When we weren't together, we were on the phone. It was a straight month or so of driving, making out, talking until 4 am and listening to music. We fell in love, hard. This was my first real love relationship. I absolutely adored this boy and really looked up to him. By looked up to him, I mean that completely literally because he was seven feet two inches and I was five feet one. My nose came up to about his belly button. We were quite the odd looking couple, but we got along so well. We had so much in common, our personalities meshed and he even introduced me to his beloved mother.
One sweltering hot summer night we decided to go drive around in his big mud running truck before going to the movies. We picked up his best friend Jeremy who was willing to be the third wheel that night. As we were cruising around, with the top off his truck, we were running into almost everyone that Nathan knew. All his friends from school, some teachers, even his dentist. It was shaping up to be a pretty awesome night. At around sunset, Nathan came up with the idea that I should drive his truck. He said it would be a good experience for me since there was no other chance I would probably ever have to drive something like this. The truck looked very similar to the tuck pictured below. Ginormous wheels, front bucket seats, bench back seat, no top with a row bar. Except Nathan's was red.

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