OPEN POST: Ride, Ride, Ride, Hitchin' A Ride!

By AK


It's hot and breezy today (the same could be said for that tramp Janine in Home-Ec!) so let's jump in my dad's new LeSabre convertible, go cruisin' and turn on the radio. There's bound to be something good playing. Ooooh, the new Carpenters song is on!


So let's relax and have fun--after all, it's sunny, it's 1970 and it's Open Post, darlings!

Photo Credit: AK

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