Mom raced in rallies, I don't know what kind of car they drove. That's the kind where you're competing with other teams on a kind of scavenger hunt. She drove and her best friend Mac navigated. He was a cool English dude. I had a crush on him.

Here in New Jersey, it's illegal to pump your own gas. When I first moved here from the South, I couldn't believe there were grown people who didn't know how to pump gas.

It's not that difficult, though. I mean...you squeeze the handle. The end.

Seriously. A friend of mine joined me for a visit down South and I watched her try to pump gas. She didn't even know to squeeze the handle. I guess if you've never even watched someone do it, it could be baffling.

"This child is sponsored by Tim Minear"

Kat, add "of TV's hit Drive" and you may have something there.

Whoa. I just Googled Mom's friend, for no reason because I know he's dead, and found he was apparently a designer of rally equipment. Mac Cornforth. That's very cool.

aurelia, good point. I'll add that into my email proposal.

Mom raced in rallies, I don't know what kind of car they drove. That's the kind where you're competing with other teams on a kind of scavenger hunt. She drove and her best friend Mac navigated. He was a cool English dude. I had a crush on him.

That is so frakkin' cool.

Mom was pretty cool. I think she'd have liked Drive. Anything with cars going real fast, she liked.

Except NASCAR. I think she was more into Cannonball-Run type racing, where you might actually hit someone. Possibly some sublimated anger there.

Do we mean sponsor as in "You can sponsor this child or you can turn the page", sponsor as in "This heartwarming child brought to you by Tim Minear", or sponsor as in N-step program? Because I think the last might be a tad premature.

This moment in bad taste brought to you by me, myself, and I.

well, it would be entirely wrong to say the sponsored child was brought to us by Tim.

But, more like Nike sponsors the University of Tennessee women's basketball program.