Happy birthday, Kristin, Maria, and Charles Darwin!
Happy birthday Kristin and Maria! And Darwin, and Lincoln. And my brother. The 12th is a busy birthing day.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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billytea - Feb 12, 2009 1:51:05 pm PST #825 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Kathy A - Feb 12, 2009 1:56:23 pm PST #826 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know I've mentioned somewhere on this board that the first day we had behind-the-wheel driving time in drivers' ed happened to be right after what we all knew would be the last snow of the winter, so the instructor had us practicing how to steer out of a skid on the side street next to the school, which hadn't been plowed yet. That'll wake you up on a Saturday morning!
My first driving test was a close one--I came within one point of flunking. But, I did better than both of my siblings, who both flunked and had to retake theirs.
Parallel parking does require constant practice. I got really good at it when I lived in Oak Park and had to park on the street every night, but now that I've got a lot to park in, I'm losing my touch. I need a lot more space to maneuver!
Atropa - Feb 12, 2009 1:59:03 pm PST #827 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Everyone's stories of their driving lessons are starting to make me nervous. I'm finally going to take driving lessons & get my license this spring.
SuziQ - Feb 12, 2009 2:08:10 pm PST #828 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Yay! Jilli!!!!
I used to go down to the parking lot at the race track to practice driving and parallel parking. When it rained heavy, my mom took me down there to learn how to deal with fishtailing. All this was before I took driver's ed.
Connie Neil - Feb 12, 2009 2:17:56 pm PST #829 of 30000
brillig
Yay, Jilli! Just tell the instructor not to play 70's country and always obey the street signs and you should be fine. Have you practiced getting petticoats under the wheel so you can get to the pedals properly? You may need a proper Victorian driving outfit.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 2:21:12 pm PST #830 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Connie Neil - Feb 12, 2009 2:24:42 pm PST #831 of 30000
brillig
More black, but the goggles and the veil are a must.
meara - Feb 12, 2009 2:25:51 pm PST #832 of 30000
I don't really remember my driver's ed instructor. It was...a guy? There were....a few other students in the car? We did it for a few weeks and then it was over? Wow, it really didn't make that big of an impression on me, other than being really scared the first day, because I'd never been behind the wheel of a car, and they were like "OK, go!" and I was like "ON A REAL STREET? We don't practice in a parking lot or something first, WTF?!?!"
Atropa - Feb 12, 2009 2:36:56 pm PST #833 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Have you practiced getting petticoats under the wheel so you can get to the pedals properly?
Oh ... bother. No, no I haven't practiced that, and I didn't even think about it. Argh.
Steph L. - Feb 12, 2009 2:42:55 pm PST #834 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My driver's ed teacher said there was no point in teaching how to parallel park because it was something you just needed to do repeatedly to get the hang of it.
My teacher would ask us where we were taking our test, because he knew which places set the cones so you had to parallel park to the right or to the left, and then he only taught us one side. Aces.