Aw, msbelle.

I just found out I have to go sign my lease at 11am next week. Super annoying! They only do it ever between 10am and 2pm. Honestly, I would take the whole day off work except it's our ice cream social! Hee. But anyway, this lady at the landlord's was like, "Your broker called me... We don't usually call people." Um, what do you mean? "They usually call us." Right, you mean more than the FOUR VOICEMAIL MESSAGES I've left you over the past two weeks, including ONE THIS MORNING. Right. Argh.

today is not even that frustrating, it's my complete inability to deal with a solid day's work. I need days to flake off.

Thanks y'all. I hope the nanny/helper thing will help ease some of this non-sense in my head.

Yeah, $1000 to get it pulled seems very unreasonable!!

My dad tried to take me to learn to drive on some back roads near his parents' farm, but I nearly drove us into a ditch and he gave up. I took driving lessons after that--scarily, they just had us start on the suburban roads near the school, bam. But I survived

I ran a red light every time I drove a car in driver's ed. YAY!

I once tried to teach a friend to drive. I had to tell her things like, "Slow down for this corner" and "Red light--you have to stop!"

Sometimes she'd turn and then forget to straighten the steering wheel. So she pulled into a grocery store and kept on turning until she was driving on their lawn. She made a turn on the UW-Madison campus and kept on turning and drove up on the sidewalk, causing students to scatter.

I've never before or since seen a driver that clueless.

Tommy,

Sounds like she could not manage doing two things at once.

I had a friend who would A. begin her turn, B. look in the rear-view, C. turn on her signal. I rode with her *once*. I learned to drive stick on the lawn tractor while I was mowing. Whoohoo! And then we got one of these. I was a teenager. So were my friends. The car was often picked up by four of them and put someplace besides where it had been parked. It was a thing. Fun to drive, *no* pickup at all. Don't even try to merge on the Interstate.

Typo, I'm sorry--that seems unreasonable.

msbelle, your job should be nicer to the nicest. Want me to come bop 'em?

Sounds like she could not manage doing two things at once.

She was doing two things at once! Endangering herself and others!

I learned to drive from a driving instructor rather than my parents. They decided this after my older brother managed to get the side of the car ripped off while my dad was teaching him to drive.

This is all very apropos, as my niece is taking her SIXTH try to pass her driver's test today. She can do everything except parallel park.

Oh, this [link] is sweet.