Tommy,
Sounds like she could not manage doing two things at once.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Jul 24, 2012 12:25:08 pm PDT #15274 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Beverly - Jul 24, 2012 12:26:12 pm PDT #15275 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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?
billytea - Jul 24, 2012 12:29:35 pm PDT #15276 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Scrappy - Jul 24, 2012 12:51:31 pm PDT #15277 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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.
§ ita § - Jul 24, 2012 12:55:25 pm PDT #15278 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, this [link] is sweet.
Connie Neil - Jul 24, 2012 12:56:45 pm PDT #15279 of 30001
brillig
I do not parallel park. So far I've managed to get everywhere I need to without doing so.
Scrappy - Jul 24, 2012 12:59:48 pm PDT #15280 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That's lovely, ita. Good on him.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2012 1:08:24 pm PDT #15281 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He's A-OK.
I didn't have to parallel park for my driver's test, but it was one of the things I was generally good at, when I did drive -- me and flea! Non-driving parkers unite! I think for me it's because you're the only one moving, more or less.
askye - Jul 24, 2012 1:12:38 pm PDT #15282 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I don't parallel park. My parents tried to teach me to drive stick (they failed) , Mom's best friend tried to teach me (she failed) I can't drive stick. I also really didn't want to drive so I did the bare minimum in lessons, managed to pass my driver's test when I was 17 or 18 because my parents made me. And I was a lousy driver for a long time, but I'm better now.
flea - Jul 24, 2012 1:30:25 pm PDT #15283 of 30001
information libertarian
Exactly, Jesse! I feel that I would be an excellent driver, if I were permitted to be the only person driving within a several mile radius. As long as nobody else moves, I can handle it. (I mean, I *have* successfully merged on the New Jersey Turnpike, but I frankly hope never to have to do that again. Two lanes met three lanes and became four lanes, if I recall correctly. If I believed in Hell, it would be sort of like that. Possibly with my mother in the car.)