Huh, I feel like I always had cup holders. But, no, there were definitely times of holding a coke or coffee with my left hand and just steering with the right, or bracing the steering wheel with my wrist while I shifted. I also often had passengers that could hold my beverage for me if necessary, and if I didn't have passengers I might very well have one of those cardboard drink holders from McDonalds sitting on the passenger seat.
BTW, yesterday's excess coffee has all been consumed. Crisis: Too Much Coffee averted. For now.
BTW, yesterday's excess coffee has all been consumed. Crisis: Too Much Coffee averted. For now.
And I bough new coffee. So everything has worked out and balance has been restored.
My cup holder/sippy cup lack may also be because I drove a 1979 car in 1993. I also live in the back wood, because I remember the first time I saw a ravel mug was also about 1993. My boss had one from weight watchers to drink water. I loved it and remarked upon it so much that she gave me one!
Sister update: she's doing OK and will likely be discharged tomorrow. Home care nurse is set to come twice a day to change her dressing. She is freaking out about this and I'm not sure how to calm her. I don't think she realizes that, if she's not OK with a home healthcare nurse, the alternative is a skilled nursing facility. I really hope she stops trying to talk people out of this.
Has anyone said that to her explicitly?
So everything has worked out and balance has been restored.
Whew!
I don't remember when travel mugs came in vogue. I do remember my dad having to empty his car of the ceramic mugs that gradually collected from his commute back in the day, and he is generally a buyer of coffee mugs (they are probably his most favored souvenir and he loves museum & park gift shops) so he would have jumped on travel mugs as soon as he could, but I can't pinpoint when that might have been. We always had nalgene bottles from backpacking for carrying water around, I kinda think there might have been insulated coffee mugs with closable tops (but without the tapered bottoms to fit into car cupholders) fairly early in my life.
I am sporting my #sixseasonsandamovie shirt today, and delivering my Community DVDs to my mom (well, seasons 1-3, I haven't had a chance to even open season 4, yet. If she gets that far before I get to it maybe we will watch those commentary tracks together).
I used to drive stick and drink a diet coke and smoke on my way in to school, while taking out the hot rollers I had put in before I left. Make-up was done at home, though. Ridiculous. Now, I pull over if I have to touch my phone to fiddle with GPS -- a couple docus about the dangers of distracted driving, and I was convinced.
Also, the older I get, the more I mute just mute my phone. Amazing how quickly I got jaded once I finally had a Communicator for real. Maybe I'd be still be psyched if there were a spaceship to talk to.
Glad she is doing okay, Burrell. I hope the freaking out is temporary.
I hope all goes well with your sister, Burrell. Yeah, home health nurse is a way better option! I hope that notion gets through.
Has anyone said that to her explicitly?
Yeah. I can understand the freakout, but sometimes unappealing bad is better than worse lurking around the corner.
However, there is at least one nurse to maybe avoid...
