Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Zenkitty - Aug 11, 2016 7:37:00 am PDT #25862 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

hahaha take the rental car back with a destroyed transmission and both bumpers dented, "no idea what happened! good thing we got the no-questions'asked insurance!"


Sophia Brooks - Aug 11, 2016 7:38:13 am PDT #25863 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I was in a rural area, but my school had driver's ed. I also drove with friends, but I pretty much just learned to drive enough to pass the test, and then learned more after by just driving more.

My mom tried to teach me once, and it was not a good thing.


Jesse - Aug 11, 2016 7:38:39 am PDT #25864 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

How far away is the closest driving school? That may end up being the best bet, if there's no one else in her life with an automatic.


Zenkitty - Aug 11, 2016 7:45:55 am PDT #25865 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

The only driver's ed school is on the other side of the city, and the course is spread out over the whole month, and it's just not accessible because her mom has to work.


DavidS - Aug 11, 2016 7:59:58 am PDT #25866 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And Ginger. I'd sure love her perspective during this election.

I keep wanting to jump up and down with her about Georgia leaning Blue this election.


EpicTangent - Aug 11, 2016 8:01:00 am PDT #25867 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

how do people date?

If you figure it out, let me know.

SERIOUSLY

"If people won't take care of their neighbors out of altruism, it's not the government's job to do it."

Former Republican (Mormon) co-worker of mine would say this, except "church & the community". Which I found (still find) ridiculously blindered, or childish, or something. It's all well and good to say that people should take care of each other (and the community), BUT THEY DON'T! And in the meanwhile, children still need to be educated, people need to not die from preventable disease, fires need to be put out, and roads need to be paved (ETC.) So frustrating.

I thought the government's job is to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But what do I know, it's not like it's written down someplace.

*High-Fives Gud*

Wish I could help, Zen, but I went to Driving School, and when I still wasn't road-safe at the end of it, my dad took over. Craigslist?


EpicTangent - Aug 11, 2016 8:06:31 am PDT #25868 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

FWIW, Zen, I learned to drive on a manual transmission. It was harder, but my dad's logic was, since you're learning anyway, learn it all at once, rather than learning to drive, being freaked out, getting over it, then having to freak out all over again learning stick.


Steph L. - Aug 11, 2016 8:07:49 am PDT #25869 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

She needs a driver's ed course but there's none around.

Is there only the one high school (the one she attends, which doesn't offer driver's ed)? Because if there's another high school that DOES offer driver's ed, maybe some kind of deal could be worked out for her to take it there?


Sophia Brooks - Aug 11, 2016 8:11:32 am PDT #25870 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is there only the one high school (the one she attends, which doesn't offer driver's ed)? Because if there's another high school that DOES offer driver's ed, maybe some kind of deal could be worked out for her to take it there?

It might be too late in the year for driver ed, but I just remembered that my school (which held summer school for the county) did all the driver ed for the whole county too!. So maybe there is something like that (although you would think the school would have told her) .


shrift - Aug 11, 2016 8:31:24 am PDT #25871 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

And I just want to say, "DUDE. You are turning 40 in ten days. You sound like a college freshman who just read Ayn Rand for the first time. STOP IT."

HA. I just start saying things like, "Hope you don't need roads! If your house catches fire, I hope you're okay with the fire department waiting to put out the blaze until you pay them!"