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Having a FabulousFriday over on Marcia Meara’s The Write Stuff blog. Hope you’ll join us!
“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns Fifty
The Vomit-Comet, my family’s Chevy Impala wagon with the red pleather interior & outside painted (for reasons my father never revealed) mint green.
“Do NOT,” my mother warned as she slid out of the red pleather bench seat of the Vomit Comet, “…come out without IT.” I had just turned sixteen, and IT was my drivers license. Growing up in a California suburb where you practically needed a car to drive to your mailbox, a license meant freedom and adulthood and illicit trips to the beach. In my case, it also meant relief for my mother, who ran a one-woman taxi service for her ten children, frequently logging upwards of a hundred miles in…
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Thank you so much for joining The Write Stuff today as our #FabulousFridayGuestBlogger, Barb! Wonderful post, and I’m so happy I drive in a country that tends to keep livestock firmly enclosed within large, fenced in pastures. Just the occasional overturned tractor trailer (that’s a HUUUUGE lorry, to you, I guess),resulting in cattle bound for unhappy endings getting a “get out of jail free” pass, and milling around in confused circles amid the speeding interstate traffic. But that only happens once in a while. Honest. 😀
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Thanks, Marcia! Always so much fun over at your place.
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Congratulations Barb – you are free to travel the country now.
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They can’t take it back now. I’m one licensed Klingon and that road is mine.
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I’m pleased they did (a) because you’re in Glasgow and I’m in London and (b) we wouldn’t have had such a fab post. More nasally ejected coffee I’m afraid – you’re new hashtag is getting a good airing this week!
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I’ll bet I could make it to London. (Which side of M1 do I drive on again?)
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Argh no ooooooooooo
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I loved your young driving instructor with the mirror obsession and the advice to look around and swivel type head like a meerkat. Ahhh…the young…if only they knew what we could do to them while driving a vehicle and without giving a dang, they’d be much more thoroughly, terrified of riding with us.
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Right! Cause we’re older and we’ve got better insurance…
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