*sigh* I'm loosing my touch. (Warning: Hi-jacked by Em)

[sourland]

Oh.

 

[Spookwriter]

Most excellent job, Tani !!!

And I can certainly understand the first attempt. Hard to
drive with a bucket on your head. You WERE wearing your
bucket, right?

(Elders : We need to have a discussion about perhaps allowing
Tani to remove her bucket while driving. Perhaps a nice helmet?)

Like Sourman, it didn't take long for the Spook to get a ticket. For
doing wheelstands in town. I had more car than I needed.

Oh...and you gotta get a cool scarf, like Snoopy and the Red Baron.

Spook

 

[Bunnylady]

I took Driver's Ed under one of the most openly chauvinistic men I've ever met (a lot of it was leg pulling, but still . . .) Actually, he delighted in making anyone uncomfortable, and was fond of randomly calling on people to answer questions while teaching. (It was a small, mostly rural school; he was related to a lot of the students). One day, he threw a question at one of the guys about what some part of the car engine did. He got a blank look in response. He asked another guy - same blank look. Then he asked me, and I told him (having a dad and a bro that did their own minor car repairs). A bit later, he asked about another engine part, same thing happened - 2 blank looks from 2 different guys, asked me, I told him. He looked at me in open mouthed astonishment. "Gentlemen," he said. "I want you all to pay attention. You are looking at the world's first woman mechanic!"

He quit asking me questions after that.

I didn't actually get my Driver's License until I was in college. My mother drove me down to the DMV office, where she waited while I took the test driving her Ford Pinto. We went through the whole test, and were heading back when there was a loud SNAP sound from under the hood, and the engine died (turns out the timing belt broke). I steered the car into a parking space on the side of the road, where of course it refused to start. Finally, we locked the car and walked the few blocks back. "Well, if it's any consolation, you passed," the test administrator said. "Thanks," I told him. "I'm just hoping my mother isn't facing a window. She'll have a heart attack if she sees us walking up!" When we walked in, Mom greeted me with a bright, "Well, how'd it go?" "Um, Mom? I've got good news, and bad news . . . ."

 

[Spookwriter]

Spook got kicked out of drivers ed.

Summer school and I just didn't go. And paid for it
in the end. Went my whole senior year for that 1/2
credit. Had I of passed drivers ed, I would of graduated
in my junior year.

So I did drivers ed in a three day AAA course. Been driving
since I was a young boy. By 16, I was driving tractor-trailers,
running dozers.

Teaching my daughter to drive now...yesterday and today
matter of fact. She'll turn 13 in October.

Spook

 

[Tanichca]

Most excellent job, Tani !!!

And I can certainly understand the first attempt. Hard to
drive with a bucket on your head. You WERE wearing your
bucket, right?

(Elders : We need to have a discussion about perhaps allowing
Tani to remove her bucket while driving. Perhaps a nice helmet?)

Like Sourman, it didn't take long for the Spook to get a ticket. For
doing wheelstands in town. I had more car than I needed.

Oh...and you gotta get a cool scarf, like Snoopy and the Red Baron.

Spook

Um... yes? I was most certainly and without a doubt wearing a bucket, oh yes indeed.

Maybe this is because Spook and Sour are, for all their good points, still men. You male types tend to be more reckless anyway. My grandpa is 94 and still drives like a maniac! The only reason cops don't pull him over is because of his POW and Veteran stickers.

I have several scarves, most made of italian lace, though one is silk. I'll look more dashing than any cartoon beagle or pizza box ever could!

 

[Yessur Ebob]

Good job Tani!

 

[JD4570]

Alright! Congrats Tani!

I can just see you behind the wheel now. Wait a minute, behind the wheel?!?

Just kidding, just kidding! Have fun, just not too much fun driving.

 

[eenie114]

Um... yes? I was most certainly and without a doubt wearing a bucket, oh yes indeed.

Maybe this is because Spook and Sour are, for all their good points, still men. You male types tend to be more reckless anyway. My grandpa is 94 and still drives like a maniac! The only reason cops don't pull him over is because of his POW and Veteran stickers.

I have several scarves, most made of italian lace, though one is silk. I'll look more dashing than any cartoon beagle or pizza box ever could!

First and foremost, thank him for us.

Yeah, what is it with males and their driving? I could retell stories the Comrade has told me about his friends, but they might endanger those of us with pacemakers.

 

[Spookwriter]

Hang on Snoopy !!!

If Spooks had a neck, I would so want a scarf. There's
some Charlie Brown in all of us. (in me, for sure)

Tani...I'm going to tell you something REAL important. So
write this down.

Do not attempt to run from the cops. It makes them mad.

As I said, my first car ran pretty stout. And I might of had a little
trouble with speeding. Liked to feel my sheet blowing in the wind.
Cop setting there with radar, he couldn't catch me from a standing
start. Never knewhow fast that car could really go. Speedometer
stopped at 160. Then it just buried the needle.

I ran one time too many, they finally got my plate.

Car was registered to my mother.

State Patrol came to the house that evening to arrest my MOM.

Yep...I was in real trouble.

Mom didn't get arrested. I would of been better off if she had. Mom
and Dad took my car and about beat me death. The judge, he took
my license for 90 days.

My friends were all laughing because I was riding my bicycle...

That was a hard summer on me.

That was a long time ago. Back when cop cars had great big lights
on top. You could see them for a long ways off. Now they all have
these short low-profile lights, makes them harder to see.

Spook...who finally learned to drive right. (got tired of paying tickets)


*** Don't drive like the Spook***

 

[Tanichca]

Hang on Snoopy !!!

If Spooks had a neck, I would so want a scarf. There's
some Charlie Brown in all of us. (in me, for sure)

Tani...I'm going to tell you something REAL important. So
write this down.

Do not attempt to run from the cops. It makes them mad.

As I said, my first car ran pretty stout. And I might of had a little
trouble with speeding. Liked to feel my sheet blowing in the wind.
Cop setting there with radar, he couldn't catch me from a standing
start. Never knewhow fast that car could really go. Speedometer
stopped at 160. Then it just buried the needle.

I ran one time too many, they finally got my plate.

Car was registered to my mother.

State Patrol came to the house that evening to arrest my MOM.

Yep...I was in real trouble.

Mom didn't get arrested. I would of been better off if she had. Mom
and Dad took my car and about beat me death. The judge, he took
my license for 90 days.

My friends were all laughing because I was riding my bicycle...

That was a hard summer on me.

That was a long time ago. Back when cop cars had great big lights
on top. You could see them for a long ways off. Now they all have
these short low-profile lights, makes them harder to see.

Spook...who finally learned to drive right. (got tired of paying tickets)


*** Don't drive like the Spook***

It's such a Spook thing to do.