Scary!

[Here's Fanny!]

I got nostaligic for the old Rambler Classic last night. Unlike lb, I used to change cars like underwear but I also have pictures of most of them.

Maybe Peekaboo Fanny's successor will have to use my old cars as avatars. To be changed every 500 posts. Ha!

I don't think I even have a picture of my car. I had to find one like it on Google.....

When it quits running, or it gets so junked up that I can't get in it anymore, I'll get a new one....

lb13

Ha! When I looked at it, I thought 'wow, lb sure keeps his car clean. There must be a car wash next to Mecca'.

[ghostjmf]

Here's Fanny! says:

Ah, the good old manual! I had a terrible time, being left handed and dyslexic to boot. I kept wanting to shift with my left hand which totally mixed up which foot went on which pedal.

I'm left handed & somewhat dyslexic (mostly for road directions) but had no trouble at all learning how to drive standard (well, I had trouble not stalling between neutral & 1st on the VW I learned standard on, having already learned to drive "at all" on an automatic, but those bugs stalled easily; it wasn't a lexia thing) nor driving standard in England. I really expected to have trouble in England with all the controls reversed etc, but didn't. What I did have trouble with was exits off the road into driveways to businesses; I very often wound up going in on what was really the "out" driveway. Urp.

[littlebeast13]

I got nostaligic for the old Rambler Classic last night. Unlike lb, I used to change cars like underwear but I also have pictures of most of them.

Maybe Peekaboo Fanny's successor will have to use my old cars as avatars. To be changed every 500 posts. Ha!

I don't think I even have a picture of my car. I had to find one like it on Google.....

When it quits running, or it gets so junked up that I can't get in it anymore, I'll get a new one....

lb13

Ha! When I looked at it, I thought 'wow, lb sure keeps his car clean. There must be a car wash next to Mecca'.

There is a car wash next to Mecca, but it's self serve. I don't do that. I run it through the automatic wash by where I get my hernia jug of Pepsi about once a month or so....

I actually tried to wax it once 4 years ago. It was the result of a week's worth of vacation from work boredom.....

lb13

[tanstaafl2]

for me a red 1963 Beetle, practicing on dirt roads

I also learned to drive a stick in an old red VW Bug, although I don't recall the year. As another driving student of the sinister persuasion it was certainly a challenge especially since my father insisted I learn to use my right hand to shift.

One nice thing though was that on the old VW Beetles as long as you more or less decelerated the clutch, while helpful, was generally optional!

Not a lot of moving parts on those cars...

[dodgersteve182]

PSM said, "She did better than I expected, but still it was scary! I can't imagine doing it in a car with a manual transmission. "

Sometimes the stick shift can actually be an aid, especially as we get older....

[SportsFan68]

SteelersFanSis learned to drive in Colorado. Her learning experince with SteelersFanSr in da Burgh was terrible, involving a small accident with a parking barrier and a fit from SFSr, and she started taking the bus to nursing school, shopping, etc. Then she flew out to Colorado on break, and SteelersFan made her drive somewhere every afternoon when he got home from work. Sometimes they'd drive over to the next town for dinner, sometimes over to the mall or grocery store, sometimes no particular destination.

This is how I imagine it went, more or less, although SF talks and looks nothing like Toni, of course.

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[NellyLunatic1980]

First car I ever drove was a 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

[LarryCraig]

She did better than I expected, but still it was scary! I can't imagine doing it in a car with a manual transmission.

I've done it only in cars with manual transmission because I have to grab the gearshaft when I...

Oh, you were talking about teaching your kid to drive.

Never mind!

[VAdame]

We are going to stay in the parking lot for a few months. She won't get her permit for 6 months. I want her to be comfortable with the car before she is out on the open road.

Around here, the traditional place to take the kids for first driving lessons is the cemetery!

Think about it -- they have roads, but not much traffic, and whatever traffic there is probably won't be going more than 10 MPH! In my part of town, Calvary Cemetery is the place to go -- it's huge & has nice winding roads, intersections, hills, etc. It's considered polite to wait until late afternoon/early evening (after the hours when actual burials are taking place!) But any time you visit, you're likely to see a car or 2 driving aimlessly around with a teenager at the wheel and an adult in the passenger seat. I don't know if this is the tradition in other cities -- but look around your own cemeteries & see if you notice any driving lessons going on!

Once when Karen was first learning, I took her (in the truck, yet!) to Homewood Cemetery -- which is even more huge than Calvary -- and we actually got lost

[ulysses5019]

We are going to stay in the parking lot for a few months. She won't get her permit for 6 months. I want her to be comfortable with the car before she is out on the open road.

Around here, the traditional place to take the kids for first driving lessons is the cemetery!

Think about it -- they have roads, but not much traffic, and whatever traffic there is probably won't be going more than 10 MPH! In my part of town, Calvary Cemetery is the place to go -- it's huge & has nice winding roads, intersections, hills, etc. It's considered polite to wait until late afternoon/early evening (after the hours when actual burials are taking place!) But any time you visit, you're likely to see a car or 2 driving aimlessly around with a teenager at the wheel and an adult in the passenger seat. I don't know if this is the tradition in other cities -- but look around your own cemeteries & see if you notice any driving lessons going on!

Once when Karen was first learning, I took her (in the truck, yet!) to Homewood Cemetery -- which is even more huge than Calvary -- and we actually got lost

That's probably where marley learned.

[MarleysGh0st]

We are going to stay in the parking lot for a few months. She won't get her permit for 6 months. I want her to be comfortable with the car before she is out on the open road.

Around here, the traditional place to take the kids for first driving lessons is the cemetery!

Think about it -- they have roads, but not much traffic, and whatever traffic there is probably won't be going more than 10 MPH! In my part of town, Calvary Cemetery is the place to go -- it's huge & has nice winding roads, intersections, hills, etc. It's considered polite to wait until late afternoon/early evening (after the hours when actual burials are taking place!) But any time you visit, you're likely to see a car or 2 driving aimlessly around with a teenager at the wheel and an adult in the passenger seat. I don't know if this is the tradition in other cities -- but look around your own cemeteries & see if you notice any driving lessons going on!

Once when Karen was first learning, I took her (in the truck, yet!) to Homewood Cemetery -- which is even more huge than Calvary -- and we actually got lost

That's probably where marley learned.

Well, you must admit that it would impress students with the grave responsibilities of driving!

[lilclyde54]

The Baboo's grandaughter is in the second stage of our 3 step licensure process. Baboo let's her drive home from school when she picks them up. Knowing her (B) penchant for speeding tickets, I wonder about the student driver picking up bad habits.

[elwoodblues]

First car I ever drove was a 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

I also had a '79 Cutlass. It was a good car and lasted a long time. But I'm older than you, so mine was new when I got it.

[hermillion]

My dad was a long-distance trucker when I was growing up in California. Since we made at least one annual trek to OK to visit the grandparents, and Dad was frequently on the road and unable to go with -- Mom started teaching me to drive when I was 12, so I could help her on the long road trips. When I took driver's ed. at 15 1/2, the lessons were in a Ford Galaxie, just like the one my folks had. It kind of freaked out the instructor when I could drive -- and change the radio station or set the air conditioner at the same time, without looking at the controls .

When I turned 16, my parents bought a used 1967 Datsun 510 sedan for me to drive until I went to college, at which time my brother inherited it. Red, with AM radio, air conditioning, and a stick shift. Baby, I was some hot stuff! I loved that car. Daddy and I kept it tuned to within an inch of its life, and I regularly beat the doors off the local teenage boys in their "muscle" cars.

My brother destroyed my Baby Car before I even got home for Christmas of my freshman year. It's been almost 40 years and I still haven't forgiven him.

[Here's Fanny!]

My brother destroyed my Baby Car before I even got home for Christmas of my freshman year. It's been almost 40 years and I still haven't forgiven him.

My brother wrapped my 67 Cougar (the inaugural model year for the Cougar!) around a telephone pole after he took my keys while I was asleep. He had to do the work to fix it and pay for it himself (took him a while to do it, but he paid me and my Dad back all we'd fronted). I still have to remind him of it at least every other time he's home.

Did I mention that he was about 14 at the time?

I have a picture of him on a creeper doing the work. I need to scan that for avatar purposes.

[Bob Juch]

My brother destroyed my Baby Car before I even got home for Christmas of my freshman year. It's been almost 40 years and I still haven't forgiven him.

My brother wrapped my 67 Cougar (the inaugural model year for the Cougar!) around a telephone pole after he took my keys while I was asleep. He had to do the work to fix it and pay for it himself (took him a while to do it, but he paid me and my Dad back all we'd fronted). I still have to remind him of it at least every other time he's home.

Did I mention that he was about 14 at the time?

I have a picture of him on a creeper doing the work. I need to scan that for avatar purposes.

Ouch! I put a telephone pole though my '68 Cougar all by myself while avoiding a bozo who turned onto the highway right in front of me.

[Beebs52]

My great good thoughts and prayers go out to you.

I remember sitting in the back seat, while Jeff sat in the front, during the parking lot forays for both boys. I felt as if my skin was going to curl up and detach itself from my body, I was so skeeved out about the whole thing. I actually had to stand by a pylon once watching them.

Now, please drive me about kiddos. I'm your old ma.

[ulysses5019]

My great good thoughts and prayers go out to you.

I remember sitting in the back seat, while Jeff sat in the front, during the parking lot forays for both boys. I felt as if my skin was going to curl up and detach itself from my body, I was so skeeved out about the whole thing. I actually had to stand by a pylon once watching them.

Now, please drive me about kiddos. I'm your old ma.

They used you as a pylon?

[Beebs52]

My great good thoughts and prayers go out to you.

I remember sitting in the back seat, while Jeff sat in the front, during the parking lot forays for both boys. I felt as if my skin was going to curl up and detach itself from my body, I was so skeeved out about the whole thing. I actually had to stand by a pylon once watching them.

Now, please drive me about kiddos. I'm your old ma.

They used you as a pylon?

Why, yes. Yes, they did. And they only skimmed me twice. I didn't need those calves anyway.