October 2015 Theme

[glatt]

She was practicing parking in an empty lot and slowly pulled into a spot and stepped on the brakes. Except it was the gas. So she stepped on the brakes harder, except it was the gas. She's mortified.

Car's fine other than a bunch of deep scratches on the front bumper. No damage.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Nobody hurt and minimal vehicle damage, that's cheap for a valuable lesson learned. I'm sure she won't forget it, ever, and will make an interesting story when she's in the old age home.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by glatt

She was practicing parking in an empty lot and
slowly pulled into a spot and stepped on the brakes. Except it was the gas.
So she stepped on the brakes harder, except it was the gas. She's mortified.

Car's fine other than a bunch of deep scratches on the front bumper. No damage.

My middle daughter did the same, but head-butted our tenant's van that
back-butted that tenant's boat-trailer that dumped that tenant's driftboat
that dislodged that tenant's carport support post.

Car was fine other than a bunch of deep scratches on the front bumper. No damage.

My daughter refused to get her driver's license until she was 20 or 21.

[glatt]

She kept saying that she did it to our nice car.

Our Prizm looks like crap at this point with peeling clear coat. I'd prefer that she practice with that car except it's manual transmission and she's only got about an hour of driving under her belt at this point. I'm afraid throwing manual transmission into the mix would make things that much more complicated.

So when I learned to drive, I got sent to a driving school and learned on their cars, and then after I got the basics down, my parents taught me how to drive a stick shift VW bus. In Virginia, they don't want you to go to driver's ed until after you have logged 100 hours with your parents. That seems really stupid. What if the parents teach bad habits during those hundred hours? And then there's also the issue that the parents don't have an extra brake pedal on the passenger's side of their car. Plus, I'd rather somebody else's car get fucked up when the student invariably makes mistakes.

I'm really pleased that this was such a minor incident, and that nobody got hurt, and the car is still in pretty good shape. It could have been so much worse. The tow truck driver was whooping and hollering when he pulled the car out and walked around to look at it and saw no damage. He was proud of himself.

So this is the damage. There was a chain link fence in those bushes and the fence scratched it up.

[Carruthers]

Well, this is pretty Octoberish but not having looked at the thread since it started, I'm not really sure it's what y'all wanted.

Anyway, in for a penny, in for a pound.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

I'm not really sure it's what y'all wanted.

It's beautiful - but the theme is "Unexpected".

I kept looking at the photo for the surprise.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's beautiful - but the theme is "Unexpected".

I kept looking at the photo for the surprise.

The surprise is that I actually managed to take it without making a mess of it!

The photo that is, not the theme.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Well, this is pretty Octoberish but not having looked at the thread since it started, I'm not really sure it's what y'all wanted.

It's not what I expected, so it fits the unexpected theme pretty well. Beautiful photo.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Highlight it with pink nail polish, glatt, that'll put the fear o' god into oncoming traffic.

100 Hours? Yeah, that's stupid. I think my high school driver-ed course was, after ? hours of classroom, 12 hours of on the road, 4 driving and 8 back seat driving. But I guess it was a simpler time with less variations in traffic patterns.