[Magdalen] Magdalen] gas prices?

[Don Boyd]

My department head at my first teaching job frequently had to leave the 
office to take his wife or their school-age son somewhere because she didn't 
know how to drive.  He did all the grocery shopping, took all the washhing 
to the laundromat, did everything that required driving.  (I don't know for 
sure why he didn't drive her to and from the grocery store or the 
laundromat, but I believe that the rationale was that one of them had to 
stay with their son.)

One day I asked one of the other assistant profs how that situation came 
about.  "Well," I was told, "after they first got married, Steve, who had 
assumed that she had simply left her car at home while attending college, 
learned that she actually didn't know how to drive.

"He set out to teach her.  After a basic orientation, he chose a straight 
rural road with little or no traffic and had her practice starting and 
stopping.  That went well enough, so he let her try steering the car. 
Starting went fine, shifting went fine, and then things went all to hell. 
She veered off the road toward a large pine tree.  'Watch out for that pine 
tree," he shouted, 'Watch Out For That Pine Tree,"  'WATCH OUT FOR THAT DAMN 
PINE T*****'  (crash).

"'You cursed me,' said the offended lady, and never ever again would sit 
behind the steering wheel of that or any of their subsequently-owned cars."




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
To: <Cantor03 at aol.com>; <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Magdalen] gas prices?


> >a car.  She had obviously driven a car at some point in her life, but 
> >not
>
> My grandmother's first cousin, Elizabeth -- ceased driving after an 
> accident in which her sister was killed while Elizabeth was at the wheel. 
> More than 50 years later, when her husband died, she took up driving 
> again, and did all right . . .
>
> Cheers,
> Jim