[Magdalen] Magdalen] gas prices?

[James Oppenheimer]

When we married, my beloved spouse didn't know how to drive.  I took her
out to teach her, and we nearly killed each other.  My mother took her out
and they had a great time. She has done so very well.  She was fearful of
driving, but I shut up for good about how she drove, and she has driven all
over. She still doesn't like to drive that much, but she will do what she
needs to.  I am so proud of her.



James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Don Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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