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I always complain to George about how I hate driving.
It’s not just a random hate: for most of my adult life, I have lived in cities where public transportation was the norm and/or urban sprawl (or lack thereof?) allowed you to simply walk/bike everywhere. I’m used to that; I like it that way. The transition to the U.S. hasn’t been a simple one for many reasons, that being one of the more important ones.
Additionally, most of my adult life I never even OWNED a car… and the short time that I did own one (before now), ended in it being totaled. By a horse. I wasn’t driving. I swear.
It hasn’t helped to live in a city where the vast majority of the diurnal drivers are retirees (who shouldn’t be driving) and soccer moms talking on their cell phones (who SHOULDN’T BE DRIVING, PULL OVER AND TALK, PLEASE, I AM FINE WITH YOU TAKING YOUR LIFE INTO YOUR OWN HANDS BUT NOT MINE). After witnessing how these drivers treat pedestrians and bikers, how they are incapable of driving in rain (folks, we’re in the subtropics, it rains a LOT, learn to drive in the rain or gtfo), the lack of their ability to YIELD WHEN I HAVE PREFERENCE causing me to, more often that I’d like, slam on my horn, and watching a distracted lady use the suicide lane inappropriately and get RAMMED by a FedEx truck, I was more than ready to hang my keys and say adieu to driving.
But you can’t really do that, in suburbia, can you?
Today I rediscovered the joy of driving.
For this, I’d like to thank today’s bright, sunshine-y day, Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, Boots & Boys, and Blah Blah Blah (yes, I listen to Ke$ha, I can if I want 
), and driving fast. Really fast.
I think I need a radar detector.
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I use my horn. Liberally. I cannot stand idiots on the road. But I DO love those days when I’m driving on Lake Shore Drive with the wind in my hair, the sunlight shining down, and good music. ahhh.
and um, a HORSE? That sounds like a blog-worthy story.
Sho, you don’t remember?!
http://fresita.livejournal.com/133613.html
The weather has been nice. Enjoying the driving might be a byproduct of increased levels of Vitamin D improving mood?
It’s probably a healthy combo of Vitamin D AND enjoying driving. But you’re definitely right: I’m not much of a fan of ANYTHING when it’s dark and dreary (and cold).
The teacher who works next door to me was telling me that her twin daughters went to high school with that Ke$ha chick (here in B’wood, TN). I didn’t know who she was until I looked her up – guess I’m getting old!
She’s from Brentwood?! Shoot, isn’t that like 20 miles from where you guys grew up? That’s nuts.
I’m getting old, too. I didn’t know who she was until a few weeks ago.
Just wait til we get you on a track.
Sho, she did blog about it on LJ. It was a dramatic and memorable post with, if I recall correctly, a gruesome picture of a mangled yellow sports car from which, by the Grace of GOD, she emerged alive.
And Yoye, from someone who has gotten 4 tickets in 7 months, often for just driving a car that looks fast, not necessarily going that fast, I do recommend you take some precautions. As I recall G had an entertaining radar detector…..
Four tickets, Atoosa?! That’s crazy!
George’s old radar detector died, but we found an even better one for a great price on Craigslist. If we find one equally well-priced, I’ll get one, but it’s not in the budget yet. For now, I’m pretty obedient of the speed limits, except where the roads are clear and a state trooper would be quite visible.
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Ke$ha is so overplayed here. I am beyond tired of her. However I do love car singing.
Also, it’s illegal to talk on your cell phone while driving in Saskatchewan. Move here!