Thursday, November 10, 2005

Admitting it is the First Step

A confession.

I’m a bad driver.

Which is not to say that I am an unsafe driver. No, I’m not an unsafe driver. I’ve been in a few accidents, one of which put me in the hospital for a few months and almost killed me, but none of them were my fault. Well, OK that one time when I was driving Lisa Trepanier’s bug when I was 19 and we slide into the back of that guy. Yeah, I’ll take responsibility for that one. Fine. But mostly, I’ve been safe.

Anyway, my point is this. It’s pretty hard to admit that you aren’t Michael Schumacher.

But I now realize that while I’m generally still a pretty safe driver, I am NOT a great driver. Reha says I drive far too slowly on the freeway, but that’s just an example of my exemplary safety consciousness, right? She also thinks I drive too fast in parking lots, but she’s just WRONG about that. I’m sticking to that one, dang it.

I’ve come to this realization because of this one simple fact. People who ride in my car tend to end up car sick. I drive a manual transmission car and I push the
accelerator too deep and tend to jerk the car back and forth. Plus, there’s a possibility that I might brake poorly.

First time Jonah rode in my car he puked in the back seat. And he has puked or gotten sick in my car about five times. Now, he has a bit of an oversensitive tummy, but there have been others as well who express feelings of nausea that miraculously pass once they get out of my passenger seat. It’s so bad that I have him sit in the front, even though he really should be in the back for safety reasons.

Plus, my car only has 45K miles on it and I need a new clutch. That can’t be good, right?

Will I try and change the error of my ways? Well, yeah, if only so I don’t have to clean any more puke off the seats.

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