The atmosphere in the car crackled with hostility. (How is that for a cheesy, spy novel introduction?) I had just taken over the wheel, prepared to drive the mind-numbingly boring section. The Norwegian Artist, who, per our long understood agreement does the metro stuff and winding mountainous roads, settled in the passenger seat with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘car’
Round and Round on the Roundabout
March 8th, 2012
No Comments
Most people, when faced with a three-hour car trip, manage to do it in three hours. But what is it my mother always used to say? “You’re not like most people, dear.” And so it’s true, my latest three-hour car trip turning into five, not because of anything fun like an unexpected stop at a [...]
The Jane Austen Driving School
November 3rd, 2011
2 Comments
If Jane Austen were alive today, she would add a few more universal truths to the observation she’s known for – you know, the one about a wealthy man being in dire need of a wife. A driving Jane Austen – not an Empress-style power suit clad maiden, but a Jane Austen in the car [...]
Men Are from Mars; Women Are from Earth
August 4th, 2011
No Comments
I know that we’re not supposed to observe, much less talk about, the differences between men and women, but no place are they more obvious than behind the wheel of a car. Okay, so the bedroom runs a close second, but I don’t want to get in to, or out of, that. I was departing [...]
Heigh Ho Silver — Away! Onward, Burnt Orange!
June 30th, 2011
3 Comments
For the first time in our lives, we own a car that is not silver. Now I’m not complaining about a line of used, drab, yawningly prosaic vehicles, because I am grateful for the ability to drive 30 miles on an errand as opposed to walking it. But I bounce in raptures looking out the [...]
