Scary thoughts in my head
03-10-07, 02:46 PM
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Scary thoughts in my head
Took my wife and my baby girl to the Toyota dealership to pick up the family SUV Highlander after some minor servicing. The plan was that my wife would drive the SUV home. For some reason she wanted to drive my ES350 home. Now she has never driven in this car, and has never paid attention when I drove it. First thing she asked was, where do i insert the key to start ignition? 
I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.
I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.
03-10-07, 03:32 PM
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Took my wife and my baby girl to the Toyota dealership to pick up the family SUV Highlander after some minor servicing. The plan was that my wife would drive the SUV home. For some reason she wanted to drive my ES350 home. Now she has never driven in this car, and has never paid attention when I drove it. First thing she asked was, where do i insert the key to start ignition? I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.
I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.Last edited by LexBob2; 03-10-07 at 03:36 PM.
03-10-07, 07:35 PM
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Took my wife and my baby girl to the Toyota dealership to pick up the family SUV Highlander after some minor servicing. The plan was that my wife would drive the SUV home. For some reason she wanted to drive my ES350 home. Now she has never driven in this car, and has never paid attention when I drove it. First thing she asked was, where do i insert the key to start ignition? I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.
I really didn't want her driving an unfamiliar car with the baby in the back seat. She insisted she wanted to drive home... I was not in the mood to fightl.... so I briefed her on the basics.... "just drive it like a camry, and dont touch the console!!" As she was driving off, I was thinking, "wait....did i forget to show her how to unlock the parking brake?" then i remembered I didnt lock it when she took over. whew... then I thought, "wait... if i didnt lock the parking brake, and didnt mention to her, would she step on it again thinking it would unlock but in reality that locks the brake?" No....she wouldn't do that....that would be utterly stupid... i mean if your parking brake were on, you can't drive the car for more than a few feet before feeling the resistance right? But then I remembered the time she had a parking ticket on her windshield for 48 hours and didn't notice it after driving to work and back on 2 separate days. Damn.... my baby was in the car too...what if she got confused by some switches in the car, and got into an accident? I was getting really antsy as I waited for my SUV. I signed the receipt and dashed home. My car was still in one piece...my baby is napping on her bed. Whew...I guess it was all in my head.
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