"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
09/10/2016 at 22:33 • Filed to: None
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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
09/10/2016 at 22:33 • Filed to: None | 4
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I was pretty certain she would hate it, and I was correct.
We took a little evening drive for some ice cream and hung out in the truck while we ate it. Afterwards I pulled into a gas station to clean the windshield before we go home and the wife says “I wanna drive it!”. She likes driving our 2010 Hyundai and other more “modern” cars. Doesn’t like driving my Volvo. I smile knowingly and toss her the keys. I warn her that the steering is fairly vague. As is the gas. And basically everything else when compared to what she’s used to.
From the moment she starts pulling away from the pump she says “Oh this was a terrible idea!” as she’s sawing away at the wheel. She managed a mostly straight line in the block she drove into our neighborhood. The entire time she keeps saying what a bad idea this was and that she’s never driving it again. I’m just laughing the whole way.
We’ll try again sometime. I’m sure she’ll get used to it.
Nothing
> Alfalfa
09/10/2016 at 22:40 |
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If my wife begged, she might drive the Cougar. But I know it would be an even worse experience. Vague manual steering, manual drums. My goal is to make a car she would feel comfortable driving, although I doubt she ever would.
shop-teacher
> Alfalfa
09/10/2016 at 23:24 |
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When my wife and I were still dating, she more or less challenged me to let her drive my ‘74 Buick Apollo. I think she thought I wouldn’t let her, because the car was too important to me or something. I’m not that way at all. It was a car. It was insured. I tossed her the keys. Four blocks later she pulled over, and said, “OK, I’m done.”
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Alfalfa
09/11/2016 at 00:24 |
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“I was pretty certain she would hate it, and I was correct.”
I’ve owned six vehicles, excluding any of my wife’s. She’s hated all of them.
You’re doing fine! :D
Wait— seven.
Tristan
> Alfalfa
09/11/2016 at 00:56 |
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My wife drive my lifted XJ to work once while I was away. She said it was terrifying even at the 45mph speed limit... That’s when I told her the speedometer was way off and she was really only doing about 30-35.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Alfalfa
09/11/2016 at 01:36 |
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Gotta love those old vehicles where the steering is more of a suggestion than a command. My 93 f150 is the same way
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Alfalfa
> Tristan
09/11/2016 at 10:05 |
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I don’t think she went above 25 the entire drive.