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January 21, 2009

Letter of apology

Dear person in the black car,

I would just like to extend my sincerest apologies for laughing at you yesterday.  Because I did.  Hard.  And I realize today that it was not very compassionate or kind of me.

In my defence it WAS pretty funny that you kept stalling at every intersection…four times in a row.  I understand that you were probably learning to drive a standard car and that it is not the easiest skill to learn (this is precisely the reason I have never learned, which makes it even worse that I was laughing at all).  But…I’m thinking that possibly the best place to learn would be on some side streets where you don’t hold up traffic at every light.  Just a thought.  

Obviously I’m no expert when it comes to this, but this would be my two cents on the subject.

Sincerely,

Girl doubled over howling in the grey car beside you.   

9 Comments »

  1. Erin you are hilarious! That is totally something i would do.I can’t drive standard either,and have no desire to learn.It’s too much work ;)
    I never comment on blogs,but this made me laugh.

    Comment by Janet — January 21, 2009 @ 7:09 pm

  2. :) It took me 2 blocks to control myself. I had other people looking at me weird because I was doubled over my steering wheel, laughing by myself. Ah…I’m so nice.

    Comment by erin — January 21, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

  3. That is leg slappin hilarious Erin! I even laughed out loud reading that… props for him/her takin a chance on a main street though!!

    Comment by PamJ — January 21, 2009 @ 9:30 pm

  4. That was me and I hat you.

    Comment by Anonymous — January 21, 2009 @ 11:05 pm

  5. Anonymous…funny unless it’s really you.

    Comment by Nadine — January 22, 2009 @ 9:02 am

  6. Too funny!!

    I didn’t know that you don’t know how to drive standard, its never to late to learn ;)

    Comment by Louise — January 22, 2009 @ 9:33 am

  7. Boy, you have patience! I would have been more annoyed than amused. :)

    Comment by Jen H — January 22, 2009 @ 1:21 pm

  8. I’ll teach you how to drive standard! In Norway you have to take your driver’s test on standard, if not it will say on your license that you can only drive automatic…
    :)

    Comment by Elin — January 22, 2009 @ 2:34 pm

  9. When learning to drive standard, I stalled 20 times right by my high school with my car pool in the car with me and half the school saw me. It was so embarrassing, so I feel for that person!

    Comment by Elleah — January 22, 2009 @ 3:39 pm

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