{"id":2155,"date":"2015-11-16T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:45:42","slug":"sixteen-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/sixteen-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Write a bit about your drivers\u2019 licence. How old were you, where did you get it? What kind of car did you drive?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fifteen, driving my grandfather\u2019s Ford, because I was nervous about stalling out my dad\u2019s manual transmission Jeep. I probably would have been fine, but i was freaked out about the rumor that you\u2019d automatically fail if you stalled….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i had a much longer entry written about this, but I managed to lose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the day after a tropical storm had strewn the course with limbs. Because of that, the trooper didn\u2019t make me parallel park (which might have been something I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do in a somewhat-unfamilar car).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a bit odd, because I\u2019d had no formal behind-the-wheel training. My dad was still in the Army, and I\u2019d taken drivers\u2019 ed in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I basically stopped driving in late 2012. After hitting some road debris, pretty seriously damaging my car, and having the ability to work from home, I stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that point, I really couldn\u2019t read the speedometer much of the time, so I was setting my speed by the sound of the engine, and the gear I was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried again towards the end of that year, and I couldn\u2019t make out traffic lights against green backgrounds 9think a light with a tree behind it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damn you, optic neuritis. http:\/\/www.mult-sclerosis.org\/opticneuritis.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also getting to the point where I\u2019d often hit the brake when I was hitting the clutch. Some of that was due to the car I owned, which had rather narrow spacing between the pedals, but……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019m home, I rarely miss driving; I can get pretty much everywhere I want to go by public transportation. When I\u2019m away for this job, however, I\u2019m basically a shut-in. I can\u2019t go anywhere once I\u2019m at work. Where I work, I can\u2019t even get a cab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019m at my mother\u2019s house, I can get a taxi, but it\u2019s expensive.
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Write a bit about your drivers\u2019 licence. How old were you, where did you get it? What kind of car did you drive? I was fifteen, driving my grandfather\u2019s Ford, because I was nervous about stalling out my dad\u2019s manual transmission Jeep. I probably would have been fine, but i was freaked out about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}