Something I had forgotten about...

I had the opportunity to drive a standard car last weekend for the first time in what seems like ages... it had easily been several years, tho I'm unclear as to the details, but whatever... it very much ended up like riding a bike.

If you're wondering why, I have entered into a reciprocal agreement with a bandmate of mine, wherein I drove to Kincardine, where I proceeded to enjoy the festivities, and she got to drive my car, complete with my drunken ass riding shotgun, home.

Unfortunately, that meant that my turn to drive home from Chatham requried that I remain quite sober, while she and another bandmate we had given a ride to got to enjoy all that the Chatham beer tent has to offer.

Knowing what I know now, I'd have taken the Chatham beer tent over the Kincardine one, but having always driven home from Kincardine, I had never really experienced it.... and so my choice was made.

Anyway, the point of this post was the thinly veiled self-congratulatory diatribe about how I managed to drive her standard all the way home just fine... never even coming close to stalling. Ignoring the fact that it's next to impossible to stall on the highway.

I guess it was also quite the test of mutual trust, as both vehicles are somewhat new (mine being from just before Easter, and hers being slightly newer)... but we both managed to make the respective vehicle owners quite comfortable riding shotgun in their own cars.

Probably the other point is that I completely forgot how much fun standard cars are. Honestly... going back to mine felt ever so slightly like driving a Go-Cart for a couple of days.

But I got over it.... :)