The day hadn’t really started off well anyway. I’d woken up with a tweaked back, barely able to stand, so I had scheduled an emergency chiropractor visit and taken Edward to church with me so that I could work on music sorting and planning, and he could spread toys all over the choir room. It […]
Category Archives: Car
How to Survive a 9 Hour Car Trip With Children
Do you know what I used to hate? Cars with DVD players in them. I thought, what terrible parents would let their kids watch TV and/or movies on car trips, thus melting their brains and making them boring and stupid? What a loss to culture and society if the next generation of children does not […]
My Car Got Broken Into
My car got broken into. And by “broken into” I mean that Edward unlocked one of the doors on his way out and I didn’t catch it, so nothing was actually broken. They just opened up the back door and helped themselves to my stuff. And it happened right in my parking lot outside of […]
The Speedometer or the GPS?
While driving back and forth to the Yellow Barn Music Festival rehearsals last week, I noticed something strange about my speed. Since it was an almost 3 hour trip, 95% of which was on the highway, I had set the cruise control to somewhere just over the speed limit and was not really thinking about […]
Driverless Cars
As I was flipping through the DVR this morning looking for episodes of “The Doodlebops,” the news was playing in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and it was telling me about driverless cars. According to the news, they are working on vehicles that need minimal human input in a variety of situations. […]
The Standard Force
We finally got a new car. Well, not a new new car, but we did sell the old broken one and picked up a less old, less broken one. The new car is a little different from the ex-vehicle. For one thing it has all of its mirrors intact. Also, the seat belts work and […]
Please Pull Over So I Can Explain
Okay, so I was driving home last night and I pulled onto the interstate a few exits north of my house. I got on in a small section in which the speed limit is 55 mph, though almost all of the interstate highways in Vermont have 65 mph limits. Wanting to go fast, but also […]
The Life and Times of Claudia Devilfish
Shortly after my wife and I were married, we had what we called the month of the three “C”s. In that month, we acquired a cat, a car, and a computer. The computer was replaced years ago, the cat is still around here somewhere, but the car we sold yesterday. And if you asked me […]
Bouncing Off A Truck
Yesterday morning I checked the weather forecast and was told that there was a chance of some snow flurries and probably a lot of wind. At noon, they had issued a wind warning and said that maybe we would get an inch of snow. By the time I left for work it was snowing pretty […]
The Five Stages of Owning a Car
1) Denial – “I love this car.” “This is a great car!” “I am so happy to have bought this particular car!” – Denial is a temporary stage that one enters when one initially buys the car. There is a feeling of false happiness, and hope that this car will be better than the last […]