Divine Lunacy

Sooo… I spent an hour trying to get a trailer hitch on that truck today. One would think you could just slide the square thing into the square hole. BUT NO! If not slide, shove? No, it wouldn’t shove nor would it slide. It wouldn’t bang either… The previous owners didn’t cover up the hole. Fools. There was a lot of caked on dirt crap in there. Took me a really really long time to get it all out, but eventually, I had the hitch moving in and out of the hole freely.

I started practicing driving a standard yesterday. My dad really loves our driveway all of a sudden… He keeps on raving about how good it is to practice shifting on. Yeah great. He had me out there practicing while he was away today… I backed out of the parking spot and then I was like rolling down the driveway… I was afraid to take my foot off the brake and put on the gas for fear of stalling the thing and rolling. ( Duh… That is what the brake is for. ) Now that I think about it, I wouldn’t have gone anywhere… I would have had to turn the truck to get it into the road, but it was still pretty scary. I also had a taste of backing down part of my driveway… Let me tell you, that is a pain in the ass… ( and the neck ) And it would have been my ass had I hit any of my mother’s plants… Damned spartan truck. Makes me cry. I am soo used to driving my parents Subarus. It is harder trying to get out of mud with only two wheels. I could have shifted into 4 wheel drive, but I was already going crazy trying to manage an extra pedal, let alone an extra shift.

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