Car's in the shop.
Oct. 6th, 2002 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynMaking evil exhaust noises, plus it's due for an oil change. Not looking forward to the bill, but I'll survive; my sister's VW is available for driving.
Funny... I forgot how to ride a bicycle when I was a kid. Seriously. I learned in the fall, then came winter, and come spring - WHAM. Couldn't balance to save my life. I had to have my friends re-teach me, and I wouldn't be able to get anywhere unless I started from the top of some incline or other. I eventually relearned and have been okay since, but it doesn't change the fact that I forgot how to ride a bicycle... and it doesn't explain at all the fact that, despite not having done so for anything other than backing out of the driveway or pulling into the driveway in THREE YEARS, I remember how to drive stick. The VW is a stick-shift Golf, and I tested myself out with it today - around the block, down to the cul-de-sac, up the big hill, down to the supermarket and drugstore, then home. Yup. It works, I work, all's good.
Forgot the bike, remembered the car. How bloody odd. At least this doesn't happen with my rollerblades.
Funny... I forgot how to ride a bicycle when I was a kid. Seriously. I learned in the fall, then came winter, and come spring - WHAM. Couldn't balance to save my life. I had to have my friends re-teach me, and I wouldn't be able to get anywhere unless I started from the top of some incline or other. I eventually relearned and have been okay since, but it doesn't change the fact that I forgot how to ride a bicycle... and it doesn't explain at all the fact that, despite not having done so for anything other than backing out of the driveway or pulling into the driveway in THREE YEARS, I remember how to drive stick. The VW is a stick-shift Golf, and I tested myself out with it today - around the block, down to the cul-de-sac, up the big hill, down to the supermarket and drugstore, then home. Yup. It works, I work, all's good.
Forgot the bike, remembered the car. How bloody odd. At least this doesn't happen with my rollerblades.
