I’m only 10 years late
Back in my twenties I posted a list of ”Things to Accomplish Before I Turn 30″ on my refrigerator. It was a bucket list of sorts for my footloose and fancy free years which at the time felt more like my perpetually broke and having a bad hair day years. Due to an increasingly selective memory which conveniently obscures recollection of my unaccomplished goals and the accompanying guilt that results from them, the only thing I can remember from that list is “get a driver’s license”. Yeah, and I still don’t have one so it looks like that memory slipped through the cracks…
That’s all about to change though since I am slated to take the test for my Learner’s Permit this afternoon! I’m a little nervous that I’m not well prepared enough but that’s probably just the old Virgo OCD rearing its ugly head. After all, I’ve studied the driver’s manual, taken the online prep test for Maryland (since Massachusetts doesn’t offer one!) and BW even quizzed me on the ride home last night. Granted we got off to a bit of a rocky start when he began asking questions like, “What does a trapezoid-shaped sign mean?” (Which, by the way, I’m pretty sure means a bear sat on a square sign…) but once his questioning capabilities got back on track I began to make his head spin with my righteous knowledge of the road rules.
Assuming all goes according to plan I will soon join the ranks of card carrying Massholes – just in time to celebrate my 40th birthday. I think this calls for a red velvet cake in the shape of a traffic cone with road flares sticking out of the top of it instead of candles. What do you think?
July 8, 2011 at 10:24 am
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how does one get by without a driver’s license? What do you do when asked for ID? Passport? That seems like it would be a pain to carry around.
July 8, 2011 at 10:43 am
Not a dumb question at all. One relies on public transportation,her own two feet, a State ID and friends with cars. Now that I’m no longer living in the city though a license and my own car have become a rather immediate necessity.
July 8, 2011 at 10:48 am
Well of course there’s public transportation and a lack of necessity of cars — I was just questioning what one did without the actual ID card! But I see… you have a sneaky substitute!
July 8, 2011 at 10:59 am
It’s so sneaky that it doesn’t even have an expiration date. I’ve had this particular ID for 10 years now so I guess it really is about time I reacquainted myself with the Registry.
July 8, 2011 at 10:27 am
Since you already have the requisite road rage down pat, I have no doubt you will be a swell driver. I’m curious to know if you will still use sound effects behind the wheel. Weeee!!!!
July 8, 2011 at 10:44 am
There will indeed continue to be sound effects though I will try to “curb” them during the road test.
July 8, 2011 at 10:52 am
Groan and hahahaha. You “drive” me crazy!
July 8, 2011 at 11:03 am
I wonder which bakery could create that cake…there must be one. I keep driving by a place called Cake in Lexington, but don’t believe that is what they do. I think it is a big trick to get me to stop and actually leave my car. Unlike you, I’ve had a license since I was 16, but feel like I really didn’t know how to drive until I got a car in MA.
Just have to remember, people in other states don’t know the unwritten rules, so you need to cut them some slack
July 8, 2011 at 11:10 am
That place actually does exactly what the name suggests. They create custom cakes.
http://www.cakeperiod.com/Cake/CAKE.HOME2.html
…and now I’m really hungry.
July 8, 2011 at 11:16 am
What’s the trapezoid sign for you ask?
http://www.topeka.org/pdfs/sign_shapes.pdf
July 8, 2011 at 11:17 am
That just proves my point. They really need to do a better job of keeping those bears out of recreational areas.