Pauline didn’t learn to drive until the summer of her 81st year. It was the same year her husband died, and since he had driven them everywhere, she decided that it was time. It’s not like she hadn’t attempted to learn to operate a vehicle, she had. When she was much younger her husband tried to teach her. It ended with her purposely driving their Ford station wagon, passenger side down into a ditch, and hollering, “You always gotta be right, well go to hell, Al!” As she jumped to the ground from the hovering driver’s seat, she had the presence of mind to take the keys, which she flung as far as she could into the woods of Cherry Street Extension.
Welcome to Six Sentence Stories: the cue is Right.
Recording Life Under the radar 
Frist. And isn’t Pauline a pistol? Love the Ford Woody visual to go with the story.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is a great ad isnt it! I love old advertising.
LikeLike
Wonderful!! I adore her! I bet she got the hang of it just fine at 81! This brought back memories of me teaching my younger sister to drive on the lake roads near the cabin we had there. When it came to driving up a hill she panicked and jumped out of the car, running ahead up the hill, and leaving me to follow with the car. We laugh about it still. 🙂
LikeLike
Were you the passenger when she jumped out!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep! Thankfully she put it in park before she jumped, but I was still mad at her for chickening out. We laugh about it now though.
LikeLike
tell me that this is at least, somewhere in part autobiographical (by association or actuality). lol
LikeLike
Mom and Dad had some wild times.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Her husband was probably afraid for her to get behind the wheel after that!
LikeLiked by 1 person
She never even tried again until she was in her eighties
LikeLike
There must thousands of tales of learner drivers doing the unpredictable. My wife feeling it was all too much to take took her hands off the steering wheel relinquishing all responsibility for the car from that moment on.
LikeLike
CLASSIC!
LikeLike
This is SO Good, wish I’d thought to use Pauline’s technique when I was 16…no matter, I still don’t drive and have never regretted it. One less crazy driver on the road.
LikeLike
WEll Paul didnt learn until her 80s so theres still time to change your mind I suspect.
LikeLike
Too costly for my $809/mo disability check 🙂
LikeLike