Re: Getting our stuff back

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:27:47 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

 On 6/22/2025 10:38 AM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:52:57 -0500,
   sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

  She told me she wanted to go see the son tomorrow, so I had
  her drive it home from the drop off place to see if she
  could handle it.  First time she has ever driven my truck
  in 14 years.  I didn't like it.

 
I thought she had done a little driving when you were in the
Utah boonies?  Maybe I'm mixing you up with another poster
here.

 
 That was her daily driver, the Ford Bronco.  I drive a Ford
 F-150 which she had never driven before.  It's a much bigger
 vehicle than what she is used to so my big concern is her
 forgetting the rear axle and running over curbs, kids, or
 grandma.  I've got a driveway that is 25' wide at the street. 
 Yet just about everyone who pulls into the driveway can't seem
 to manage to stay off the grass when making a right hand turn.
 Drives me nuts.  I've told my MIL it was a good thing there
 wasn't a kid standing there as she's gone over 6' in the grass
 and would have killed the poor thing.

Oh, that all makes sense about the vehicles.  To the other point,
I've seen some people put good sized rocks at the edges of their
driveway to encourage drivers not to cut any corners.  Maybe that
puts your vehicles at too much risk?

 I back it into my garage and she drove it to the driveway and
 told me I could put it in there.

Same here.  I always back in my Acadia, and she won't--leaves it
in the driveway for me to do (though she very rarely drives it).

 She can ask all she wants, but I'm never letting her drive the
 RV.  Just ain't worth it.  When I'm dead she's gonna sell it
 anyway, so why bother.

My wife hasn't expressed any interest in driving when we're towing
the trailer.  In fact, she's come right out and said she wants no
part of that.

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA