Mother learns to drive.......

My sister, Corinne Linda-Margaret was reminding me of this story........one we all know well in our family........mother always took it in good humour when we mentioned it............well, maybe not in 'good' humour but she didn't actively object.......

Father giving mother a driving lesson.   This first and last lesson must have been in the old model A type truck around 1950 because we still had the shingles on the house.  Mother is in the drivers side, with Dad in the passenger seat and she has to back up to get out of the driveway.  Apparently she asked Dad which way she should turn the wheel and in his wisdom he thought she should know what to do without any advice from him  (some instructor he was).  She backed up at a good clip and veered off the driveway and proceeded to strip the house of some of its shingles.  That was the end of Dad teaching Mom to drive. It scared her so much she never attempted driving  again for many many years and when she got her nerve back again she  took private driving lessons from an instructor.  Below is a picture of our house, when my grandmother and grandfather were still living there.  In the picture are:  Father, Mother, Danny, Leonard (Bruthie), and Linda.  I am unborn at this time.......Bruthie was 4 1/2 when I was born and we moved into grandma's house when I was two and a half.  Guess we were visiting.  Also in the picture you can see the truck that father drove - and that's the one mom was attempting to learn in when she took the shingles off the house a few years later! 

Cheerio,