Comments on: Drivers Ed, Little League, and Internet Shit-Talking http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/ Ridiculous adventures in suburbia. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jgibs2000 http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/comment-page-2/#comment-32946 Jgibs2000 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:59:49 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=6856#comment-32946 I went to a small school without a drivers ed program...so my Mom hired this third party guy that had his own "driving school"...He shows up the first day in a shiny new red Beretta, none of this K-car shit, he was riding in style. It had the extra brake but no steering wheel. So he says jump in, and within minutes we were rolling, with me at the wheel. He jumps in the passenger seat and places a black automatic handgun in the console...I didn't say anything, but my looked must have warrented an explanation(not EVERYONE had CCW permits then) he said something about having to carry large amounts of cash, blah, blah...So he fires up a smoke and tells me to merge onto I-75 at rush hour....I had been driving for all of ten minutes and this guy has me doing 80mph on the interstate. My only instructions were "don't let off the gas EVER...it's like hittin the brakes out here..." Wow, the good old days! I went to a small school without a drivers ed program…so my Mom hired this third party guy that had his own “driving school”…He shows up the first day in a shiny new red Beretta, none of this K-car shit, he was riding in style. It had the extra brake but no steering wheel. So he says jump in, and within minutes we were rolling, with me at the wheel. He jumps in the passenger seat and places a black automatic handgun in the console…I didn’t say anything, but my looked must have warrented an explanation(not EVERYONE had CCW permits then) he said something about having to carry large amounts of cash, blah, blah…So he fires up a smoke and tells me to merge onto I-75 at rush hour….I had been driving for all of ten minutes and this guy has me doing 80mph on the interstate. My only instructions were “don’t let off the gas EVER…it’s like hittin the brakes out here…”

Wow, the good old days!

]]> By: Not Oprah http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/comment-page-2/#comment-32916 Not Oprah Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:35:02 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=6856#comment-32916 dto - soundcards broke on my computer. Happy V-day back at ya. dto – soundcards broke on my computer. Happy V-day back at ya.

]]> By: dto http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/comment-page-2/#comment-32914 dto Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:03:28 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=6856#comment-32914 Happy Valentine's Day to all the girls here at the WVSR. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpKetg1Qewg&feature=player_embedded ...dave Happy Valentine’s Day to all the girls here at the WVSR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpKetg1Qewg&feature=player_embedded

…dave

]]> By: Alex http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/comment-page-2/#comment-32908 Alex Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:08:10 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=6856#comment-32908 We didn't have drivers ed at any of our highschools save for one where a drivers ed program was run out of, and it catered to everyone after school/summer time. It had a small driving course out back. Always got shit for taking the slalom portion too fast. The road portion put you in a car with two other students, half day session. Worked out nice. I was with another guy who also spent time on a farm, drivers ed for him, like me was solely to get an insurance discount, the other was a city girl afraid of gravel roads... so you can imagine that first day for her when two country bumpkins went tearing down the gravel. We also had a good selection of old road films during the class portion. "Signal 30" put out by the Ohio State Patrol was a good one. You can find it on archive.org. Those films lasted only a couple more years until somebody complained and they pulled them. One film title I've been trying to locate was an early drivers ed film, and focused on highway driving, set during the early interstate days, the driver (older guy) and his instructor where riding in possibly an early 50's convertable, making particular note of using onramps and offramps. If anybody knows of a title, let me know. We didn’t have drivers ed at any of our highschools save for one where a drivers ed program was run out of, and it catered to everyone after school/summer time.
It had a small driving course out back. Always got shit for taking the slalom portion too fast.
The road portion put you in a car with two other students, half day session. Worked out nice. I was with another guy who also spent time on a farm, drivers ed for him, like me was solely to get an insurance discount, the other was a city girl afraid of gravel roads… so you can imagine that first day for her when two country bumpkins went tearing down the gravel.

We also had a good selection of old road films during the class portion. “Signal 30″ put out by the Ohio State Patrol was a good one. You can find it on archive.org. Those films lasted only a couple more years until somebody complained and they pulled them.

One film title I’ve been trying to locate was an early drivers ed film, and focused on highway driving, set during the early interstate days, the driver (older guy) and his instructor where riding in possibly an early 50′s convertable, making particular note of using onramps and offramps. If anybody knows of a title, let me know.

]]> By: JCIII http://thewvsr.com/drivers-ed-little-league-and-internet-shit-talking/comment-page-2/#comment-32903 JCIII Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:34:13 +0000 http://thewvsr.com/?p=6856#comment-32903 Good Morning/Evening/Night Surf Reporters.............. Good Morning/Evening/Night Surf Reporters…………..

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