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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Approximately 9pm last Tuesday. I found myself lying on my back staring up at a cloudy starry sky. The coldness of the pavement was permeating my skin and there was a dull ache from my left arm and shoulder. My left hand was lying in something wet; I only hoped it wasn't my blood or other bodily fluids. Good, it was a motor oil puddle. I had managed to get talked into giving a friend of mine a few driving lessons to prep him for his drivers test. My friend, of course, is an international student from Bangladesh who hasn't really driven a car in over a year (and never in the US). Being the nice guy that I am, I agreed and plotted out the next hour of driving practice. Well, it was interesting. It would be very unfair of me to say that he was a bad driver. Undertrained and inexperienced would be better. We stayed in the parking to our stadium and I let him drive around. I was getting car sick from sharp and shaky turns at 40 mph and the braking that left skids marks. We got pulled over in the stadium parking lot by the campus police. She was laughing as I explained I trying to give driving lessons. After about half an hour, I needed out of my car or else I going to vomit profusely. I picked this as the time to practice parking. Just simple pull straight into a normal parking space. I set a metal trash can in one space, left the next open, and I stood in the space next to the open one. For anyone who may ever do this: DON'T! My friend crashed my car into the metal trash can twice. At about 30 mph. My car is fine, but that can has seen better days. He then tried approaching the space from the opposite direction. Well, my friend has a tendency to watch where he wants the car to go and not where it was actually going. The first attempt I had to jump back a foot to avoid getting hit. The second attempt, he drove my car right over the curb of the tree island. The third attempt is what landed me in the position I was in at the start of my post. He was coming in way too fast and heading straight for me. I was yelling, but he was looking somewhere else. So, I had to do one of those action movie jump-to-the-side-and-roll-out-of-the-way-of-the-maniac-driver moves. The problem is that I am 5'11" tall and weigh a bit over 270 pounds. That was not fun. My shoulder is a little bruised from where I hit the pavement. My friend never did realize that he almost nailed me. So, I would now like to point out the morals of this story: 1. Never trust anyone who says they know how to drive but are "a little rusty." 2. Always make sure the trainee has auto insurance. 3. Never ever get out of the car. Take an "air discomfort" bag with you, but for the love of God DO NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR! 4. Use someone else's car. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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