Re: Driving

["Daniel Vaiser" <vaiser@airmail.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Anne M. Marble <amarble@abs.net>
To: <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:47 PM
Subject: GG: Driving


> From: Paul Johnson <pauljohnson@mountsett.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>
> >>btw; why is it so that geniuses always are so bad at driving?
> >
> >well, i have just failed my second driving test so i must be a
> genius. does
> >anyone know why, on a driving test, your brain stops functioning and
> says
> >"go on, just do stupid things that you would never normally do to
> show this
> >man how bad a driver you are"?
>
>
> I don't know why driving tests do this -- but I do know that <insert
> booming voice here> you are not alone. I wouldn't admit this to just
> anyone -- only the 300 or so people on this list. But it took me four
> attempts to pass the test. All along, I was blaming it on nerves, the
> mediocre teacher I started out with, the obnoxious woman wo gave me
> the test the third time... All along, I was a genius. :-> The day I
> passed was surreal. It was Christmas Eve, and there was a Santa Claus
> in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles! He probably thought I was
> nuts when I thanked him for the new license he was giving me for
> Christmas!
>
> I remember reading that when GG was young, he accidentally drove his
> father's car into a lake. Does anybody remember if this was in
> Friederich or in another book? Does anybody know *how* on earth he did
> that? Whatever happened, he was probably driving with the radio
> playing. (I know the Friederich book mentioned an incident involving a
> symphony, GG conducting as he drove, and a reckless driving charge,
> and GG had to go to court for that one... Talk about surreal!)
>
> Also, does anybody know what happened to his cars? Were any of them
> "exhibited" the way the cars of famous people are sometimes displayed
> at museums? (I saw Woodrow Wilson's car at the musuem located at his
> birthplace.)
>
>

Probably most, if not all  of his cars were totaled by Glenn himself, in the
course of his erratic driving career. What happened to his last car is
anyone's guess.

Daniel