I couldn't do it with the spouse. I would end up a quivering mass of jelly.
I do think a day at Bondurant's defensive driving school at Sebring would be money well spent, however. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 1, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > For a Christmas present for you both enroll in a day at the BMW track in > Greer. It is a great time and you get to drive spiritedly on a track with > some high-performance luxury sedans that will do more than you are capable of > doing. The 2 of you can share a car and rag on each other. It is not cheap > but it will do wonders for confidence and it is also fun as hell. > > --R > >> On 12/1/16 8:15 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >> I would actually prefer to enroll her in a driving course and improve that >> skill set. May not happen anytime soon, but I'd be more comfortable in the >> long run with that solution. I guess I'm the typical husband / male who >> thinks his spouse can't drive, yet I'm the one with the speeding tickets >> and the (few) fender-benders. >> >> My wife spent many of her adult driving years in southern Italy, a place >> where (it used to be) that stop lights and the lines on the road were >> purely for decoration and few wore seat-belts (wearing a seat-belt, I was >> told, was a sign of fear in the wearer. Child safety seat for the little >> ones? What a waste of money!). Under stress, such a driver may revert to >> those habits, passing on left or right, on the shoulder or over the line >> into oncoming traffic, whatever it takes to get from A to B in an >> emergency. That works great in Italy or in a war zone, and probably in >> many other parts of the world (Panama comes to mind, I've had some very >> scary rides in taxicabs in Panama City), but in the U.S. of A., other >> drivers just are not prepared for that type of behavior and some tend to >> get violently angry when someone else "breaks the rules" and gets ahead of >> them or inconveniences them in any way. >> >> >> >> ------------- >> Max >> Charleston SC >> >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> One word: 4Matic. (Well, I can powerslide my 1999 4Matic wagon, but I have >>> to >>> try. It takes a lot of wheelspin to annoy the 4Matic system to the point >>> that it >>> takes the throttle away from me) >>> >>> Mitch. >>>> On November 30, 2016 at 9:38 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Too quick it turns out, put the car into a power slide and activated the >>> ASD. >>>> Contacted me later, thought she'd broken the car when the ASD light >>> came on >>>> for a bit. Blames the car, not enough power she says. >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > -- > --FT > Winston Churchill: > “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large > or petty, > never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. > Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the > enemy.” > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
