Comments on: #142: Don’t Be Afraid To Drive, Even If Your Car Is Old and Rusty, Your Key Is Broken, and You Think You’re Too Fat To Fit Behind The Wheel

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:50:34 +0000

Funny you should ask, Sara. In this as in so many other areas of life, I absolutely do have a recommendation. Get a car that looks like a regular old car, a VW or Nissan sedan maybe. No cartoon-y cars like VW Bugs or (the worst) PT Cruisers. No gas hog SUVs. No rich old people cars like Lexuses — Lexi? An efficient car that doesn’t call attention to itself or attempt to be “fun.”

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:32:17 +0000

I need to get another car, but can’t decide. Any recommendations for a hownottoactold car?

By: iamevilhomer

iamevilhomer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:38:55 +0000

make sure before you drive you pimp your ride! found some cool woodstock stuff here recently…cartatts.com

By: Mauigirl

Mauigirl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:02:17 +0000

I recently dreamed I was driving, with my husband, the wrong direction up an exit ramp to a highway with all the cars coming right at me.

All of these Freudian driving dreams….I hate to even imagine…

By: Debbie Galant

Debbie Galant — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:29:23 +0000

I have nightmares sometimes that I have to drive upside down like on those Hot Wheels tracks my son used to play with. I told this to him and his friends at a restaurant in Wellfleet last week and they all laughed. What does this mean?

By: Betty

Betty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:40:33 +0000

i think you dreamed that the cash for clunker program is ending on monday even before it was announced.

By: TheWordWire

TheWordWire — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:03:00 +0000

I think you’re right about having a motivational speech in the making. Age is as much about how old you FEEL as how old you actually are. The only thing that makes me feel old is realizing I’m more afraid to take risks. Thanks for the reminder not to be afraid to drive… the same way I did at 20.

By: starkart

starkart — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:34:10 +0000

hmm…Great Dream. I feel so unenlightened. I’m still dreaming about forgetting the combination to my high school locker!

By: Karla

Karla — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:33:09 +0000

That was an awesome dream! You discovered “the key” to being younger and was able to fly (and got rid of that younger, skinnier illusion)! If you’re a Freudian, you could think of the Model T as your husband. (He doesn’t need a younger, thinner woman–you can drive him just fine!)

When I was younger, I had a dream that I was driving on the main street through Riverside, CA, which is lined with palm trees. As I drove faster and faster, I counted the trees. 1…2…3…4… My passenger said, “You’ll never make it to 50!” I always wondered if that meant I would die before I hit 50 years old–but I made it! Guess that was my hint to slow down if I wanted to make it to 50.