Thread: Something has upset me

Yep, the list is excellent. Well done all!

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

I am going quiet for a while.
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I love quiet. Sitting on top of a mountain range with snow around and clouds below me. Reflection time is great. ( I have 3 kids and work) or in a prior life hundreds or thousands of miles out at sea watching millions of stars or amazing storms showing how really tiny I really am.

Getting help from mates or professionals is equally as good. I think of getting bogged window deep at night. A mate or three would have made the extraction much easier or at least laugh at my predicament while I self extracted. Professionals would help with out laughing to much. I may be off target and if so apologies.

Originally Posted by Davo

A slight hijack here, but don't teach your kids to drive. Honestly, if it's at all difficult, don't do it. I've just finished three years of teaching driving, and a lot of it was undoing the damage dads did before I got to them. Mind you, it's easy being patient when you have your own set of pedals handy. But seriously, keep your feathers and send her to a school.

I have to agree with you mate.
With our other kids I just taught the basics and left the rest for driver trainers.

However the youngest says/believes the Defender is hers soon to drive, "so in this end of the world situation", I have been determined to teach her proper gear changes with her mums car first. Lol
To be honest I think I have been far to strict with how the gears and clutch should be used with very little attention to teaching some road skills. I have also been told I get a little angry in my voice if she doesn't match the gears correctly, looks like I should take advice and hand this job over.

Its a funny thing though, because at 9 years old I could drive a 3 on the tree and back a boat trailer down a ramp no problems at all.
At 14 I was driving trucks and tractors on a farm 7 days a week.

But kids these days can drive a computer and the TV remote, where I will crash them every second day. Hmmmm, even trash my email box at times.

Originally Posted by Flipper

I have to agree with you mate.
With our other kids I just taught the basics and left the rest for driver trainers.

However the youngest says/believes the Defender is hers soon to drive, "so in this end of the world situation", I have been determined to teach her proper gear changes with her mums car first. Lol
To be honest I think I have been far to strict with how the gears and clutch should be used with very little attention to teaching some road skills. I have also been told I get a little angry in my voice if she doesn't match the gears correctly, looks like I should take advice and hand this job over.

Its a funny thing though, because at 9 years old I could drive a 3 on the tree and back a boat trailer down a ramp no problems at all.
At 14 I was driving trucks and tractors on a farm 7 days a week.

But kids these days can drive a computer and the TV remote, where I will crash them every second day. Hmmmm, even trash my email box at times.

Ah, there's a Defender involved, and anyway if you were a farm kid then you would have started young - this makes all the difference. I was lucky teaching here because most of my students were aboriginal and almost all of them started driving out in the bush when they were kids. They could all handle a car with ease and so I had to concentrate on removing the bad habits Dad taught them and we'd also work on town driving. They usually passed the test after an average of about five or ten lesssons.

Most of the non-aboriginal people, (and a handful of aboriginal people who couldn't drive), who started with me had to learn from scratch, and as you've seen it takes many, many hours of practise. And they also had a bizarre range of outmoded ideas from when their parents learned to drive, apparently in the 1920s. Some of them gave up because it was too hard!

And I have to say that I was a bad driver for over two decades until I started teaching it, because I finally learned all the things I wasn't taught in the first place. I still can't teach the wife, though.

It sounds like you got some feathers back!

Sorry, wrong thread

Arthur,

Can we change one of them?

0) Ron and Pedro have visited and pulled out all your feathers for dodging the swear filter

Originally Posted by Bundalene

Hey mate upset anyone - on the contrary!

Guys like yourself run this Forum and keep it alive, imparting your wisdom far and wide. You'd be surprised what tips people, including myself, get from the likes of yourself.

Don't go too quite, we do enjoy your input immeasurably.

We are always around for a chat if you feel the need, as are heaps of other Forum members.

Erich

Could not agree more on the above.

Aurther. As others have said seek professional help. My thoughts are with you as you fight this.

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