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by Yvonne
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We're thinking about Texas. We toy with other ideas, but we keep coming back to that one. However, as things always are in my life thse days, that's subject to change

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Wow. Texas. I never would have guessed that one. Never been myself. I have a friend who went recently. She liked San Antonio. I've also heard Austin is quite nice. I figure Texas will be a bit of a culture shock. Hope you enjoy it.

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by Yvonne
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I have my UK licence, but I passed my test over a decade ago and would fail now without some bad habit erasing practise!

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The drivers around these parts got their licenses from the Bad Habit School of Driving. You should see the stuff that passes for normal driving with some people around here. But I know what you mean. I've head my license for a few years too, and after you've been driving for a while, you're no longer doing things exactly by the book.

Don't know about Texas though. But if you cut someone off on the road down there, just remember, they're probably packin' heat.

i dont know anything about going round a roundabout backwards, but i remember someone cramming 5 people into their back seat (plus at least 1, possibly 2 in the boot!), racing along country roads, screaming "up yours, w*nker!" and giving the finger to all the people she was cutting up...
the most memorable bit was when she yelled "SMILE!" and turned around to take a photo of us screaming in the back seat - while still doing 70 around a blind bend...
luckily, her parents pickled us up after the gig...

having said that, after the recent FSM gig in london, there were 6 of us crammed into the back of a decrepit old escort van - it was only after the driver had gone from whereverthehellitwas to barking (on the motorway, never going below 80) that we realised that the van had a left rear puncture - which explained the bumpy ride and the way the van had been sliding all over the road...

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by Teresa
I didn't go on that one. I think I went round one on one of the very first trips. I may have had Alex with me... All I rememeber was everyone screaming, lol.

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Yep, I was there. I seem to remember it was on one of the Alton Towers trips that you decided (or rather, you were easily persuaded) to go the wrong way round a roundabout, till another car pulled onto it and we had to make a sharp exit... I think that was me, you Yvonne and George...

And yes, I was also present in Yvonne's car with Marky (and Katie I think) when she did a similar maneuvre... I will have a nervous breakdown at some point...

I remember when Yvonne was driving when we were on holiday and went "bored now, your turn" and let go of the wheel!

I DONT DRIVE!

I was scared.

I would just like to say, that even 'tho I now drive a Golf GTi, I have become a sensible and safe driver

Ah man! Does that mean I have to change my opinion that all Golf drivers are (insert swear word here). I was sitting in slow traffic on Tuesday. I was on an upward hill so I left about half a car's length in case the person in front rolled back. Behind me was an idiot woman in the brightest white Golf I'd ever seen, hooting at me. I got a little confused as to why, so I raised my hands as if to say "what do you want me to do, we're in traffic!". At that point she put her foot down to over take me, even though the gap to pull in to wasn't big enough. It really annoyed me, but I got the last laugh. All she could do was poke the nose of her car into what little gap there was and her tail end blocked the oncoming traffic, to which she got a lot of beeps. I love it when things go wrong for idiot drivers.

I think I had about 25 lessons with an instructor...
I learned to drive from a friend in her 2CV and her hubbies Saab 9000 turbo , so it took a while getting out of bad habits I'd picked up from her.
Ten of the lessons were the mandatory traffic safety course they have here in Norway.
Driving on motorways, driving on & off motorways, overtaking, night driving, emergency manouvering & ice/snow driving.
Passed both my theory and practical test first time....did the theory test for heavy motorcycles here last year & again passed first time, but then couldn't afford the actual lessons....now I've kinda chickened out....I prefer having a ton of steel around me on the roads...

Got into some REALLY bad habits while I was living in Ireland...up until 2005 thing were pretty lawless there...so I was rarely less the 20km over the speed limit...
Used to love working Irish bank holidays as there was no traffic - no school mums in over size SUVs klogging up the roads, so driving though Dublin I'd be doing 70-90KM/h rather than the usual 10-40km/h.

When I first bought an Irish car with an MPH speedometer instead of the KM/H speedo I'd had in the jap import I'd had previously a friend who was riding with me pointed out I was doing 135 MPH and not 135 KM/H as I was used to....
I'd just switched from a Mazda 323 to a V6 Mazda 626, so the ride was much smoother & quieter....

Now I'm back in Norway & driving a Renault 5, so I sometimes get 10KM over the speed limit

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by Sandia
Wow. Texas. I never would have guessed that one. Never been myself. I have a friend who went recently. She liked San Antonio. I've also heard Austin is quite nice. I figure Texas will be a bit of a culture shock. Hope you enjoy it.

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I'm told that the cities are pretty open minded, and that it's out in the sticks where you'll have issues. I'm looking forward to living and working somewhere different. Texas has been pegged for our first stop but isn't necessarily where we'll end up for life. Florida also holds some interest for us, anywhere with mostly pleasant weather will do me in the long run, lol.

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by mad
i dont know anything about going round a roundabout backwards, but i remember someone cramming 5 people into their back seat (plus at least 1, possibly 2 in the boot!), racing along country roads, screaming "up yours, w*nker!" and giving the finger to all the people she was cutting up...
the most memorable bit was when she yelled "SMILE!" and turned around to take a photo of us screaming in the back seat - while still doing 70 around a blind bend...
luckily, her parents pickled us up after the gig...

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That's an exageration. The photo was taken when we were stopped at some lights and there was only one in the boot, haha!! Also, there are no blind bends on the way from my old house to the gig, you just couldn't see cuz you were crammed in the back with three other people, lol!

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by KaTiEStar
I remember when Yvonne was driving when we were on holiday and went "bored now, your turn" and let go of the wheel!

I DONT DRIVE!

I was scared.

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You loved it. My favourite bit was when you thought I was joking till I shouted "Katie, quick, we're gonna crash!!" ::sigh:: so much fun ^_^

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by Teresa
I would just like to say, that even 'tho I now drive a Golf GTi, I have become a sensible and safe driver

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Me too I have to practise sedate driving so it's less of a shock when we move to Americaland. it's no fun though The car I'm driving now doesn't have the balls to do the things I've done in my old cars, it's not nippy enough and I'd surely die if I tried it. Ah well, getting (another) new one in a few weeks

My Boy just passed his test First time, 'tho he's had his US license for a few years.

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by mad
i dont know anything about going round a roundabout backwards, but i remember someone cramming 5 people into their back seat (plus at least 1, possibly 2 in the boot!), racing along country roads, screaming "up yours, w*nker!" and giving the finger to all the people she was cutting up...
the most memorable bit was when she yelled "SMILE!" and turned around to take a photo of us screaming in the back seat - while still doing 70 around a blind bend...
luckily, her parents pickled us up after the gig...

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I remember the gig. Fortunately I'd made my own way, or there probably would have been two in the boot. Lol memories