{"id":464,"date":"2010-09-18T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/?p=464"},"modified":"2010-09-25T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T06:02:14","slug":"its-no-small-thing-to-lose-your-driving-privileges-and-its-no-small-thing-to-get-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/09\/its-no-small-thing-to-lose-your-driving-privileges-and-its-no-small-thing-to-get-them-back\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s no Small Thing to lose your driving privileges . . . and it’s NO Small Thing to get them back!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>You can’t believe the difference that driving a car actually makes!<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It didn’t matter that my first morning driving [after two months of sleepless nights, extended waits, untolled hours on public transportation, and endless calling of friends to drive me]<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/em>. . . \u00a0involved a multi-accident traffic tie-up<\/a><\/em> that meant I could have ridden the 7.5 miles on my bike in less than the 55 minutes it took in my car.
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It didn’t matter . . . because just being able to drive again was truly akin to all those wonderful experiences we have that are like we’ve “died and gone to heaven”!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. I hadn’t even realized that bits of my self-esteem had been buried under the drama\/trauma of finding ways to get where I needed to go. (I had a meeting with one of my Drivers du Jour the next day [he hadn’t known me at all BND — Before No Driving] and he thought I was a different person.)<\/p>\n

2. If you personally have never lost your driving privileges, then you just can’t know . . . you just can’t. So I definitely have an increased appreciation for how it had to have felt when we took the keys away from my mom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. That being said, we need better answers, i.e., a “moral” to this story.<\/p>\n

Do you have one?<\/em><\/p>\n

DRIVING MISS SHARI, of course, continues . . . <\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>A) We have ALL the stories to tell of my Drivers du Jour, e.g. Bob Crane, our Tax Expert<\/a>, etc. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>B) Your comments on What it Means to be RICH & FAMOUS to be added to my first post: https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/08\/how-to-become-rich-famous-on-the-web\/<\/a> [where to date you can read 237 responses].<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>C) Those 237 responses are where we discovered Mike Maynard, our British humorist whose comic novel is being written on his own blog-within-my-blog: https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/09\/say-no-to-credit-cards-and-yes-to-getting-rich-and-famous\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>D) One look at the tragicomedy that too often masquerades as health “care”: https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/09\/when-its-very-very-very-difficult-to-be-happy-about-good-news\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>E) And last recommendation is an invitation to add your personal stories about taking the car keys away from a loved one . . . or what happens when you don’t: https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/09\/call-your-mother-but-keep-check-on-those-car-keys\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the weekend. Have a read . . . and have your say.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As Mike Maynard says: “I’ll be back”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can’t believe the difference that driving a car actually makes! It didn’t matter that my first morning driving [after two months of sleepless nights, extended waits, untolled hours on public transportation, and endless calling of friends to drive me] . . . \u00a0involved a multi-accident traffic tie-up that meant I could have ridden the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[42,59,62,63,61,60],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-stuff","category-stories-with-morals","tag-driving-miss-shari","tag-driving-privileges-restored","tag-health-miscare","tag-human-stories","tag-public-transportation-woes","tag-take-away-car-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}