It threw me for a loop every time Ellie got behind the wheel of a car because in my head she was 12 and too young to be driving.
I don't know the book or the author, but, for whatever it's worth, the first time I drove on the 401, I was 12 years old (and I still remember the terror I felt when I eased my way past my first transport truck on that very same trip). No, I didn't steal a car; my father was at least as strange then than he is now. (If my parents are to be believed, the first time I steered a car, I was under 3.)
Probably a good thing that as a father, I am a little more cautious than my parents were.
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Date: 2021-06-17 10:13 pm (UTC)I don't know the book or the author, but, for whatever it's worth, the first time I drove on the 401, I was 12 years old (and I still remember the terror I felt when I eased my way past my first transport truck on that very same trip). No, I didn't steal a car; my father was at least as strange then than he is now. (If my parents are to be believed, the first time I steered a car, I was under 3.)
Probably a good thing that as a father, I am a little more cautious than my parents were.