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Entry: Is Driver's Ed a Liberal Art? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/is_drivers_ed_a_liberal_art#31120 Post contents: Well, Zmirak, you missed out on of the greatest joys of all time. Accordion Carts. I was born in Baton Rouge but my father, who graduated from LSU soon wanted to move us away from our crazy drunken cajun relatives, Al Bundy's mother in law was more well like than my fathers MIL, so onward to Texas we went after a short stay in Denver. Alas, the wide open parking lot of the first air conditioned 50 shop indoor mall in Texas, due to blue-laws, were a vast expanse of concrete open for all to drive upon on Sundays. I learned to drive a 1957 Triumph Tr3 with stop signs for floorboards that long ago rusted away. If you didnt drive back then, well, you took the ankle express which would surely make you the target of some tobacco chewing hicks as they flew past. I digress. Empty parking lots soon became grounds for the latest juvenile destructional adventure of the day. Accordion carts. You begim by selecting the best cart you could find at K-Mart, one without wobbly wheels and bent frame. Then having selected the perfect specimen the monkey, the elected fool would hang out from the rear passenger side window, would hang onto, the shopping cart while the driver of the vehicle aimed toward the light pole of choice at the terminal velocity of 60 miles per as anything above this speed and the cart become near uncontrollable and often and hit the when released..dad wasnt happy when this occured. Once speed attained and the cart didnt go into mach tuck ,it was then guided toward the light pole, at the last possible minute the monkey would say 'NOW" and the driver would veer sharply to the left while the cart was released into the light pole. It was interesting to see a shopping cart less than half its original length. Aye, even more to see shoppers oggling the mysterious accordion cart, perfectly collapsed upon itself, yet still rolling on four wheels. I doubt they ever figured out what really happened. We could of made a heckuva driver out of you Zirmak. Heh. Sent at: 2008 12 02