After our recent snowstorm, Tara mentioned how artistic our driveway looked. I glanced outside and laughed. It does sort of resemble a work of modern art!
Totally my doing, by the way. I’ve always been a backer-inner, so when I come home, I pull into the driveway, swing my car toward the detached garage, then back into the regular garage – as evidenced by those tire tracks in the snow.
I’ve gotten so good at this, squeezing into my spot while avoiding the large metal support pole, I could do it in my sleep. Even Tara is impressed with how smoothly and confidently I execute this maneuver. She attached a pool noodle to the pole “just in case,” and while I appreciate her looking out for my car, I’ve never come close to hitting it.
Eat your heart out, Dale Earnhardt Jr.!
For the record, I’m also really good at parallel parking and turning left against oncoming traffic (something Tara avoids like the plague; she’ll turn right and go blocks in the opposite direction just to get out of doing it). To be fair though, roundabouts are my Kryptonite, while she navigates them with ease. If you combined our skills, we’d be one kick-ass driver.
By the way, what a stupid place to put a pole. I get that it has to hold the house up and stuff, but it really limits our options. Tara’s pickup won’t fit in there, and if I didn’t back in, I’d have to clamber over the passenger seat to get out because the pole would block the driver’s door.
And parking on the other side isn’t an option because we have a freezer there and will one day have a beer fridge, true Sconnies that we are.
If you’re like me, not only are you an excellent backer-inner, parallel parker, and left-turn maker, but you also keep a running list of potential blog topics. I use an app called Keep Notes, jotting down ideas as they come to me. Here’s my current list:
These ideas don’t always make it onto the blog, for a number of reasons: I might lack the motivation to follow through, or be unable to flesh them out. Sometimes they’ve been on the list so long, I can’t remember what I wanted to say about them in the first place. (Grey Poupon and ice fishing are perfect examples.)
Occasionally, I’ll purge ideas from my list I don’t think will ever see the light of day. Most of these have been languishing a long time, so help a brother out:
Which of these topics are you most interested in reading about?
The top three vote-getters will get posts and I’ll eighty-six the rest. TIA!
Mark My Words 
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