Yesterday, Joannie took Mother to renew her driver’s license.  They stopped by DQ afterward to celebrate with a Blizzard.

There is a family legend that mother’s mother (Mama) taught her to drive at the age of twelve on the country roads of Oklahoma with her mother-in-law (Grandma Harrison) in the back seat.  It is said that Mother once steered into and right back out of a little ditch on the side of the road.  Mama was very sanguine about these things and said nothing as Mother executed the corrective move.  I can recall some years later a similar experience in much the same area with me in the driver’s seat, Mother riding shot-gun, and Mama in the back seat.

Let’s see? Mother was twelve when she learned to drive and will turn ninety later this summer.  You do the math.  She’s never had a moving violation.  I think perhaps she has received a parking ticket or two though.    You go, Girl!