“Did I ever tell you about the time I drove in Mexico?”

So I drove in Australia yesterday. Yup. Me. After that mysterious and carefully ignored incident, I didn’t think anyone would be stupid enough to let me drive, but alas, someone was too tired to know better and let me.It’s funny because I

• had no license
• was wearing glasses that only gave me 20/40 vision
• didn’t know the rules of the road (as I proved quite accidentally by not yielding when I should have)
• was not legally allowed to drive in that country
• hadn’t driven in a loooooong time
• was driving at night,
• –on the other side of the road–
• didn’t really know where to go
• in a car that I was not used to
• –that wasn’t mine–
• and I was on the other side of the car.

It’s insane that I drove like that and even more insane that I didn’t kill us all. Next time I’ll pilot a space shuttle while wearing a blindfold.

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