GA you only needed driver ed if you were 16, then changed to 18 a few years ago. Can't get a driver license at all under 18 if you dropped out of school. Last I heard they were going to start mandatory driver ed for everyone to get a license, then periodic refreshers. Also people over 60 need to retake the tests every time they renew.
in Ontario at least, getting training from a certified school lets you test for your, uh, 2nd stage license? Faster. we have like, a learners permit, a mostly-but-not-quite-full license and then the full license. anyway since I went to a certified school i get a better insurance rate, and i had to stay at the learners permit level for 8 months instead of 12, i think. eta: oh and yeah, this was in college for me, since there was no mandatory in-school drivers ed at my high school. there were one or two drivers ed places really close by, so there's still the expectation that you're gonna start lessons as soon as legally possible (16).
a thing i realized that shocked me for no good reason when i was watching good mythical more: eating the after school snack "ants on a log" which is made by cutting a celery stick and spreading peanut butter on it then sticking raisins to the peanut butter in a row is by no means a global thing people do. it looks like this:
I think I am the only Washingtonian NOT unsettled by Big Sky. Possibly this is because I am a [SCREAMS AT OCEAN] child and it doesn't get much flatter than that. RE: driving: No schooling required here iirc?, but it gets you an insurance discount that you desperately need if you try to drive before the age of 20.
Is it normal to not be allowed to drive a rental car if your family gets one after an accident until you're 25? We had trouble with that last summer when one of our cars got wrecked. Like, the rental was under my mom's name so family members were allowed to drive it, but not if they were under 25 because insurance or something?
I didn't need to do any formal driving education, I learned to drive in Nevada in the USA. My parents taught me, lmao.
I had ants on a log when I was little in Iowa! This was before I realized I could veto celery because celery is an evil stringy hell vegetable. We also had "pigs in a blanket," which is hot dogs (or half hot dogs, or vienna sausages) wrapped in pastry and baked. I haven't had this in at least 15 years but now I'm craving it, wtf.
dude these are great we'd make them with like, the cheap premade croissant dough in a can. super easy to wrap around a hot dog OR a sausage link. super good with a breakfast sausage in it too
Yes, I had it with the croissant dough and it was so good (as I remember it)! Ugh I love that flaky pastry... okay clearly I need to go get myself something to eat rn.
Ahhh pigs in a blanket, I love them It's a shame I'm the only one who is okay with hot dogs in this house, I def. couldn't eat a whole batch of them before everything goes bad even if I only made a couple at a time :<
Feelings re space and things: I've grown up in mountainous areas. I feel very uncomfortable in places where the horizon isn't hidden by a mountain somewhere along the line. Why is the land flat, this is Wrong.
I grew up in middle/southern minnesota. We go from huge hills to flat plains here. When i went to alaska to visit my aunt for the first time I was a bit amazed by the mountains, but they didn't feel so unfamiliar? Like, it felt like Minnesota, but cooler. I was only really surprised when we hiked to the top of one and realized how f*ing HIGH they were, like i could see the entire city of Anchorage from the top of one and that's when i got a kinda shock from them. That and when we went up one after buying some pop and nobody warned me that it would spray anywhere because of pressure change, I hadn't factored that in.
I grew up in Upper Middle Class Land (you know, that range of people between the top 15% and top 5% where no one really thinks they're Rich because you all still need things like mortgages but you move away and realize you are The Rich Kid in any other place and it's really awkward cause you thought of yourself as normal wage your whole life but you're not (can you tell I feel awkward about this?)) and I had a friend whose family moved twice to bigger houses within the same town; same school district, even. They were those people who rented a bouncy castle for birthday parties
@amberbydreams Oh man so I went to a private school (which... yeah, that kinda already tells you about my family's financial situation lmao), but out of the other kids, my family seemed very normal and middle class. Like my parents stressed a lot about money and like owned normal cars. Other kids lived in huge-ass mansions with ocean views and their parents bought them brand-new BMWs as their first cars! It was not until I got to uni and met people outside of that bubble that I realised that actually, my family is incredibly well off compared to a lot of people, wow, OK.
@blue , didn't you have a story about somebody at your fancy private school offering you a ride in their private jet?
Oh man, yeah. It really says something about the wage gap when 'really well off' varied from families wit half the money of mine to like. A lot more than mine. I remember as a kid I used to be scared of the townhome neighborhoods because that was the definition of poor I was familiar with (Also they were semi private neighborhoods with gates or different colored street signs so I never knew if it was ok for me to be in one)
AMERICANS put salt in steamed rice, or butter. Sacrilegious! *throws up* Or only the Americans and Africans in my area? Western Washington.
