Just put your feet down, child

[j4]

Yesterday I drove into work, on my own. After work I drove to the dojo, in Cherry Hinton, on my own. After my karate lesson I did a nifty manoeuvre to get out of the dojo carpark (it's just a small forecourt, so it involved reversing into the space between sensei's car and a lamppost, then doing a U-turn from the forecourt into the road to get out) without hitting anything -- without even scratching anything! -- and then drove to Sainsburys, where I did the shopping, on my own. Then I drove home, and got the car back into our drive, again without hitting anything. On my own.

I'm a real grown-up at last! At the age of 24!

On the other hand... yesterday I was wearing yellow-and-black stripy tights, black skirt, and my supergirl t-shirt. Today I'm wearing black combat trousers (size: Age 13), and my Little Miss Giggles t-shirt (size: Age 3-4). Okay, so not all of me is grown-up.

(The Little Miss Giggles t-shirt emphasises the bits of me that are grown-up, though. And it's worth having a slightly chilly bit of stomach where there's a gap between the t-shirt and the trousers for the sake of watching software engineers drool as I walk past.)

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Yay! I still really hate driving (apart from motorways), okay, so I don't have to do it often, but still, I know what you mean about grown-up-ness. I've got to drive to IKEA soon, and I'm not looknig forward to do it, though I'm determined to do it myself.

The water is only waist-high.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Which IKEA ? The one at Thurrock is relatively nice to get to, although the route from the M25 junction is a little convoluted, I did manage it easily enough the first time I drove down there in a transit van o-doom :)

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Yes, Thurrock. I dislike the M25 roundabout exit. And before they widened the pickup point it was a nightmare. I find parking hard in a van (I've only been on my tod) in their carpark and their pickup point. Probably to do with me driving <200 miles per year, :).

[simonb.livejournal.com]

I don't find that I have that many problems with manuovering transit vans; there again I've used them quite a bit in the past and actively enjoy driving them around :)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I've only been on my tod

*happy sigh* *goes off on a dialect headtrip*