Help?

[xp_wallflower]

Sooo. Who here has the ability to drive and doesn't mind carting me back and forth between here and Salem Center High this weekend?

Mom would do it but she's working and I'm meant to be doing my finals, and I suppose I could walk if no one's available...

This would be so much easier if I could just take the damn things with the rest of my class but I guess 'uncontrolled mutant power' makes my former fellow student's parental types a little twitchy. Which, yeah, understandable but still sucks.

So, lift? I'll even make you lunch when we get back. (Although, it'll have to be sandwiches of some sort, or maybe soup. Soup I can do. Got a receipe for this really great vegetable soup around somewhere.)

Comments

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

I can definitely take you back and forth on Sunday. Let me see what I can change with my Saturday schedule. What time would you need to be taken and picked up?

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Saturday, they said first exam is 7am and last is about 5pm, so I'd need to be picked up at 6:30pm and then Sunday it's the same. Thank God it's only the written stuff. Phys Ed. they're just grading me on what I dd during the year, so there's no final for that. Don't know how Forge's little portable device would cope with a full on cross country run.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Lucky for you, I'm a morning person. And my schedule is cleared now, so I can take you both days. That bites that you have exams right after prom though.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Darnnit, I was gonna be all like OOH OOH ME ME! ...

But then I remembered I gotta drive with someone else with a license anyway, so somebody else'd have to go and that's pretty boring. And I gotta drive the boring cars ANYWAY and that's -no- fun.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*hasn't seen any of the cars yet* What are the non-boring ones? And there will be many, many times I will need to ask for people to drive me places. Least till I learn to drive myself. I can't remember, is 16 okay to start learning?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

"Boring" is a function of the driver, not the vehicle.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Well, for me a Fiat spider is normal, considering it's what my Mom drives everywhere. But I don't think I'd be wanting to learn to drive in something like that.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

You drive the Volvo then and tell me it's not hella boring. Booooooooo-ring. BORING. Boooooo-r-iiing.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Ever seen a Volvo get up on two wheels going around a corner?

Want to?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I, uh, have this thing I gotta do, you know, called Geometry, cause hey, finals in a week?

After classes, sure, because I totally don't believe you can do that. There's car genius and then there's breaking universal rules, one of which is "Volvos are not cool."

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*blinks at him for a bit* I take it me asking why having a car up on two wheels going round a corner is cool will mark me as unfun lass?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Forge, no.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

There used to be a RX-7, well, there is still sorta, I think. And a couple of other cool cars.

I got my license at 16, but mine is special, and not in the good way.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask why it's not in a good way?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

GTA at 13, kidnapped by crazy people who wanted to turn me into some kind of killing machine at 14, rescued by Nate, and on probation until I'm 18, and since I have to live outside of the ... hell, what's the thingy say, I gotta go look this up.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Looks like we're brothers(Does that count when I'm a girl?) in arms then, considering Nate saved me as well. Although, not from quite so stunning circumstances as yours. Does the kidnapping thing happen a lot to mutant children? I've been hearing stories.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we can totally commiserate on how shitty jail food is. :) Did you get the craptastic bologna sandwiches?

... aw, hell. No WONDER those made me sick. I was mutating. Jesus christ, I didn't even think of that. I can't eat the stuff now, I didn't even think about it then.

And nah. Just us special ones. It helps to have a mutation that makes you harder to make dead and easier to make with the crazy, I think.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Because I need to live outside the jurisdiction of the Montana Criminal Justice Department, they leave it to the Professor to monitor my probation and one of the conditions of it is that I am not allowed to drive a car or any other 'motor vechicle', which I guess means vans and trucks and motorcycles and things without another licensed driver over the age of 18. Even with my driver's licence.

It sucks balls.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Okay, that does suck. Although, hey, perfect excuse to drag people off on roadtrips. (Or store runs even.)

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Hmm...hope I'm not about to regret this. As my summer is looking unreasonably empty of things to do, I'd be more than happy to accompany you on errands and the like, or if you just want to drive for a bit. However, if the car ever does anything remotely two wheeled, I will rescind that offer.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

There is still an RX-7. It'll just take a few more weeks until it's recognizable as one again.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

So it's like halfway between being one and not being one. That's pretty Zen if you think about it.

I mean, if it's not recognizable as a RX-7, is it one? It is a RX-7 in progress? But it used to be one, so ... what is it?

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

So it's like schrodinger's car then.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

What exactly do you do to an RX-7 to make it not look like one anymore?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

*I* do nothing. The previous owner wrapped it around a tree and was going to sell it for scrap, so I bought it off him.

It's got a hell of a lot more frame damage than I initially thought, going to need an entirely new front end, axle, and transmission. You'd have thought it hit Mr. Marko and not just a simple tree.