“Promila, did you already give your car for servicing?”
“Don’t be daft, who does that to a new car?”
“Then, where is it?”
“I could swear that I parked it here.”
***My phone starts ringing***
“Hey, I wasn’t able to get through to Promila & figured you’d be with her, so I called you.”
“Yup, we’re both here. Tell me?”
“So, I remember Promila telling me that she’d bought a red car and there’s a similar car right outside my place with a cloth doll that looks exactly like the ones she keeps.”
“Thanks Cara, we’ll be there soon.”
******
“You forgot the handbrake, right?”
“We haven’t reached that lesson yet.”
Today’s photo prompt literally screams a Promila story. It has been given by Liz Young at the Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.
Bernadette Braganza 
She’s brave, if foolhardy
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Not sure about brave, but she definitely doesn’t always think things through.
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Oh dear. Well, Mom sure seems to take it in stride!
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Yup. Thanks for reading 🙂
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That was a good tale. I swear they dont teach the use of indicators anymore let alone handbrakes.
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Really? How do people get the hang of it then?
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I was meaning in terms of the amount of people who dont bother to indicate before turning. Especiallly on roundabouts!
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Haha. Guess they’re unsure of the direction in which they’re going.
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Just lazy and driving dangerously.
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Hopefully, the handbrake will feature in the next lesson! Nice one.
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Unfortunately she doesn’t have a car for the next lesson.
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Oh no! Maybe she should have the lessons first, the driving later?
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Yup. Only we realised it too late.
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Oops. She needs to learn on a cheap car.
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I don’t think she’s gonna get any car soon
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Note self – first lesson, mention handbrake 🙂
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Good job!
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You’d think learning about the brakes was paramount!
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I guess the instructor thought of teaching according to the driving order. Brakes come last in that!
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I like the way you tell this story about Promila through somebody else. It works well here.
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Thanks Penny 🙂
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Dear Bernadette,
I take it common sense isn’t one of Promila’s strong suits. 😉 Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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It isn’t but that’s what makes her so entertaining.
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Looks like the lesson on the handbrake should have been the very first one. There is one lesson that is never taught and I think it should be included.– ‘Please remember where you parked the car.’– A kind of memory trick. How many times do you need to walk around a multi-storey parking lot and never find the car, because it in the other perking place.
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if the aisles are marked you take a pic of the section with your phone.
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That’s a good idea. But at times we park on back roads that connect to another maze of back roads. An impossible feat if you can’t remember the road.
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That’s right!
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fingers crossed they have insurance with a low deductible…
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Maybe next time finish the lessons first! Great story.
~🕊Dora
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Lesson taken.
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Ah yes, always good to cover off the handbrake lesson, early on. Nice take on the prompt, Bernadette.
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Thanks Michael
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Really relateble I just started my own travel blog and then covid hit and I could not travel anymore from my country. No travel planning for me at all 😦
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Yes, I remember this one. Thanks for linking and reminding me of this fun tale.
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Thanks for reading 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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