Adulting With Cars, Thursday, Third Period

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"I know some of you will be having your parents or other relatives come this weekend," Brian opened this class with, "so you might want to not tell them about what we did last week." Although who knew? Maybe some of them would be thrilled to know their kids were learning how to break into cars at boarding school. "This week's lesson might be a safer bet, though. Say you get in your car, and it won't start. Now, there are a lot of reasons that might happen, and for some of them you're going to need a tow truck, but the first possibility is always that it's your battery, and you just need to jump start the car. And for that you need...a second car." Brian pushed a button and said second car appeared in front of his demonstration car. "You'll also need jumper cables." He opened the trunk of the demo car and took them out. "Here's what you do." He walked them through the process of jump starting a car, then pushed another button on the remote and watched a line of cars appear in front of his students' cars. "Get your cars started, race the course, get back here. Anyone attempting to just jump in the second car and drive off will find that it will not move. One, two, three, GO!"

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Re: Talk to Brian

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"No, no," Kathy said, blushing a bit. "I'm sorry, I'm explaining myself badly. My parents aren't going to see the need for me to learn about automobile maintenance or repair, even the most basic stuff. My dad's not really big on anything that smacks of blue collar work and my mom is going to think it's not suitable for her daughter."

Kathy's parents were, uhh, complicated?

"I was mostly hoping we could say it was a required course for seniors?" she said. "Otherwise, I'm going to get lectured about taking a class that's a, umm, waste of time. Not that I think it is, of course!"

Okay, she still would hear about it, but it would be more of a general lecture and not about her choosing to waste her time. 'Because it's fun, I like going fast, and the teacher is hot' were not acceptable reasons to take a non-academic course.