My Brother Louis Measures Worms
“In fact, they all seemed to be either one way or the other, with the exception of my little brother Louis, who enjoyed driving a car (till he was found out and stopped), but did so without risk to anyone’s life or limbs.
The extreme cases were Aunt Mildred, with whom Louis and I were forbidden to ride—and, at the other end of the scale, Aunt Blanche. My father said that with Aunt Mildred we were apt to be killed outright, but with Aunt Blanche we would probably die of old age while waiting to t...urn left at an intersection.
When, on one occasion, circumstances required him to be her passenger, he said that he saw parts of town previously unknown to him as she drove blocks and blocks out of her way to avoid crossing traffic.
“I would tell her, ‘You can turn here, Blanche,’” he said, “but she would never do it. We would go on three or four streets, turn right, turn right, turn right again. We were trying to get to the bank, and you could see the bank, but it might as well have been on the other side of a river.MoreLess
The extreme cases were Aunt Mildred, with whom Louis and I were forbidden to ride—and, at the other end of the scale, Aunt Blanche. My father said that with Aunt Mildred we were apt to be killed outright, but with Aunt Blanche we would probably die of old age while waiting to t...urn left at an intersection.
When, on one occasion, circumstances required him to be her passenger, he said that he saw parts of town previously unknown to him as she drove blocks and blocks out of her way to avoid crossing traffic.
“I would tell her, ‘You can turn here, Blanche,’” he said, “but she would never do it. We would go on three or four streets, turn right, turn right, turn right again. We were trying to get to the bank, and you could see the bank, but it might as well have been on the other side of a river.MoreLess
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