My nearly ex-wife is one of the few mothers of two who is adept at performing handbrake turns with a car - when its direction of travel is reversed through 180 degrees, before setting off at speed in the opposite direction.
Of course, she would not do such a thing on public "roads".
She is a fast lady and a very capable driver - I would readily admit, better than I - except for her lack of concentration and focus. She regularly allows herself to be distracted by her mobile 'phone or by her rear view mirror, that is trained on the life that she had previously, and the one she wants to leave behind to "regain" it.
She usually often has the rear view mirror trained on the children on the back seat. But, as she should know, they will follow her everywhere anyway, as they cannot get out of the car, being well strapped in - for dear life!
As I have said before, she's never had any sense of direction. So she's driving the car by looking only at the rear view mirror and hoping for the best. Let's trust that the road ahead is clear, with no obstacles or potholes - as the fact that the road behind looks clear gives no guarantee that the road ahead is too.
She's convinced that she is on the right road. No point in a map, SatNav, or listening to any directions. All that matters is that she alone knows where she's heading, so how can anyone else beside her be of help?
But she does not know how far she will get - because, in typical manner, she's running the car on fumes as getting to a petrol station first would be inconvenient. Impulse and spontaneity come first with this girl. Consequences follow well behind. That does not matter. The breakdown truck will need to be following closely to pick up and mend the pieces.
I did not know that by not allowing her to abuse one of our cars performing handbrake turns and similar antics (because I admit I am a bit of an "anorak" like that - cars being expensive to repair - especially when you have a few and they are not "company cars") that she would decide to practice her handbrake turning ability on her life and mine instead.
She's put her foot very hard down and I have the skid marks all over me to show for it. Maybe I'll know better next time and keep well out of the way; or not.
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I understand the need to 'get it out' but do you think you're doing yourself good by all this? Break-ups are so hard to go through, I think you are probably better than all this and will end up friends with your ex in time. But all this bitterness is bound to rub off on the children, no matter how far you try to keep it away from them. xx