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Thursday, December 6, 1962, page 55 (of 66)

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became calm enough to let me drive him home, though. One of the greatest hazards is the inadvertent car pool or car-pool-by-absorption. Here's how it works. It is late. Your two daughters are at the movies. They are to call when they get out. The phone rings. You venture into the night. When you arrive at the theater, six girls wave you to the curb. The other four are waifs left in the night by the above-mentioned helium-heads. The waifs do not ask for whom the car comes—they know it comes for them. Do they all live in the same neighborhood? What a question. Lindy lives on the woodsy side of Woodside, Susan dwells on Black Mountain, Irma lives by the shore . . . I have found that a Great Circle course is the best; sometimes you get back home within the hour. BUT, FINALLY, there comes that happy day when the young are able to drive themselves and some long-suffering father coughs up the dough for a car. Our girls pooled (can this be a verb?) in an extremely-compact, economy-sized car designed, if the number of seats is any indication, for two people. Somehow, five high-school girls got into the thing every morning. And this was in the days when young ladies wore an average of two crinoline petticoats. Something had to give, so the girls passed a rule: no more than three books per passenger. Now that it is all over, I cannot think of a single redeeming feature of the car pool. It is all bad. Except that it is funny once in a while and in mine you sometimes got an earful of how youth views life. For what that is worth. If I ever have to car pool again, I'll be more selective. I won't carry anybody but Trappist monks—the ones who take vows of silence. And I won't take them if they bounce.

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