Guys...Let me jot down the steps it takes for me to get the car. I hope you will have some sort of understanding for next time.

1. Get out of work. (This step may not always exist.)
2. Get call from friend asking me to secure a vehicle.
3. Decide that going out may not be such a bad idea, and agree to attempt to secure vehicle.
4. Make excuse why I can keep current vehicle longer. (This step may not always exist.)
5. Get home and allow potential occupants to work out the details of a plan.
6. Mentally fabricate a legal story that would explain my needs for said vehicle.
7. Tell vehicle owner the story that explains the car's usage. Usage may include: Gas Consumption, Seat rearranging, trash in vehicle, added miles, etc.
8. Wait for Gary becuase Mom seems incapable of making an informed decision by herself. **
9. Wait for Gary to do nothing, and Mom makes/says/does everything anyways. **
10. Do all necessary chores, and promise to do additional chores the next day or upon my return.
11. Wait for vehicle owner to deliver vehicle. ***
12. Bring deliverer home. ***
13. Wait even longer while Mom lectures me that I only talk to her when I need the vehicle. ****
14. Listen to family member's describe to me, my familial social patterns. ****
15. Listen to family member's describe how I do "nothing" around the house. ****
16. Search for the keys because Mom never keeps track.
17. Come back online/to the phone and listen to complaints the lenght of the process thus far.
18. (Optional) Defend myself from angry friends who failed to realize that there was a risk of my not getting the car. (Potential cycle end.)
19. Drive, depending on the plan, to pick up friends, who, by Murphy's Law, will always live on opposite corners of the earth. *
20. Risky activity period. This period may also be, and usually is, the most enjoyable. *
21. Re-run previously stated risks to bring guests back home. *
22. Top of gas if necessary, if financially able, as to hide gas consumption.
23. Return vehicle.
24. Be returned home, and feel guilty of vehicle owner having to drive at late hours. ***

* This is where I worry about the car getting stolen, or getting into an accident or getting pulled over, losing my license, and subsequent legal and parent issues. Granted something has not happened, It does not mean that it will not happen. These risks carry greater punishments/come into existence when the first guest enters the vehicle.

** If Ysler

*** If Treppy

**** Steps that can be re-ordered.

The entire process (up to step 19), not inclusive of excluded steps or steps that are not mentioned, takes, on average, 45 minutes. This process may take upwards of 1 hour.

There are basic legal principles that one must understand to fully comprehend all the steps. One must be intimately familiar with restrictions on my Junior Operator's License (JOL) as well as the limits imposed on a regular Driver's License.


These are just the steps I have to run through EVERY time, occasionally, I have steps that happen once, or twice. These steps do not make it onto the general list.


It is important for you guys to note that:
- If there is no plan, I cannot make up a story that would explian the mileage, gas consumption, and everything else I have to deal with, but you don't experience.
- There is ALWAYS the risk of my not getting a vehicle.
- It is a recreational outing for you, while a large percentage is a task for me.
- If this is not good enough for you. Seek alternative measures for transportation.

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