The Purple Dragon Blog

BEIJING –A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.

“It’s these learner drivers,” said a witness. “They’re always turning left after they signal right.”

No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.

The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog “was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive,” according to Xinhua.

“She thought she would let the dog ‘have a try’ while she operated the accelerator and brake,” the report said. “They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car.”

Friends say that the dog had watched the pod-racing scene in ‘Star Wars: Episode I’ too many times.

Xinhua did not say what kind of dog or vehicles were involved but Li paid for repairs.

I don’t think that many things sting as much as the discovery of missed opportunity. To live a life you hate, but must accept, and then later discover that your acceptance was needless, hurts like nothing else.

One thing about me is that my social skills have never been up to the standards of everyone else’s. Somehow, I was born without the knowledge of behaviour that for others is instinctive. For me, socialising is a complicated game of chess, one where the rules fluctuate at irregular intervals without my knowledge. I’ve always, always felt alone, and different, and alien. So lonely and alone. I have trouble making friends because I don’t know how.

In high school I accepted this, because allowing it to get to me wouldn’t do anything. But then - a conversation with Mum revealed that she had talked to the teachers and the stupid fools thought that I didn’t want friends, because I had been offered friendships and hadn’t taken them. But I can’t see when I’m offered friendship, and I can’t respond! If they had told me that I had been offered friendships I would have tried to do something about it! These people knew about my social understanding problems, yet none of them thought to point this out! They knew about my troubles understanding people and behaviour… that I didn’t know how to interact… yet they just assumed that I didn’t want friends.

How many teenage girls do you come across that don’t want friends???

It was their job to help me with things like these. I was so alone, so sad, in so much pain, and I needn’t have been.

Haven’t posted for ages… sorry. Will try to improve my posting rate. In the meantime, wanna look at… cats that look like Hitler?