Well, in this country, Jill, it is a little difficult to get around without
driving. But then I was influenced by On the Road at the start of my
career. (Ha, what a strange word for my writing life.) So across the desert
we did go, Viv and I, with a merry band of travelling magazine subscription
salesmen. Many tales were hatched along the track. & in Sydney I drove a
truck for a while with an old bloke called Alf - just a 2-and-a-half ton
Toyota, but it also lead to many a tale. And who can forget the drive-in
cinemas' influence on our sex lives! Getting bogged while smooching near
Perry Lakes, or showing a new girl the sites/sights from Kings Park ... Ah,
driving has a lot of benefits I can tell you.
& I often found my way and from a bar or two in a car. Before the laws were
changed, we had to drive out of town for Sunday sessions to get pissed as
young men. Then we'd gun our Holdens, Fords and Valiants, and race each
other back to Perth with a young lady hanging out the passenger side
window, letting the air blow her hair like a flag (or vomitting down the
side of the car).
Such fun. Now I drive to and from work, and two and from movies. You don't
park when you're 'courting' in your late fifties: there are more
comfortable places to go. (Mort Sahl once described cars as 'motel rooms on
wheels'. Perhaps that's a male perspective ...)
As Creeley wrote in "I Know a Man" -
... shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.
Andrew
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