Since Car Talk with Click & Clack is already taken.
Amanda: I should drive your Jeep to school. There were two Jeeps in stadium [parking lot] parked up on the ice like you see at the dealership.
Me: Yeah, I don’t think so.
Amanda: Really. Cars can’t park there.
Dwayne: Jeeps can’t park on ice either.
Amanda: These did. But a car tried and it dented its back thingy.
Megan: Back thingy? Do you mean its bumper?
Amanda: Yeah, that.
Smileys and Sunglasses, Jeep Style
Thingy – (noun) Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
Amanda: I saw a Jeep the other day.
Megan: In the driveway?
Me: Yeah, I see two now.
Amanda: No, in town. I saw a Jeep the other day with smiley lights {makes gesture indicating they were near the windshield area}. Only these had slits. {puts hand over eye like glasses}
Me: Yeah. Wait, were they smileys or slits?
Amanda: They were smileys with sunglasses. {puts hand over eye like glasses}
Me: {making fun of Amanda’s hand gesture}
Amanda: Yeah, sunglasses. Ya know? {makes hand gesture again} Only the smileys weren’t metal or plastic. They were pull over thingies. And they weren’t yellow.
What they don’t teach in Driver’s Ed, but should?
Dashboard – (in an automobile or similar vehicle) a panel beneath the front window having various gauges and accessories for the use of the driver; instrument panel.
Amanda: [the other day] Dwayne asked me to get his gloves off the dashboard in his truck.
Dwayne: {shakes head and grins}
Amanda: I wasn’t sure what a dashboard was so I just walked over to the truck and hoped I would figure it out. I knew I was taking too long, though.
Dwayne: I told her it was inside the truck. Ya know, that thing between you and the windshield?
Amanda: I don’t know what a dashboard is. They don’t teach you this in school.
Me: They need to teach you what a dashboard is?
Amanda: Yeah. If they did, then I would know.
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You see, that’s why women shouldn’t drive cars
Still, they’re young and I reckon they will learn something about cars soon enough.
Brings to mind the day my wife asked me what that light that looked like a water can was. Why, how long has it been on? All week she says. It was the oil indicator light! Sheesh.
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Anne
Twitter: AnneOnline
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January 6th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
@Sire, I admit I shared this one with the family tonight at dinner. Megan [my oldest] started laughing. Dwayne shook his head. I’m not sure Amanda got it.
I don’t get it since my dad showed me where all the fluids went and wouldn’t let me drive in reverse when I got my first car – 1980 Chevy Citation, 4-speed, no A/C in South Florida! 
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Twitter: AussieSire
Yeah, well it looks like you’re going to have to work on Amanda before she blows up the family car
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Twitter: Bloggertalk
I’m sitting here laughing my head off. My son is turning 16 soon and wants to go for his g-1. The other day we were parked downtown while hubby was in paying a bill. I said jokingly to him, “hey move on up here to the front seat and move the van.” He replies, “I would, but I don’t know what pedal is for reverse.”
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Anne
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January 11th, 2010 at 8:44 am
@Rose, Amanda is a great source of entertainment in our house. Words fail her and she seems so un-phased by it all. She’s actually quite bright and a good driver, just don’t ask her to tell you the proper name of anything.
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Rose
Twitter: Bloggertalk
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January 12th, 2010 at 1:52 am
@Anne, That’s good to know. Hope my son will be too.
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