March 26, 2012
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Homework Assignment 3/19
Class, I enjoyed your last assignment. I love this interaction we have. It's great to foster such open classroom discussion. Thank you for humoring me. You all get an A+.
Now here's your next assignment:
A.
B.
Answer either A or B or for extra credit answer both questions. Make sure you answer all the questions clearly and concisely
Now get to work
A. I have no tattoos. I have always thought about getting one however I figure that I'll get it and become bored with it and will have to add more and then more and more and more and soon it will become a full-blown addiction. Also I have never got a tattoo because years ago when I had considered it, my cousin, a tattoo artist, rubbed some of the ink on my skin because I told him I had such horrible skin allergies and sure enough I broke out so he figured I'm allergic to most of the ink that would be used so he told me not to get any work done. I guess having the chicken pox three times worked out for me.
B. I currently drive an automatic. It's a Chevy Blazer. I have never driven a manual transmission. A car dealer said he would teach me if I bought a manual transmission truck. I didn't buy the truck so I never learned. I know how to drive a tractor but that has different workings than a car's manual transmission. I don't know if I'll ever learn to use manual because more and more automatics are taking over.
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No tattoos, but I have wanted one for a while. I have no idea what I want or where I want it, so if I never figure that out then I guess I'll never get one.
I have an automatic transmission, but I know how to drive a manual. My brothers first car was a camaro and he taught me. He said it would be beneficial to me one day.
I don't drive a stick
I drive an automatic
This was a haiku
Manual. I push it everywhere.
nope, no tattoos. i considered getting one for my birthday for the past two years, but never got around to it last year and was talked out of it this year. i picked one out. a small, quirky sun. needs to be colorful. no idea if i'll ever do it or not.
automatic. i tried to drive a stick once. i'm not particularly coordinated. considering how bad i am at driving lately, the automatic is quite challenging enough.
easy homework this week. are you going to grade it tough? or is this an easy A grade?
A. I do not have any tattoos. I do not want any tattoos because.. well, I do not want any tattoos.
B. My current mode is automatic. Yes, I know how to drive a manual.
No I don't have any tattoos and it is probably because I am afraid of needles.
Yes I can drive a stick but have not owned one in years. My current car is automatic.
These are the best questions EVAR.
A: Here is the link to my blog with a pic of my tat at the end. My husband (who is a really fucking good artist) drew it. I had been wanting one since I was about 16 (I'm 27), so I thought about what I wanted for a long time because I figured it would be the only one I ever got. What does it mean? Well, the most poignant thing is freedom, which has alot to do with me growing up with my dad who is a diagnosed sociopath. The other part kind of relates to my screen name. The birds breaking off of the feather....well, I think that things can be broken down, but done so gracefully--beautifully-- for lots of other reasons, but sometimes just because life doesn't offer us another option...if that makes sense.
B: My first car was a civic with a manual transmission. I drove that bitch everywhere...even in the mountains!!!!! Haha. I loved that car, but I needed a bigger car because my mom doesn't have a dependable car and we end up going to the mountains (like 7 hours away) to pick my sisters up for breaks and such. So I have a Fusion now, which is nice, but it's an automatic. The only thing I don't miss about it getting on hills and worrying about not being to hit the gas fast enough not to bump into someone behind me. I was always paranoid about it. XD
A. No.
B. I've driven a manual but can't say I remember how. I have a terrible memory.
no tattoos
I want a tattoo
I drive an automatic
I want a stick shift.
(and yes I know how to drive manual. it's more fun to auto cross)
A.
My overall tattoo was done in two phases. The first was a Luther Rose at the top of my back, and then almost a year later I got two Czech Lions on either side of the Rose. The Rose symbolises my Lutheran faith and upbringing, and the Lions are for my love of Europe and the Czech Republic, which was my first country abroad. (Plus, the Lion looks wicked awesome.) So yeah, this spans my upper back but it's placed high and I have to wear collared shirts to conceal it. Most people IRL don't know that I have this - not even my parents (well, they don't know about the Lions).
I originally wasn't planning on the Lions but a very stressful and angry time last July spontaneously sparked the Lions lol.
I won't be getting another tattoo. In my 'wild' time I had Matthew 28:20 in Czech planned out and a peacock feather (favourite Bible verse and peacocks are exquisite), but I don't know where I'd put them and that means more covering up lol.
B. I drive automatic and I have no clue how to drive manual. I'd like to learn it someday.
... See, I told you that I'd be a good girl and answer this week! And homework passes exist BECAUSE I SAY SO.
I got my tattoos the old fashioned way---multiple surgeries. The scalpel has done its job on my chest, stomach, legs and face. As to a tattoo as you meant it, I don't have one and never desired one. In my former legalistic way of thinking, I did not think they were approved of the Creator. I seem gals in public with some pretty sexy tattoos, but I really don't like to see many on a person.
I only have automatic cars now. I drove a stick ship up until about 6 months ago.
frank
I don't have any tattoos and don't plan on getting any.
My method of transportation is using my legs, so I guess that's manually operated, although it has been known to be automatic as well. Go figure.
A. Yes, a flower I drew. It's on the top of my right foot. I got it when I was 18, and my friend talked me into skipping Econ 101 & getting tattoos instead. My only regret is that I had NO IDEA how the whole process worked, and I inadvertently stiffed the guy on his tip. Had I realized it sooner, I would have gone back & tipped him VERY well . . . no idea where he works now, though.
B. Automatic, but I can drive a manual. Not well at first.
A. No, I don't have any tattoos, unless the small ink dot that is on my right arm from when I was accidentally jabbed with a calligraphy pen back in 7th grade art counts. I don't think I'd ever get a tattoo. Too afraid of the pain!
B. I have a car, but I walk places whenever I can. My first car was a 1967 Ford Mustang, with a manual transmission, so I had to learn how to drive one.
I have one pretty nice sized tattoo, it's wings spread out with a heart in the middle, done in black n gray, the heart is made out of feathers and the wings have a ton of small feathers in them, not the typical long feathers you would see in wings, I absolutely love it and I am planning 2 more.
I drive an automatic, though I was learning once a long time ago to drive stick , but my friend's car got repo'd and no one else had a manual so I never learned ... but def not opposed to learning if someone is willing
A I do have a tattoo. It is a blue heart with a crooked little halo. I was in college and extremely crazy at the time and needed attention and came up with this idea to make myself the focus of a certain someones affections on the spur of the moment. Now i'm stuck with it.
B. I drive an automatic wouldn't know the first thing about driving a manual car. I've had this car 13 years so I don't suppose I need to learn.
3/20/2012-----------------------------------------------------------------------Marsha Bryant
A. (1) I don't have a tattoo. A (2) I would kinda like to have one but I don't want to go to jail
B. (1) My car has a manual transmission - 5 speed as a matter of fact - (2) Yes, driving a manual gives you so much more control of the vehicle. but I do walk to work and to most places if the weather isn't inclement .
A. A panda but like a cartoon panda. I got it because I try everything right away at every opportunity. I never wanted another one though.
B. Automatic. Always wanted to learn how to drive manual.
A. I have one tattoo, a blue and pink butterfly on my right wrist. I got it because butterflies symbolize change, and I was hoping for some change. The thing is, my Mac crashed and I didn't want to take it in because I didn't want to get in trouble for some things....so I didn't have enough money to buy a new computer. But I went and spent $100 on a tattoo. Go figure.
B. I have an automatic car. I don't know how to drive a stick. I'd like to learn, someday. I've heard they're fun to drive on backroads and country roads.
No tats. Never say never. I can understand women who have had mastectomies and get tattoos. Not sure what I would do in their shoes. Automatic, currently. Yes, I've had two cars with manual transmissions in my life.
No tatoos, but I do have a micro chip implanted by the evil Vet to try to keep me down. I drive an SUV, and it's an automatic. I'm too cool for a manual.
no tats, I love manual, perfer it, but I have an automatic trans right now. sorry for the boring answer!
A. No and No. Don't care for them.
B. My feet walk really fast I must say. I got to school in record time today.
a. I don't have a tattoo but for some reason I've been really wanting one the past 2 years. I don't want it too big, and I want it on my wrist but I'm afraid that its going to be like once I get it and the novelty wears off I'm going to be like "crap this is on my body forever" and as an elementary school teacher I'd really prefer to have it covered which will be a bit difficult if its on my wrist... so I don't know...
b. automatic. I don't know how to drive a manual and if I can avoid it, I won't learn... its just so much extra work to get from point A to B, I'm not trying to be fancy or anything! haha
A) No. No. Because I fear the pain and fear the regret I would feel later.
B) My clunker is automatic. My sweet ride is manual. (and yes, she's sweet).
No tats for me, just scars, boney protrusions and a crooked nose from assorted injuries.
I drove a manual for decades. I drive a company truck for work, so I takes what I gets. It is an automatic. Our family car is also an automatic.
A. Nope, no tattoos. I'm sure you'd just make fun of it if I did get one.
But seriously, I feel like if I'm going to put something on my body permanently, it should mean something, and I can't think of anything that means that much. So I haven't. Also, it would be in a place where people only see it if I want them to see it.
B. It's an automatic. Considering how long it took me to learn to drive that, I shudder to think how horrid I would be at a manual. Although I suck less at driving now than I have in the past, so maybe I could avoid crashing into things now. MAYBE.
A: I do not currently have a tattoo, but only because I have no idea what I would choose.
B: My car is an automatic. I technically know how to drive a manual, I just really, really suck at it. So I might as well say that I don't know how to drive manual.
@heythereJOANN - I think that's how it went for me. I wanted to get one in high school and then in college but I just never got around and then I had some ink placed on my skin and I was allergic so there went that.
Yes, it is very nice to know how to drive stick
@Rob_of_the_Sky -
An automatic
Transmission is the best one
It is so easy
@npr32486 - hahaha...you should get some horses to help you pull it, they're probably cheaper than gas
@promisesunshine - I thought since people followed rules people would get an easy A. Yeah, you need colorful tattoos. I remember old men in church that had tattoos from their years in the military and it always looked so drab but then I don't think they ever got touch ups.
@Peridot21 - that's good, I know some religions teach that you can't enter heaven if you have tattoos...or maybe that's just certain branches of Judaism and I also think they can't be buried in the Jewish cemeteries
That's cool you know how. You know something I don't know.
@Grannys_Place - I always forget about the needles and I hate needles, the last time I had to get shots at the hospital or when they took blood, I fainted.
All my cars have been automatic. I see fewer and fewer manual vehicles these days.
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX - that is a cool tattoo and I like the story behind it, does your Fusion have the automatic parallel parking
@ShimmerBodyCream - yeah if I had a manual I'd probably have to watch a video or read a book every morning to remember how to drive it.
@James2012 - Oh I thought you might have a Ric Flair tattoo
@Thatslifekid -
That's a nice haiku
Never thought I'd see two here
Great answer today
@Cestovatelka - I like your tattoos and also your ideas from your "wild" days. I wish I had just thought through some of the stuff I wanted instead of getting it. I am surprised they still make manual cars. With cars now featuring automatic parallel parking I am just shocked.
@ANVRSADDAY - wow, that's impressive changing over only 6 months ago. I had such a difficult time going from a gear shift on my steering wheel to one on the floor and then back to the steering wheel. I still find myself reaching for the floor every once in a while.
I used to think that about tattoos because it's in the law portion of the old testament however I often forget that Christ kept it perfectly in our place.
@KnightInCROATIANarmor - yeah that restless leg syndrome would be automatic transmission
@ZepBlueEyedGirl - I went with a lot of friends to a place in Mankato. When you pay with card they have the tip section like at restaurants. I remember the first time my friend motioned for me to come over and whispered how much he should tip. The guy heard us and he said 10% was standard so my friend gave 20%. When I had my eyebrow pierced I think I ended up doing 30%.
@accidentalangel - ouch, that's a horrible way to get a tattoo, I remember we'd draw "tattoos" in grade school. It was rather stupid.
Wow, that's an awesome car, my dad's first car was an early 60s Mustang but he didn't have it long because he totaled it coming home from college when he hit a cow that was standing in the middle of the road.
@wyckdstorm - sounds like a nice tattoo
My parents never had manual and the driving school I attended said they'd teach me how to use manual but the instructor told me that the trends are shifting to automatic so I never learned
@LadyofWaters - yeah the removal procedures are pretty pricey and painful but if it is really bad I suppose it would be worth the removal.
Wow, that's a long time for a car and I just got thinking, I've had my Blazer for 10 years but it's probably 13 years old.
@mlbncsga - excellent answer, why would you go to jail for a tattoo? I have heard that one of the reasons people prefer manual is better control. I remember riding in a rally type car with a friend on country roads and that was quite the experience.
@crashthedr3am - that sounds like a nice tattoo, I figure I should learn manual transmission one of these days as well
@crazy2love - get in trouble? interesting...that is quite a way to get a tattoo. For some reason I thought you drove stick. I think the only place it would be wise to drive stick any more is in rural areas. I had a friend who had a stick SUV and we took it into Minneapolis and he got stuck in rush hour. That wasn't pleasant for him.
@sleekpeek - yeah I guess with tattoos one should never say never because circumstances change just like blood alcohol levels.
I have never had a manual and I think my parents only owned one manual car and that was my mom's car and I can't remember the model now.
@BoulderSalem - I have an automatic SUV as well. Oh those microchips, I've always wanted one for my cats but I just never got around to it.
@DivaJyoti - I couldn't imagine moving from one type of transmission to another. I have always had automatic but the biggest change was when I went from having my shift on the steering wheel to having it on the floor. That was huge and I found myself reaching for the steering wheel.
@StrawberrySunrises - well that's good, I think tattoos are a fad much like everything else, I have thought that kids will see their parents with ink work and they won't want it and since it's acceptable it won't be as cool. Like when I was a kid hardly anyone had tattoos and it was a sign of rebellion.
well I guess your feet are a manual transmission
@raspberryjade - I had a friend who taught kindergarten that got a tramp stamp in college and it was pretty big. Well when she was teaching kindergarten and helped a kid tie his shoes she bent over and I guess it was visible and a kid told his mom that the teacher had a drawing on her butt and because it was a private religious school people made a huge deal over it. I have another friend who teaches 4th grade and he takes his class to a water park every year and he has a tattoo of a Jesus fish or maybe it's a sun, can't remember but he gets a lot of stares after that trip which is why he has it at the end of the year.
@Kellsbella - I have always had a feeling that if I got a tattoo I'd grow bored with it and then I'd add more and more and more and it would become an addiction.
Well that's sweet
@Aloysius_son - oh yeah I have a lot of those "tattoos" like the spot on my leg where I was bitten by a spider years ago or the time I took a cleat to the leg and it cut me from my knee to ankle.
Company cars are nice and I like that attitude of taking what's offered
@leaflesstree - I totally agree with your ideas for the tattoos. I think I'd only want a few people seeing it but then that could give me horrible ideas.
Oh you've had accidents?
@randaness - there's just so much to choose from, I mean do I go with my football, the ministry, music, my writing, my family, my surroundings...too much
I only drive automatic although I have driven tractors but that is a different transmission than a car transmission
@godfatherofgreenbay - No. But it has pretty much everything else. I got the model with everything but the GPS. XD
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX - see I have never understood the point of GPS. I know the location of every place I want to visit and if it's somewhere new I'll just print out the directions from the internet. I guess if I didn't live in a rural area GPS would make more sense. I almost bought a GPS this last Christmas. I was going to get a knock-off Dollar General dash mount system for $50 but they sold out.
A. I don't have any tats. I've considered getting one, though. I posted about it. It would be Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, kinda holding a bass...
B. I learned to drive on a manual transmission Nissan Sentra. I LOVE it. Sadly, you're right. The automatics are taking over. The manuals are only a pain on heavy traffic, and especially full-on traffic jams. But, for light traffic, highway driving...awesome.
@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - I think I saw that tattoo idea, I liked it but then I really like that Virtuvian Man and all the parodies of it.
I had a friend who had this manual transmission SUV and we got stuck in a rush hour in Minneapolis and that was horrendous but another friend of mine had a Mitsubishi Lancer rally type car and he took me out in the country on some windy roads...that was a blast.
Sorry, teacher, I'm late to class.
A. I have no tattoos, and won't likely get one, although my sister wants me to. Several of my sisters have gotten similar ones as a sibling bonding thing, since we all found each other a few years ago. I'm not the only holdout; my sister Susan doesn't have any, either. I won't get one because I like natural, unmarked skin better...plus, like you, I'm probably super allergic to the ink and have irrationally sensitive skin.
B. Automatic. I did learn to drive a stick when I git married, because a manual Mazda GLC was the only car we had for the first year, but it scared the crap out of me at first, because we lived in Virginia then, and there were hills at every stopsign.
@godfatherofgreenbay - We have been doing quite a bit of traveling lately. My sisters are in college in the mountains, and it helps if we need to find an alternate route because of construction, or if we make a wrong turn and there isn't an exit nearby. The GPS we have was given to us by my in-laws, but I love it. I really do, because I have the directional sense of a brick. LOL
@godfatherofgreenbay - no, well only once but it was very minor. But no point to tempting fate.
@godfatherofgreenbay - hahaha - around these parts most people with tattoos have gotten them while in jail....
....there are some great artist in jail but some really bad ones also.
@musicmom60 - that's sort of cool about the sibling bonding. I've heard of other siblings doing something like that with tattoos. I guess I don't have to worry about sibling tattoos because I have no siblings.
Stop signs...#1 reason why I don't have manual. I would fear stalling out every single time.
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX - well that's pretty handy then. I hadn't thought of alternate routes with construction.
@leaflesstree - I've had 5 accidents, 4 involved deer.
@mlbncsga - yeah I haven't seen any good prison tattoos. I knew a girl who made a kit and did her own tattoos...yeah they weren't good.
@godfatherofgreenbay - I would tell you to move out of the middle of nowhere and come here, but we have deer too. They just had a deer hunt in the county park not far from where I grew up.
@leaflesstree - one of the deer I hit was in a town, a town of 700 but it was in town. This deer ran out of the graveyard and I swerved and then right where I swerved was another deer so I swerved back and boom. The deer hobbled off on three legs.
@godfatherofgreenbay - The college is about 30 minutes from Asheville, NC, and we were on I-40 once, for an additional 2.5 hours because they closed the interstate down from 4 lanes to 1. It was awful. If we had had our Tom Tom, we probably could have taken some back country road and made it there without the aggravation. Did I mention we were literally 20 minutes from our hotel exit?! It was awful. LOL
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX - that sounds like me a couple of weeks ago when I took my dad to a hospital in Madison. There was an accident ahead of us on the beltline and it's a 3 lanes going into Madison and it was gridlocked and soon people start driving on the shoulder and when that got congested people started driving in the snow-filled ditch. IT WAS INSANE! And it was all going on in front of the NBC studios. Well we hit the gridlock with 3 miles to go to the exit for the hospital and it took us about an hour to go that far.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Geez! That is insane.
I guess this message is totally unparalleled.
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