Hoon

So today was the first real full day I've lived here in Brisbane, not including yesterday when Ruckus was here and it was kind of just like we were on holidays.
I drove Ruckus home last night, to her new house which is a few suburbs away.
That was, well kind of scary. It was raining for a long time so the road was very wet and slippery, so that didn't help. Then of course there was the problem that I hadn't driven a manual car for a long time, so I wasn't used to clutches, hillstarts and the like. On top of those factors, I had never driven this car before and it was a quite different driving experience to my mum's 4WD.
So after doing a bouncy slow and generally terrible lap around the block, we decided to head out on the main roads to Ari's palace (Ruckus's new place). Along the way I had a few bouncy starts, a few times where i might have over revved the engine, aaand I accidentally did about four burnouts when I tried to do a handbrake start at traffic lights. I must have looked like either a silly hoon or someone who just couldn't drive whatsoever. Good thing I didn't pass any cops.
The way back wasn't so bad, I only spun the the tyres once, or maybe twice, and there was someone in a wanky yellow car revving his engine really loud next to me most of the way home so I probably looked nice and gentle on the accelerator compared to him.

But we made it there, and I made it back, and we didn't die.
So it worked.