Why do we drive on a parkway & park in a driveway
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> > Don't feel bad--I didn't know what they were talking about either. I
was just
> > too embarrassed to say anything. Being a Yank, I'm not quite used to
all the
> > Brit terminology just quite yet.
>
> Curt, in some ways you have it easy. I dropped my oldest son off for his
> first day of kindergarten today -- like his near-four year old brother he
> knows the hood is a bonnet, the trunk is a boot, and the softtop is a
hood.
> Hopefully they won't get into schoolyard fights over car terminology.
Proud
> moment #287: it starts to rain while we're out in the TR4 and Riley says
> "we better put up the hood." #288: Ben says "just put on your hat and
duck."
>
> Granted the generator is... still the generator, at least until I upgrade
to
> an alternator. For my part, I see that in England the garage is the
service
> station, but where do they keep their cars?
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