fair paris is burning after all

[wayaheadofyou]

So in the Agora, wandering around as people often do, is a young woman in a hat. (It's not a Raspberry Beret, though it may as well be.) She's all bundled up for winter, and apparently it was damp where she was, because she's using her mittens to brush drops off the wool at her shoulders, trying to keep it from soaking in

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[someyoungpup]

"I'm pretty good at driving backward for way longer than I have to." Jeff shrugs and crosses his arms over his chest as he speaks. "Don't know how useful that is outside of long driveways. The Fast and the Furious stunt team hasn't come scouting yet."

[wayaheadofyou]

"Ah, now the real question is, how are you at parallel parking?"

Jena does not have a valid English driver's license yet, because Jena can't drive on the other side of the road yet. She has told herself that these things take time, but the reality is that she takes cabs or the underground or the bus everywhere anyway so it's not really necessary to have a car at all. And also that she's kind of a bad driver.

[someyoungpup]

"I'm fantastic at parallel parking. I teach driver's ed so I try to be responsible for as few curb destroying monsters as possible." He also happens to think that shitty drivers are hilarious as long as they don't hurt anybody. It's how he winds up with various road sign and mailbox souvenirs.

"I bet you're a parallel parking champ." He really has no idea, but it sounds good.

[wayaheadofyou]

"I'm alright," she smiles, eerily. Like she does. "I live in the city, so I don't drive much anymore, but in high school I had a nice car I tried to keep nice. You drive careful, when you're driving something you really love."

[someyoungpup]

"For normal people, yeah. But there's plenty that don't take care of their stuff." He shrugs. Jeff's truck is his baby, but he's not exactly the most careful person on the planet regarding other things so he doesn't pursue the subject further.

"What city? If that sounds too much like a creeper thing you don't have to answer."