It is an awful thing when you give the person you love best the impression that you don’t feel safe in his presence, even though, very often, his presence is the only thing that makes you feel truly safe; it is a new flavor of guilt, and I don’t like the taste at all.
Because I sense this could use some backstory: Yesterday we were making our two daily trips on the freeway, as we’ve been doing all week; we’re in a rented SUV, Lloyd is driving and I’m passengering; as always, the traffic is bad, and because we don’t normally drive such big vehicles, I’m having a terrible time judging things like distance and speed and space cushions. When we got back to the hotel, Lloyd asked if I was okay; when I said I was, and asked why, he answered, “Well, I kept getting the feeling that you thought I was going to get us into a crash.” I felt about *this* big.
For the record, Lloyd is a terrific driver, careful and safe, and doesn’t deserve this sort of nerve from me.
Well, then, in that case…
How dare you.
Also, I listened to Dune unabridged on CD during a recent long-ass drive and when I saw the word ‘bene gesserit’ I thought to myself, ‘Huh. So, that’s how he spelled it.’
the finish on the dashboard of our family’s car was worn right down to the white whateveritwastheymadeitoutofthen on the passenger side from my mother’s constantly clutching it.