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well, I didn't know what my comfort zones were, but after the last few months I'm definitely learning.
not being able to drive - it drives me insane, I can't believe how i hate not being able to do stuff for myseslf and having to ask for lifts and EXPLAIN myself. whyd do I want this, why do i need to go now, why can't I wait

I've bought myself an adult trike, so at least I can get myself round the town and carry stuff, much to everyone's amusement. I can ride a bike but aren't prepared to risk damaging my shoulder falling off. Rolling Eyes

We lost the internet for a couple of days, AARRRGGGHHHHH ! How do you get ANYTHING done without it?

So , what takes you straight out of YOUR comfort zone?

xristine · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

I learned to drive again a couple of years ago. I hadn't driven for 15 years - maybe longer. I went for lessons - it was hilarious. My last car was a mini and the driving instructor said finally that if the car I was driving now was a mini, I'd be driving it perfectly... sadly it wasn't... Very Happy

I eventually started driving my own car, very tentatively to start with but now I feel quite happy and look forward to taking it out. But back then it was so frustrating, knowing how to drive but having lost the flow. I drove at 21 miles an hour and with P plates and kept putting the windscreen wipers on instead of the indicator... I couldn't believe how easy power steering was and how the brakes actually stopped the car... With the mini you had to give it a few weeks' notice.

As for computers - I could give up most every other thing but not that. I remember when there was just me and a guy in America using it (ok a slight exaggeration) and it was all text based... It's hard to believe that it has escaped from the lab and the universities into the big wide world.

But I don't think I have comfort zones. I tend to think I can deal with anything and it's only on reflection that I think: I definitely couldn't deal with that again and wonder how I did... Laughing

I spend the rest of my time telling people it's best not to go *there* if they can help it. I just wish I was as good at giving myself that sensible advice... and even more listening to it!!! Rolling Eyes

Spellbound · User Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 59 Location: Hounslow

I hate not having internet, although I managed to live without it for almost a month thanks to the idiocy of sky! I don't know how I lived without it for so long.

I'm almost always out of my comfort zone, the list of things that put me there is almost endless. The worst thing I've found recently is leaving the house without the dog, ok so leaving the house doessn't exactly fill me with joy but doing it without the dog makes me jittery.
If I have to go out without her, I HAVE to have my mobile with me or I'm a wreck but if I have the dog, I can leave the phone and almost everything else behind and it doesn't worry me.

Sharonr - Admin · Site Admin Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 2610

Left my handbag on the train last week - got it back with everything in it an hour or so later thanks to an honest kindly man. My comfort zone was shot to pieces - in London with; no money, credit cards, mobile or season ticket. Completely stranded with only the clothes I stood up in Wink

Don't want to experience that again in a hurry. Rolling Eyes

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xristine · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject:

@Sharon
woah! that would be scary. My parents used to stay with my dogs for a week when I was away at conference. My mother would fuss, asking me if I had this or that. But my father used to carry my case to the station with me and he'd say: Passport? Credit card? He was right of course.

London without a credit card would be very scary.

I'm glad it had a happy ending. When people return things in such a big city, it does make you realise that there are decent people out there.

@Spellbound - I'm impressed! I'd be climbing the walls and hanging off the ceiling lights after a day or so! The longest I've been without the internet was overnight when I moved house. I arrived on the Friday and they laid the lines in on the Saturday. That was bad enough... Very Happy