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Leaning Into Our Fears
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When people play the icebreaker Two Truths and a Lie, I usually have one of the best true stories among the group. I tell people, truthfully, that when I was 8 years old, a car ran into my house and hit me while I was sleeping in my bed. True story, this actually did happen to me. I usually make a joke about getting thrown across the room into the closet, and then I came out 10 years later.
But the incident belies a long-standing fear I have had since then.
A Lingering Fear
Needless to say, I never got around to getting a driver’s license. I have tried in the past. Unsuccessfully.
During my last driving lesson in Los Angeles in 2013, I tried to drive around a parked ice cream truck, overcorrected, and broke a side mirror of a car parked on the street. I was so paralyzed from what is a pretty fixable accident (solved with $75 cash and a new mirror from the auto shop down the street) that I haven’t been behind the wheel since then.
