[[Still A Girly Girl: Tests Of Knowledge And Of Character]]

Nov 5, 2005

Tests Of Knowledge And Of Character

I rode the short bus to Ellensburg today, to re-take my written test. Since I first took it more than two years ago, it is a requirement that I take and pass it again before being allowed to schedule a driving test. I failed the test I took yesterday. After five or six hours of studying, I handed over another $20 to take the test again this afternoon and got 100%.

On the bus home, I was bored and chatting from my cell phone (yes, I know, pathetic.) when the woman across the aisle made note of the MS Ribbon of Hope pin I have on my bag.

"That's pretty," she said. "What's it for? Some kind of cancer?"

"Multiple Sclerosis," I responded, giving her one I had in my pocket.

"My brother-in-law died from that. He was normally 240 pounds and when he died he was down to 60."

I commented that his MS must have been very progressive for him to have died from it.

"He didn't have it very long," she said. "He was in Germany during the war, and I think he caught it there."

I told her that Multiple Sclerosis isn't contagious.

Matter-of-factly she said, "It was [contagious] during the war."

I didn't quite know how to react to this without being argumentative, so I turned back to my chatting and spent most of the rest of the ride in silence, except for the beep of my keypad.

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Posted by erynthenerd @ 9:00 AM

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