Grandpa's Wisdom

As I was driving from New York to North Carolina the other night I got to thinking about Miss Buffham, my second grade teacher at Woodlawn Elementary School. It relates to driving because what I was remembering was the time she asked our class a question related to driving.

The questions was what we thought was the hardest thing about driving a car.

Miss Buffham was young and hadn't been teaching very long. I didn't think that at the time, only that she was pretty. It's hard to imagine now why she would have posed such a question to a group of second graders, let alone spend about an hour of class time on such a topic. At the time we class members didn't wonder such things, only enjoyed the challenge, especially we boys. Driving was a "boy thing" so the girls didn't really participate too much, as I recall. I remember the array of answers we offered were far reaching and demonstrated a pretty good understanding of driving a car by eight and nine year old students.

After more than an hour of rather creative possibilities, we still hadn't come to the answer Miss Buffham considered to be her greatest challenge when driving. Can you?