who's gonna drive you home tonight?

Published: November 7, 2008, 11:12 pm

Anne and I took Nolan out to Glendale tonight for this art thing he likes to do. After we dropped him off, Anne said, "Hey, I want to have a dinner date with my husband." Bonus, unexpected dinner dates are always awesome, so I didn't even put up token resistance, and we had an awesome meal together while Nolan did his thing a few blocks away. When we were finished, Nolan met us in the parking garage, and wanted to drive home. He's had his permit for about 5 weeks, and though he's a very competent and careful driver, we were both a little nervous about letting him drive on the freeway at night. "You've never driven on the freeway at night," Anne said. "Maybe we should just take side streets." "But the freeway is much faster, and we have Family Guy on TiVo at home," Nolan said. "We're concerned that you don't have a lot of nighttime freeway driving experience," she said, invoking the dreaded Royal We. He put his hand on my shoulder and quite seriously said, "Wil, how am I going to

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