re: learning to drive: I got my drivers licence recently, so last year at about this time I was spending a Sunday every now and then lurching around the large parking lot at our local IKEA, with my very patient dh as instructor. I was starting to tell a story at work about how it was kind of funny seeing this huge parking lot with me and several other newbie drivers creeping around, and a colleague burst out "Full of "rabbits" hopping around, huh?" Just thought that was a perfect description 
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Winter riding is much less about badassery and much more about bundle-uppery. - malkin
1995 Kona Cinder Cone commuterFrankenbike/Selle Italia SLR Lady Gel Flow
2008 white Nakamura Summit Custom mtb/Terry Falcon X
2000 Schwinn Fastback Comp road bike/Specialized Jett