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  • 5/11/2025
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his | dG1fd2kxUFJqb19CSVk
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00:00And joining me for today's topic, book critic Wendy Shields.
00:10Always a pleasure.
00:12I heard about you and Ted.
00:13Heard what exactly?
00:15Every seven years that it comes over him, he gets restless, does something juvenile.
00:20I'm not going home with you, Wendy.
00:22Oh.
00:22Instead of buying a motorcycle, daddy decided to give adultery a spin.
00:27Who is it?
00:27Darwan Singh Thor for your driving lesson, please.
00:31What happened?
00:32We're moving.
00:33That's good.
00:34It's about time you started driving.
00:36I used to have a husband who drove.
00:37Oh, Ted.
00:38Where do they find these skanks?
00:40They just like them young.
00:41You can mold them however they like.
00:44Teach them tricks.
00:47Teach yourself to see everything.
00:49The driver's biggest problem is everyone else.
00:51You can't always trust people to behave properly.
00:56Ain't that the truth?
00:58Wendy, what does a woman like for a gift?
01:00I don't know.
01:00Candy?
01:01Flowers?
01:02Dasleet.
01:03Darwan?
01:04She's from a village near where I grew up.
01:06My sister picked her out for me.
01:08Now that you're married, maybe a double date in Chinatown?
01:11Cheeky.
01:13Tell me where you want to drive.
01:14To go somewhere else.
01:16I'd like something to take my mind off my mind.
01:18That's why I do yoga.
01:19Meditate.
01:20I do Ambien.
01:21When a man marries a woman, they become one spirit.
01:25I don't know what I believed about marriage, except that it would always be there.
01:30Why do you teach driving?
01:31For a better job, I would have to take off my tub and shave off my beard.
01:35But this is how I know who I am.
01:39Why did I ever think I could drive?
01:41I ignore everything and everybody around me.
01:44I never learned to cook because I thought my mother would always be there to cook for me.
01:48Then there was half a world between us.
01:50So I make my own food.
01:53Your point?
01:55No point.
01:56I'm learning to drive.
01:58I think it's time to discuss road rage.
02:06It doesn't matter what is going on in your life out there.
02:10When you are at the wheel of a car, this is all there is.
02:14Your life, right now.

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