“No, Mr. Wishard…” By Henry Regehr
Bob Newhart immeasurably raised the public image of driving instructors when he unveiled his famous monologue about those brave souls who “face death in a thousand ways and never know if they will return home at night”. In 1955 I started my summer job, driving the famous white Joe Vine Diving School cars with their dual controls around Winnipeg, and Bob Newhart understood. “No, Mr. Wishard, you can’t make a left turn on this street”. I spoke quietly but tensely, holding my side of the dual steering wheel. “That is a one-way street”. “But the cop just made the turn”, he shouted back, still putting all his energy into trying…
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