Driving Like Crazy

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802199836
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
The #1 New York Times–bestselling humorist’s tribute to car travel is “a ride worth taking, even for readers who don’t know an oil pan from a frying pan” (The Washington Times). From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the golden age of the automobile in America—and takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan, to a thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 in 1983, to a journey through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of O’Rourke’s classic pieces on driving, including “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink,” about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; “The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club,” which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that O’Rourke took on a Harley-Davidson; his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its peculiar culture recorded during an alcohol-fueled weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account of a ride from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover’s new Discovery Trek. “Never in neutral, O’Rourke offers laughter on wheels.” —Publishers Weekly “An insightful look not just at the American love affair with cars, but also at one man’s changing outlook on life, all of it fast-paced and over the top . . . Even readers who know nothing about cars and motorcycles will appreciate the joy and hilarity of this book.” —Booklist

Driving Her Crazy

Author: Kira Archer
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck
ISBN: 163375376X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Cher Debusshere hates being the black sheep of her posh, well-to-do family almost as much as she hates driving which is exactly what she's forced to do when her flight home for her perfect sister's wedding is grounded. Fan-freakin'-tastic. Then a hot guy offers to share both the car rental and the driving duties...only to drive her crazy by assuming she's just some spoiled little rich girl. Mechanic Nathaniel "Oz" Oserkowski is about as blue-collar as they come. There's never been a time he hasn't worked his ass off, and he's determined to prove it to the gorgeous princess in the passenger seat. As the miles pass, they bait and needle each other...until their lust and longing gets so hot it nearly overheats the engine. They have nothing in common. Hell, they can barely stand each other. But sometimes it takes a journey to change the destination... Each book in the Crazy Love series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Driving Her Crazy Book #2 Kissing Her Crazy Book #3 Loving Her Crazy

People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys

Author: Dr. Mike Bechtle
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441239626
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Strange as it may seem, other people are not nearly as committed to our happiness as we are. In fact, sometimes they seem like they're on a mission to make us miserable! There's always that one person. The one who hijacks your emotions and makes you crazy. The one who seems to thrive on drama. If you could just "fix" that person, everything would be better. But we can't fix other people--we can only make choices about ourselves. In this cut-to-the-chase book, communication expert Mike Bechtle shows readers that they don't have to be victims of other people's craziness. With commonsense wisdom and practical advice that can be implemented immediately, Bechtle gives readers a proven strategy to handle crazy people. More than just offering a set of techniques, Bechtle offers a new perspective that will change readers' lives as they deal with those difficult people who just won't go away.

Driving Her Crazy

Author: Amy Andrews
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373207093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Journalist Sadie Bliss is on a mission to prove herself as a world-class reporter. But three things stand in her way… 1. Dangerously mouthwatering photographer Kent Nelson—he's far too brooding and arrogant. 2. A road trip across the Outback with the above distraction—did she mention she doesn't do sleeping under the stars? 3. An insatiable longing to throw her rule book out of the car window… Because what happens in the Outback stays in the Outback. Right?

Driving Like Crazy

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848870802
Category : Automobile driving
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you're half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're going a hundred miles an hour down a suburban side street . . .Driving Like Crazy chronicles 30 years of P.J. O'Rourke's love affair with the automobile. Liberally laced with razor sharp wit and candid humour, O'Rourke gets behind the wheel to take us on a hell-bending tour of some of the worlds most scenic - and most treacherous - roads.With advice on everything from 'How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink', to such topics as 'Spilling Your Drink Is No Problem If You Keep the Sippy Cups from When Your Kids Were Toddlers' and 'Leave the Baby Seat in the Back Seat so that When You Get Pulled Over You Look Like a Perfectly Innocent Grandparent', this hilarious collection of O'Rourke's classic journalism also includes previously unpublished pieces.Driving Like Crazy is O'Rourke at his Gonzo best: it is an inimitably humorous and pleasurable celebration of cars, speed, and the open road. Fasten your seatbelts; you're in for a bumpy ride . . .

Ma, You're Driving Me Crazy!

Author: Toni Goffe
Publisher: Childs Play International Limited
ISBN: 9780859534017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A child explains ways his mother drives him crazy--by telling him to go to bed, or to hurry up, or some such direction counter to his own wishes.

This School is Driving Me Crazy

Author: Nat Hentoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440085492
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Sam, who has a magnetic attraction for trouble, finds it increasingly difficult to attend the school where his father is headmaster.

Driving Crazy

Author: Randy Pearson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725563261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Jay Naylor thought winning the Crazy Climber auction would be the hard part. Man, was he ever wrong!With his best friend Austin Ridenour by his side, Jay takes to the streets in this wild, hilarious adventure. During their journey from Lansing, Michigan to Weedpatch, California and beyond, they'll run headlong into adversity, desperation and their fair share of lunatics. They'll need every ounce of their luck and ingenuity if they hope to get this classic arcade game, and themselves, home in one piece.Our heroes would rather spend their time seeing the sights, but they can't. They're too busy... Driving Crazy.

Driving Miss Crazy

Author: D.J. Van Oss
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
She wants to go places. He's got the car. If only things were that simple. Widowed father Adrian Adams isn't looking to change his life. He just wants to keep his seven-year-old daughter Charlie safe and happy. The last thing he expects is to suddenly lose his job as a driver for the Washington DC diplomatic community. Luckily, he's offered a new embassy driving assignment, one that starts with a tea cup-and-tie collision with a clumsy, cute, and oddly charming Irish woman with a penchant for talking to squirrels. Maggie MacNally always seems to fall short, especially when it comes to her family's expectations. She's bracing again for disappointment as she tries to forge a new life in DC. Then an out-of-the-blue summons from her influential grandmother offers her one last chance at success-a chance that puts her in Adrian's back seat and on the road to a career in the family business of international diplomacy. Is Maggie finally headed where she wants to go, or is her big opportunity just another wrong turn? Is Adrian ready to take a second chance at love, or is he determined to put on the brakes before Maggie drives him crazy? And what's with all the squirrels?

You're Driving Me Crazy

Author: Roy E. Ault
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503284753
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Bob Newhart only wrote about it, Roy experienced it - the madcap world of teaching people to drive. How would you like to teach your mother-in-law? Roy did it. What would you do with a Korean lady who knew no English or for that matter, a Ukranian? Read about a French lady who was in the French resistance during WWII. And the student who slammed on her brakes to avoid going through the yellow light, but the driver of an 18 wheeler directly behind her was hell bent on going through it. How about teaching 13 girls - all from the same family. Then there was the New Yorker who drove a hook and ladder down the sidewalks of 65th street, but could not drive a car on the highway. This and much, much more awaits you. Roy's experiences range from pathetic, to humorous, to sad, to outrageous, to funny, to questionable and to outright side-splitting. Roy learned to drive on the farm at age seven. He drove the pickup while his brother, father and grandfather tried to lay barbed wire. Lots of blood. At age eight they had him on a tractor at hay bailing time. Instead of hitting the brake he hit the clutch - read about the aftermath. After farming, Roy's father went into the trucking business. Against his will Roy became a mechanic. At age 15 his exact words were, "I'll never make a living with anything that has four wheels." Today he has over 30 four wheelers that ply the highways teaching thousands of people annually to drive. Those thousands have accounted for the stories in this book. For instance: Mabel ,who was blinded when she took her road test when her wig slid down over her eyes and Lettie who at 80 was slightly over four feet and eighty pounds but had been an Olympic javelin champion, or Millie who had survived the bombing of Coventry by the Germans during WWII. Then there was Mrs. So and So who on the side was dating the same man her daughter was - while Roy was teaching them both. All yours for less than a ticket to the movies with popcorn and a drink. Note: Coming from a non-PC time, this book carries no guarantees of Political Correctness.