Not many people feel an affinity with turtles, but during my professional career that’s exactly how I’ve felt.
As a journalist I have lived in the most rural areas of Australia, high in the hills of Northern New South Wales, under the bright lights of the Gold Coast, along the river in Brisbane and now within the dense urban jungle of Sydney.
During this time, my car was always my one constant, and yet I never showed it the respect it deserved or learned how to take care of it. But it was this particular mindset that led me into a little story I like to casually call “The Worst Night Of My Life”.
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When I first got my licence I remember being so annoyed with my dad - he made me spend the morning with him in our driveway learning to change the tyres, check/refill the oil and water, and check the tyre pressures on my little car. Nearly 30 years on, and I have many times been grateful for those skills, and they are part of what we are teaching our kids as we teach them to drive.