Women Should Neither Vote nor Drive

My grandmother was a firm believer that women should not be allowed to vote or drive.  When she passed away at the age of 81, she had never voted once in any election: federal, state, local, or even in her church.  She would often make note of the fact that she believed only men should be allowed to vote; they were the only ones who had the knowledge and fortitude to be able to make such important decisions.  She also believed that only those of the opposite sex had the skills, abilities and knowledge necessary to operate a motorized vehicle.  In her lifetime, she only drove a car one time, and that is the focus of our story.  

My grandmother, her parents, and their other innumerable progeny running around all lived together in a tiny shack at the bottom of a hill.  At the top of this hill sat another somewhat larger and nicer shack; but a hovel nonetheless.  Whether or not this home included any other children or not is not within the scope of my knowledge, being that all this took place a half century before I made my presence known on this old earth.

My grandmother only went through the third grade, and it is doubtful any of the other members of the fairer sex went much further than that.  Girls were only sent to school long enough to get the basic instructions in reading, writing and the basic math skills they might need in their future occupations as wife and mother.  After that they would spend their time learning the more important skills they would need in their future jobs: cooking, cleaning and taking care of children.  Thus, without the need to spend the next few years learning tasks in school that she would never have a need for (and as one of the younger offspring there was very little need to spend time watching after her younger fellow broodlings), my grandmother had some time to kill in her childhood.  This usually meant getting into mischief in one way or another.