During my seven years as a Driver Ed instructor, I experienced many strange things. My car was often used for target practice with snowballs, dirt clods, balls. The strangest by far was when a submarine sandwich bounced off the hood of the car during a driving lesson. Luckily no one was injured.

Once, on a parking lesson near the hospital, we picked up an uninvited passenger when we failed to lock the back door. It was a bitter cold afternoon and a small, elderly lady, wearing nothing but a hospital johnny, jumped into the back seat and asked us to take her home. I think she mistook our roof sign for a taxi light. I made sure the doors were always locked after that.