Today was the day!

Both my daughter and our neighbor, her friend, are of legal driving age but not yet independent.  They are, were, both in the Chaperone stage where they can only drive with an adult over 25 years of age and heading for the Cinderella state where they can drive alone but not past 10 p.m..

So today was the day when Kaycee (Thelma) became Cinderella (yet still Thelma and Kaycee) was going to drive my daughter Taylor (Louise) about to be Cinderella (yet still Louise and Taylor) to school.  You can see the Thelma and Louise analogy!  Two beautiful young women on the highways free as a bird!  We were all hoping the analogy would end about half way into the moving before Brad Pitt came into the picture and things took a bad turn; so we were calling it the; Thelma and Louise Redux! 

Up til now Thelma, Louise, Kaycee and Taylor had been driven to school by Alex, the older brother of Kaycee, Thelma and Cinderella and surrogate brother of Taylor, Louise, the Cinderella wanna-be.  Today, Alex, a Senior, did not have to go to school until 11 a.m. so the girls were going to fly solo.

But alas, the collective parents watched the second half of the movie and decided each girl should do a solo voyage before doubling the pleasure, pain and anxiety of going togethor for their first time driving without an adult.

So, in this remake of a soon-to-be Gender-affirming classic we renamed this movie redux;  “Thelma and Louise…. Got Alex Out of Bed!”

Life comes at you fast!

Be safe, be happy– be yourself, or Thelma, Louise, Cinderella, Kaycee, Taylor, or even Alex… but be happy and be safe!

Note:  Redux means “Brought back, restored…”

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Lon Kieffer, author of “Get Out of Bed and Go to Work!”, Speaker, Consultant, Executive Recruiter and Expert on Workplace Culture Change and Generational Conflicts, gives seminars, keynote and plenary addresses, runs annual sales meetings, and provides Common Sense Consulting at:  www.LonKieffer.com. He can be reached at:  (302) 462-6748 or via email at:  Lon@LonKieffer.com