# The day that Queen Elizabeth taught a lesson **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805 "2015-01-24T03:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/1 "2015-01-24T03:55:55Z")
…to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia: > **[That time badass feminist Queen Elizabeth gave Saudi Arabia's king a lesson...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/feminist-boss-lady-queen-elizabeth-gave-saudi-arabias-king-lesson-power/)** > > It involves the royal Land Rover. I love it! ---
**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/2 "2015-01-24T04:02:07Z")
Thanks for the reminder. The car has long been a great equalizer between men and women. That’s why male dominated societies like the king’s ( with a needed small k) don’t want women to drive ( and be educated). They just might want the freedom the car represents to everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/3 "2015-01-24T05:50:40Z")
She is a feisty one for sure. I had read a story a few years back that she got tired of waiting for her driver to take her somewhere else on the Castle property, that she just slid into the drivers seat and left him/her behind. Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/4 "2015-01-24T06:53:17Z")
This was a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/5 "2015-01-24T09:12:53Z")
Read a news story back sometime in the 1970s that she and Prince Phillip were driving somewhere near Sandringham when they encountered an American tourist couple pulled over with car trouble. Queen and hubby stopped and to the amazement of the tourist couple the Queen spent a few minutes finding and fixing the problem with easy expertise. During the war she often was driving trucks through London during Luftwaffe bombing raids. The lady earned her military stripes with real service. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/6 "2015-01-24T18:02:40Z")
Absolutely, Marnet! And, in addition to driving transport trucks during WW II, she was trained as a mechanic. [![](http://media3.onsugar.com/files/2013/04/19/936/n/3019466/a16615c57026672d_20100726PHOWWW00084.xxxlarge/i/She-Worked-Mechanic-During-World-War-II.jpg) ](http://media3.onsugar.com/files/2013/04/19/936/n/3019466/a16615c57026672d_20100726PHOWWW00084.xxxlarge/i/She-Worked-Mechanic-During-World-War-II.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/7 "2015-01-24T20:38:29Z")
My mother was in the US Navy during WWII. She took a mechanical aptitude test as part of her battery of entry tests, and they wanted to make her a trainer of airplane mechanics. She already had a usable skill (X-Ray technician) and was offended that they wanted her to do anything else, even 3 decades later. Everyone has their own set of personal expectations, and I mean no offense to QE II. This story just reminded me of my mom’s experience. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/8 "2015-01-24T21:08:24Z")
**^** There is a legend–very possibly untrue–that during the same week in WW II, a chef from The Waldorf-Astoria hotel and an experienced trucker were drafted and were assigned to the same base. After basic training, the chef received training to be a truck driver, and the trucker was trained to be an army cook. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/9 "2015-01-24T22:37:22Z")
Isn’t that what they use the term “FUBAR” for!!! Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/10 "2015-01-24T22:53:19Z")
Maybe NPR and BBC could create a new CarTalk show with Jay Leno and Queen Elizabeth as co-hosts. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/11 "2015-01-24T22:58:36Z")
That’s actually not a bad idea, Triedaq! She is fairly poised when she is on camera. as evidenced by her recent Christmas message for 2014. Although she was obviously reading from a teleprompter, she prides herself on writing her own speeches. ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/12 "2015-01-24T23:06:14Z")
This lady has greeted every US president since Eisenhower. Their first official joint function was to officially open the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/13 "2015-01-25T00:06:31Z")
FUBAR is also part of the nickname for a Cleveland Browns quarterback: Johnny FUBAR. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/14 "2015-01-25T02:09:12Z")
VDCdriver The “legend” of the WW2 chef and trucker is definitely plausible. Although I’m certain the Army’s decision was purely accidental it was actually brilliant. The trucker would likely accept his fate and make the best of it. The chef when forced to conform to Army cooking regulations would have been driven completely insane. It reminds me of the scene with the chef in Apocalypse Now. He is describing Navy cooking school where he is given a high quality beef roast and instructed to boil it. He is explaining why he volunteered for extremely dangerous “Brown Water Navy” duty. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-day-that-queen-elizabeth-taught-a-lesson/88805/15 "2015-01-25T02:27:23Z")
Yosemite An excellent film (The Queen} has a scene where she hops in her Land Rover and goes for a solo drive. I read somewhere that this was not a rare occasion and drove her security people insane.