earlier that day , when we went out to my car ( which had not disappeared but had enough pop cans , chip and candy wrappers in it to water and feed an army - taking them all in , and thinking of all the takeout cartons i tossed out the day before , i was thinking the other cora was no longer skinnier than me ) , tor flatly refused to sit in the passenger seat , demanded a lesson and refused to believe that he 'd need more than one lesson and practice ( much less an actual license ) to drive around in a city .