Settling into a beanbag chair after the firecracker battle, he asked me gently whether driving through crime-ridden Johannesburg had been scary and offered me a cup of tea.
The Volt, which shares its basic structure with the Chevy Cruze, can readily achieve the top end of G.M.'s estimate for all-electric range: driving gently, I managed 50 miles on a full charge.
It's a smooth ride too, with fast flowing lyrical pictures and musical compositions that travel from gently romantic to driving and rowdy without ever getting lost along the way.
Before you know it, you'll soon find yourself tired and gently hung over, driving your also-single friends home, moving slowly away from a celebration you a successful part of, and having no idea how it all happened so fast.
Try driving gently, or else you could get stuck.
If you're following the previous two steps, you're going to be driving gently all the way anyway, so you may as well use that for your engine's warmup.
John Cleese is gently derided throughout for driving about in posh cars and being lordly.
"We're lean and mean," he said with a quiet sigh, driving along the gently curving paths that are no longer part of his hospital's property.
