Driving Lessons!

Well, thought i would do a post on something nearly everyone attempts at some point in their lives, learning to drive. Now don't get me wrong i LOVE driving, but i HATE learning, with an absolute passion.

If only i could drive without learning how to, ha that would be dangerous, because if i am blatantly honest i am not the best driver in the world, now sure no learner is amazing but after 14 lessons and countless lessons with my father, you would expect some skill. However!!!! i panic when driving, well panic can be an understatement, i broke down and cried when i was driving by a dustbin truck, fair enough if i was down small street then you can understand the panic for a learner especially, but when your down a very wide road with no parked cars or obstacles to get by, why the fear came over me i do not know...

Another example of my terrible driving is old women having to run across the road, i won't take offence, because if they didn't run i would not have a chance in hell of anyone teaching me to drive again. I have seriously never seen an old woman leap so quickly.
Now i am fine driving if my instructor lets me get on with it, i seem to relax and be able to drive perfectly, but when she pipes up 'you need to change gear,indicate,speed up, slow down, and about 5 other commands that get muddled in my small mind!!! I get panicky and do it wrong! That's when all you pedestrians need to keep a close eye on the horizon for Jess the psycho learner.

Learners Hell:

• Taxi Drivers
• Bus Drivers
• People on push bikes
• Boy racers
• Little Kids
• Other learners
• Lorry Drivers
• White Van Drivers
• Coppers!

The list above, all you current learners will understand the panic these can cause, the ones that like to scare a learner, or the ones that think they own the road, and obviously the ones you gotta be really careful about.
I have nearly had 4 accidents due to taxi drivers, been pigs of the road, and surprisingly enough it was never my fault, and between you and me perfected my emergency stop to the tee ;-p.  Bus drivers they just hog more then enough of the road and give you an evil glare as you approach each other like they are saying 'you know i can crush you' it really is some scary shit out there!!!

I wish people would go back to when they was a learner, and look try and remember how they felt when they was on the busy roads or in sticky situations, and how they felt when other drivers treat them like dirt and scared them. Wish they had some patience with us, we are trying, i still get a sicky, butterfly feeling before my lessons.

Only lessons i don't get nervous about is when i have to spend the lesson doing techniques like turning in the road, and reverse round a corner, and parallel parking, now some of you will be thinking what a weirdo but, when i am better at techniques then actually driving round loads, you learn your comfort zone. And i adore parallel parking, not even lying, it is amazing and my instructors words for my parallel parking is and i quote 'beautiful' and 'that was perfect'...... far better then 'what did you do wrong there?' and ' you know your not meant to do that' or ' why don't we start again'.

All you learners out there....just think about something funny when you panic it will relax you, when you do something wrong think well i ain't the 1st and i won't be the last, and when a taxi driver pisses you off for nearly killing you and several others just think, i can get that taxi next time and be sick in his car and run without paying (hint: don't do this if he is taking you home)
All you drivers out there, have a flash back to your learner days, and take it easy on us, we are you in a previous time.