Saturday, September 7, 2013

Licenced to drive...

I am 21 years old and I got my driver's licence yesterday.
I guess three times is a charm because that was my third test.
The first test,
the instructor was extremely intimidating,
she got into the car and couldn't even fit so she had to push the seat as far back as it would go.
Then she gave me the worst instructions ever.
The second time I was determined to have fun regardless of whether I failed.
So I talked to the instructor the entire time.
She was really sweet.
But I ran up on the curb during parallel parking and was disqualified.
I was originally going to take my test at a DMV in my hometown,
but a wrong turn took us to a podunk DMV in the middle of nowhere.
I thought it was going to be much easier so I decided to test my luck and take the test there.
It was so much harder,
the course was longer and included random things I didn't have to do during the other tests I had taken before.
The instructor was not so friendly.
She wore sunglasses read off a sheet and did not smile.
She was not one for small talk or talk in general.
Any question I would ask she would respond with "What would you do".
It was altogether miserable.
At the end she spent 15 minutes telling me all of my mistakes.
And her only compliment was that I had a perfect 3-point turn.
Then she told me I passed.
Up until then I was clueless as to whether I had actually passed or failed.