Learning to Drive

I drove on the road for the first time in my life this weekend.

Friday evening was spent driving around the parking lot.

And then, with no warning, the boy decided it was time to take me to the road.

Now, I normally say 'surprise good'. But I gots to tell you, finding out that your teacher feels like you can manipulate a very large mass around streets with squishy people is kinda frightening. Terrifying even. Especially when you there is no warning and *whamp* you are driving on streets with people in cars, people crossing the street and small children.

Small children who clearly don't know you are a new driver and think it's fun to roller skate where you should be driving.

I would make a comment about how the kids how no sense of danger, but then, I had no real sense of danger when I was a kid.

Dark closet was to be avoided at all costs on pain of bogeyman - 4 inch concrete strip between two very deep pools was to be crossed at high speeds despite a lack of any knowledge of how to swim.

So, I haven't hit anything, and I seem to be doing better on the actual street than in the parking lot, and I can drive at speeds up to 30 miles an hour (though it scares me and I much rather be at the nice safe, fast for me speed of 20 miles per hour.

Still not on big streets with lights yet, just small residential streets.

But watch out world, here I come!