Driving Update

I have had about 5 lessons now so I thought I would share some of the interesting or funny things that might have happened along the way:

• Today, I was driving along and then a bus started coming towards me and I was thinking 'oh crap, I won't fit through that gap what the hell do I do!!' I was a little temped to just close my eyes and hope for the best but luckily I didn't! I pulled over a little bit to the left as my instructor told me and he helped me to stop it in time... phew. 

• Another one from today. I am learning to drive in a petrol car and we had pulled over to have a chat about something else and clean the back windscreen. Anyway, when I went to pull away I thought I had put it in 1st gear so I started to pull away, I was wondering why the car was shaking so much but I carried on very slowly anyway and once I had actually got on my way again I asked my instructor why the car was shaking so much and he said I had accidentally put the car in 3rd gear but he was amazed that I actually managed to get away with doing that in 3rd gear because usually the car would have stalled. 

•  I drove myself to school the other day which was quite good! My leg ached a teeny bit after as usual and as it was in the morning I was a little bit tired but the lesson went well, although I stalled quite a few times as we were doing LOTS of roundabouts for the first time, and they are a little bit scary!

•  I have to admit whenever I see a car stop at a junction to either side of me it does give me a bit of a shock and buses scare me too! They are too big and take up too much of the road!

• I have had a little habit of leaving my indicator on when it doesn't cancel it's self out. I quite like the noise actually and I just sort of block it out :) But I am glad the say that I am improving on this as I now remember to turn it off more often that not! 

• You might know that I am the official cake makes for my friends' birthdays. In a few weeks time it is my friend Amy's birthday and I have already promised her a cake! I have got a driving lesson in the morning before I actually need to be in school so I will be driving myself, and the cake, to school! I said to my friend that she can judge how good my driving is by the state of the cake... hopefully we won't start on emergency stops on that lesson!