STOP!

Well hello there :)

This is another one of my driving blogs as I just got back from my lesson and thought that I would share, just to be nice :) 

We had a quick drive on the dual carriage way on the way to where we would be doing the cross roads, one way road and angled turnings. This time I felt a bit more confident on the road as I it was nice and light (on the way) and also I was surprisingly not bothered about going 70mph, so I felt quite a lot more confident this time as I really did not like them the last time I drove on them! 

We did all the crossroads, one way roads and angled turnings and then we drove to a quiet road where my instructor told me about emergency stops and I admit, I was a bit scared. But anyway, he talked me through how to do and the signal that they give to tell you to stop. He told me that when he was learning to drive the instructor used to literally bang their clip boards on the dashboard! I think that would just make me jump, so I'm glad they have changed that now! They now look around, put there hand up and then when they want us to stop they put they hand forward quickly and say 'STOP!' - much better. 

We switched places in the car so he was driving so he could could give me an example of what to do. He got to 20mph on the road and then did the emergency stop. It was obviously quite abrupt but it just kind of made me giggle, which is obviously better than being scared. He then gave me a second example just to see if I noticed a difference from last time as he had deliberately done it so that the ABS would kick in too so it didn't feel so smooth. I was quite pleased because I realised, yay!

Then it was my turn... dun dun daaaa! First we just sat in the car with it in neutral and with the hand break on and then he did the hand thing and said 'STOP' and... I missed the brake pedal a bit hahaha! Glad it was the test run. The second time I got it though, yay! 

Then it was time for the real thing so I started the car and got it to 20mph, he did the hand thing etc and I stopped the car. It was ok but the stop was not quite quick enough so we did it again and it was much better but we sort of stopped and then I tool one hand of the wheel and said 'was that ok? oh crap I have to put the hand brake and that on' just as he was pointing at the handbrake! It was rather funny, I can be so blonde sometimes. It literally just slipped my mind! 

Then I drove back home on the dual carriage way, missing my turning on the round about without even realising, but we got there in the end. Well, I've got to make something funny out of driving, right? 

Hopefully we won't be doing the emergency stop in 2 weeks time on the Tuesday as I will have a cake for my friends Amy's birthday and I wouldn't be too happy if I were to mess up the cake and have to give it to her if it were spattered and smushed to the side of the tin it is in! Hopefully that won't happen but, Amy, I apologise in advance in case that does happen :)

Bye for now :)