Driving lesson the fourth.
A dramatic start, as someone fell and needed medical attention on the side of the road, but luckily my instructor knows first aid!
Spent all morning sick with nerves but it went ok really. Even got up to 50mph on a Big Scary Road!*
Next week he wants me properly on the dual carriageway though, idk about that 😬
* for like three seconds, while making a high pitched "eeeee" noise the whole time
@fak He's seen how massively anxious I am so I guess he must have some faith in me or pushing it too soon would probably just make that worse.
I do have one fairly consistent problem holding me back though so hoping to practise it a bit in our car this week and go into the next lesson more confident 🤞
@thegiddystitcher @fak I've mentioned my lovely instructor, Bob, before. But after I passed my test he gave me an extra lesson which involved driving down the M3, into the centre of London, and home again.
I'm still not sure I'm quite recovered from that experience. But it did me the world of good in terms of driving confidence.
@HelenLockhart @fak At least you had the dual controls, I suppose!
We tried to do a bit of private practise in Dave's car last night, after it was already getting dark. It was absolutely terrifying and definitely a bad choice 😱
But I think it had a similar effect in that nothing in today's actual daylight lesson was anywhere close to that scary 😅
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