Nnnrgh
Why Melanie hates (still) learning to drive:
♠She is supposed to be in control of the car. This is apparently news to the car.
♠Stalling happens to everyone who drives a clutch, at least for a while in the beginning, and it's no big deal. Still, it feels a little more like failure every time it happens.
♠Most of the roads in the area get relatively little traffic during the weekday. They are also mainly curvy as heck, gravel, narrower than they should be, sprinkled liberally with hills, and/or not marked in any way down the center.
♠Ninety percent of the experienced drivers on the road are entirely able to take in the fact that the car they are passing/following/seeing is not as experienced as they are and can make accommodations for said vehicle. Somehow, 30% instead seem to be complete asshats who should have their own licenses revoked before their impatience gets someone killed.
...*sigh* So, anyway. At least it seems I'm not actually prepared to take the fact that being in the driver's seat scares the hell out of me as an excuse to just plain stop learning. Although it does seem to be taking me an awfully long time to learn.... ^.^; Better slow and prepared than speedy and stupid. (ETA: Translated more comprehensibly that would be, "It's better to learn slowly and well than quickly and poorly." ^.^; )
♠She is supposed to be in control of the car. This is apparently news to the car.
♠Stalling happens to everyone who drives a clutch, at least for a while in the beginning, and it's no big deal. Still, it feels a little more like failure every time it happens.
♠Most of the roads in the area get relatively little traffic during the weekday. They are also mainly curvy as heck, gravel, narrower than they should be, sprinkled liberally with hills, and/or not marked in any way down the center.
♠Ninety percent of the experienced drivers on the road are entirely able to take in the fact that the car they are passing/following/seeing is not as experienced as they are and can make accommodations for said vehicle. Somehow, 30% instead seem to be complete asshats who should have their own licenses revoked before their impatience gets someone killed.
...*sigh* So, anyway. At least it seems I'm not actually prepared to take the fact that being in the driver's seat scares the hell out of me as an excuse to just plain stop learning. Although it does seem to be taking me an awfully long time to learn.... ^.^; Better slow and prepared than speedy and stupid. (ETA: Translated more comprehensibly that would be, "It's better to learn slowly and well than quickly and poorly." ^.^; )