Poop poop! Poop poop!
Today was my catch up driving lesson.
I have only had 3 in total (this time around) before today but unfortunately I have just had a three week gap between lessons and boy could I tell. Cunningly I also have a lesson booked for tomorrow for 1 hour so now I have caught up with being rusty I should be able to power into tomorrow's lesson and make good headway on hill starts. Rarrrr!
However being away for three weeks and being so rusty I was able to keenly see what some of my big problems are - not being rusty problems - bigger problems than those:
1. I am scared of other cars, if I see one moving I will probably break (occasionally hard).
2. I feverishly check my mirrors all the time and (this is the bit which is bad) frequently check over my right hand shoulder. (Couldn't work out why I was doing this, until I realised I was checking that no-one was overtaking me - this is because I spend almost 1/2 my travelling time on a bike.)
3. Up until recently every time I changed gear the car increased in speed. I don't like increases in speed. However today I experienced the car decreasing in speed when I changed gear. Therefore I am no longer so frightened of changing gear because it can be used for good as well as evil.
4. I don't like using the accelerator any more than is absolutely necessary (i.e. more than the 20 mph). In fact my driving instractor has taken to putting his foot on the accelerator and not letting me bring it up until I "give it more gas!" Sneaky man.
So...
Most of these I expect will sort themselves out on further lessons and generally progressing with regular lessons so I don't forget too much. And willpower should kick the looking over the shoulder thing.
I have only had 3 in total (this time around) before today but unfortunately I have just had a three week gap between lessons and boy could I tell. Cunningly I also have a lesson booked for tomorrow for 1 hour so now I have caught up with being rusty I should be able to power into tomorrow's lesson and make good headway on hill starts. Rarrrr!
However being away for three weeks and being so rusty I was able to keenly see what some of my big problems are - not being rusty problems - bigger problems than those:
1. I am scared of other cars, if I see one moving I will probably break (occasionally hard).
2. I feverishly check my mirrors all the time and (this is the bit which is bad) frequently check over my right hand shoulder. (Couldn't work out why I was doing this, until I realised I was checking that no-one was overtaking me - this is because I spend almost 1/2 my travelling time on a bike.)
3. Up until recently every time I changed gear the car increased in speed. I don't like increases in speed. However today I experienced the car decreasing in speed when I changed gear. Therefore I am no longer so frightened of changing gear because it can be used for good as well as evil.
4. I don't like using the accelerator any more than is absolutely necessary (i.e. more than the 20 mph). In fact my driving instractor has taken to putting his foot on the accelerator and not letting me bring it up until I "give it more gas!" Sneaky man.
So...
Most of these I expect will sort themselves out on further lessons and generally progressing with regular lessons so I don't forget too much. And willpower should kick the looking over the shoulder thing.