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I passed my drivers test!!!!
Yea sorry but I just had to get that one out. Im so happy and relieved. ::pats self on back:: Its great. I was so nervous before-hand, waiting for the kid in front of me to come back...i was literally pacing...never knew i was a pacer but yea evidently...when Im wicked nervous...I pace(?).
When the time finally came for my turn, I got into the car, did the whole seatbelt, adjust mirrors and seat thing and then I started driving, loving how all my nervousness like went away (thank God). I'm proud to say I made it through the whole test without doing one thing wrong. ::beams at self:: The only thing the guy said to me was "Wow it got hot out...::opens window::". I took that as an invitation to talk and started commenting on the weather and how we had a fire drill. Then it hit me like wat the hell are you doing? Who makes small talk during their drivers test? Yea...noone...and upon comming to that conclusion I shut up and just drove.
Then about halfway through the test, the guy's phone rings and he picks it up and starts talking as we're pulling out of the foodmart plaza. As I drive down the road to Farmington ave, make a smooth right on red, and head back to the school, I am semi-amazed to find that he is still on the ruddy phone. Now I'm starting to wonder if he's even paying attention to me, and when he instructs me to turn into a side street and do a K-turn, during a breif break during his converstaion, I become even more amazed as he goes on talking. I do as he says, thinking to myself "sor-ry buddy for interupting your little chat that I'm sure is really important and all, my fault for being such a both to you and all." Right before I start the K-turn he finally hangs up and goes "Ok, Im sure you can do a K-turn well enough, lets see you do it and then head back." Evidently the guy had plenty of confidence in me, and after a quick volte-face(vocab in action chyeaa) we returned back to the school. I realized that worked out well because although I wanted to point out some of the finer points in my driving (since he seemed to not notice. a fact I gathered from the lack of comments and abundance of talking on the phone) I just did a mind-shrug (if that makes sense) and was like "works for me". I think it actually helped cause it felt like it was Mr Read lmao on the phone next to me, and that the guy wasnt even paying attention so I wasn't nervous at all. There was one point when I had to go around a mailtruck and during the 2 seconds it took for me to pass I prayed the mailman wouldn't somehow fall into the road or something like that. I actually have no idea where the hell he was, never saw him at all, important thing was that I made it without hitting anything/one. The whole experience was weird too because during it I was sitting there thinking of how this was one of the highlights of my short 16 year old life and how this was probably the one test I really cared about passing this year. It's weird to think about how after all that waiting and knowing it would someday come, my license test has finally come and gone, and I am now a licensed driver. ::smiles at nice ring that has to it...licensed driver..never will get sick of that one::