Driving
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There are many reasons why I don’t drive, and why I shouldn’t drive.
When I was 17 and my dad bought me some driving lessons, I did okay, but didn’t get very far, and the entire thing was an anxiety inducing ordeal I don’t wish to repeat. I was so shy back then, and my anxiety was just off the scale, and while I’m more confident now, the panic is still pretty bad and I don’t see driving lessons as something I’ll be able to deal with. I suppose if I had carried on with the lessons, I might’ve gotten somewhere, but my dad didn’t realise I suppose that never in a month of Sundays could I actually afford to pay for driving lessons myself.
Another reason I don’t drive ifs because I don’t really have quick reaction times, and it takes me a moment to figure out which is left and which is right. During those lessons I have when I was 17, I wrote R and L on my hands so I wouldn’t have to think about it. And it took a little while to get to grips with the whole brake, accelerate, clutch thing. I was struggling with left and right, anything else was a bit much. There is a reason I never master driving games like Mario Kart, I never use the brake. I keep my thumb on the accelerate button and drive like hell around the track.
Can’t really do that in real life.
Other reasons why I shouldn’t drive include my seven year old nephew beating me at an arcade racer. And not in a I-let-him-beat-me way like at air hockey, but in a proper, I-crashed-a-lot-and-even-though-he-could-barely-reached-the-peddles-he-still-kicked-my-ass kinda way.
I also found myself unable to steer a pushchair. This may be cause I’m out of practise, it’s been years since my nephew was in a pushchair, and my niece is only 8 weeks old, so I still have time to get back into the habit. But I crashed that thing all over Matalan, though I don’t think I ran anyone over.
And so I am relegated to buses and walking.
Which I supposed is a good thing, cause I have no concentration, I worry that I would drift off while driving, I drift off when walking often enough, and I don’t think I ever drift on while I’m on the bus.
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There are many reasons why I don’t drive, and why I shouldn’t drive.
When I was 17 and my dad bought me some driving lessons, I did okay, but didn’t get very far, and the entire thing was an anxiety inducing ordeal I don’t wish to repeat. I was so shy back then, and my anxiety was just off the scale, and while I’m more confident now, the panic is still pretty bad and I don’t see driving lessons as something I’ll be able to deal with. I suppose if I had carried on with the lessons, I might’ve gotten somewhere, but my dad didn’t realise I suppose that never in a month of Sundays could I actually afford to pay for driving lessons myself.
Another reason I don’t drive ifs because I don’t really have quick reaction times, and it takes me a moment to figure out which is left and which is right. During those lessons I have when I was 17, I wrote R and L on my hands so I wouldn’t have to think about it. And it took a little while to get to grips with the whole brake, accelerate, clutch thing. I was struggling with left and right, anything else was a bit much. There is a reason I never master driving games like Mario Kart, I never use the brake. I keep my thumb on the accelerate button and drive like hell around the track.
Can’t really do that in real life.
Other reasons why I shouldn’t drive include my seven year old nephew beating me at an arcade racer. And not in a I-let-him-beat-me way like at air hockey, but in a proper, I-crashed-a-lot-and-even-though-he-could-barely-reached-the-peddles-he-still-kicked-my-ass kinda way.
I also found myself unable to steer a pushchair. This may be cause I’m out of practise, it’s been years since my nephew was in a pushchair, and my niece is only 8 weeks old, so I still have time to get back into the habit. But I crashed that thing all over Matalan, though I don’t think I ran anyone over.
And so I am relegated to buses and walking.
Which I supposed is a good thing, cause I have no concentration, I worry that I would drift off while driving, I drift off when walking often enough, and I don’t think I ever drift on while I’m on the bus.
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