Comments | mint_green: A whole new opportunity for Travel Adventures

mint_green

A whole new opportunity for Travel Adventures

Apr 07, 2012 22:56

Well, now... I really should make an LJ post, shouldn't I? Basically, my life is three things at the moment, none of which are very LJ-worthy. It's either boring, kind of depressing, or fun-for-me-but-who-cares ( Read more... )

being an adult, travel adventures

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becky_black April 8 2012, 07:41:23 UTC

I won't even tell you how many times I failed my driving test before I finally got my licence. It's just embarrassing. :D Though: first exam: have to check the car for damage after the exam? Yeah, that's a fail. is one even I didn't manage! Oh and I do have a problem with left and right. I have to think about them harder than most people before I choose the correct one. So that's probably why!

So now you can drive, a whole new world of travel adventures awaits. :D

mint_green April 8 2012, 09:18:46 UTC

If I didn't have the option of the very-relaxed-extra-time anxiety exam, I would have had to do another two or three, I think.

Oh man, my first exam had some A-Team style driving in it. Within the first ten minutes of the exam I'd hit a traffic island with my front wheel in a turn.

I generally have to look at my hands (Your thumb makes an L on your left hand!), which you can't really do when hurtling down a road at 45 miles an hour. Gandalf's driving instructor friend just put little stickers on the sides of the rear view mirror, so students wouldn't have to freak out which way to go.

I hope not to have too many driving Travel Adventures, since Travel Adventures is usually code for 'something weird happened'.

becky_black April 8 2012, 13:35:39 UTC

I like this anxiety exam idea. It would definitely have helped me. :D

melonsplash April 9 2012, 11:46:45 UTC

To be honest I'm now intrigued by the idea of your housemate's cat who doesn't understand the concept of a snooze button, so don't assume that kind of stuff is boring. Plus, everything is interesting and fun, the way you write it ( ... )

mint_green April 9 2012, 15:27:37 UTC

My housemate was gone for the weekend. I don't let the cat in my bedroom when I sleep. He didn't give a peep until the second after my alarm clock beeped. And then he started meowwwwwing nonstop until I'd gotten up ( ... )

melonsplash April 9 2012, 15:51:17 UTC

So the cat meowed for you to get up even after you'd stopped the noise by pressing snooze? o.O

Ah, that exam sounds really considerate.

Heheh, I'm glad someone else thinks so, and can help me justify my not cycling here. Lance Armstrong is always encouraging people to bike everywhere, but I wouldn't listen to him - I suspect road rage at cyclists would be as bad in the US as in Australia. Maybe I'll move to Holland or Belgium or Denmark one day, to see if I really do like cycling everywhere like I do in my imagination.
Have you ever cycled in another country? How was it different?
I would like to think that if I could drive I would still public transport everywhere, like I do now (I live on the bus these days; not only do I spend hours every day on them, I've eaten [sneakily], slept, read, written essays, done my hair, put on makeup, made collages, etc on the bus. I think I would brush my teeth and get dressed on the bus if it were possible.) Like you said, it would just be useful to be able to drive.

mint_green April 9 2012, 17:05:48 UTC

I was planning on snoozing for another ten minutes, but the cat wasn't impressed and didn't shut up until I gave him attention.

I was going to buy a bike in Dublin and cycle to work, but once I noticed how crazy drivers were there and how the bike paths just... vanished halfway down a street, I decided not to and walk and take the bus.

Ha, that's pretty cool. I usually just read on the bus, and read or draw on the train. I once saw a girl use one of those eyelash curl things. I was so scared one bump would make her rip out her eyelashes!