Still no further. Driving around here is terrifying. No one seems to have any patience and whoever designed the road layout here wasn’t particularly clever. Add that to the fact I live ridiculously close to good public transport I have never really felt the need to have a car or drive. I cant carry on like this, so to remind myself why I need to learn:
I might NEED to one day – Armageddon (don’t know why I think driving would help), an urgent trip to a hospital, it could be essential for a dream job.
Freedom – I can be at the mercy of of public transport or my friends at the moment.
Visiting family – My parents moved to deepest darkest Wales (the road signs have English as an after thought) it takes three trains to get a half an hour drive away from their house, the journey takes four hours. I could do it in three if I drove.
I cant enter “win a really fancy car” competitions (there is no point)
More leisure options – picnics in the countryside, trips to rural castles, the zoo, go ape, out of town shopping centres.
It apparently gets harder to learn the older you are.
Isn’t using a provisional license as ID a bit embarrassing when you are over twenty three? (although I get asked fro ID less frequently now)
The songs little red corvette by Prince – “Move over baby, Gimme the keys, I’m gonna try to tame your little red love machine” Oh and Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin “Oh lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends” – (Sorry I couldn’t help it)
