learn how to drive a car

umm.. yeahhh

i got my learner’s permit !!!

I got my learners license last year,I haven’t written in my entry for awhile.I am now trying to get my drivers license.I have done it twice but did not get,I haven’t given up.I have appointment for my third appointment.My second test I did something stupid and I automatically failed I don’t plan to do that mistake again,so I am trying to get it again.I am more confident than I was the last time.

I grew up in new york city riding the subway to and from everywhere. At the age when most people are getting their licenses I was falling asleep drunk on the F train and missing my stop, only to wake up, hungover, in coney island.
Driving always seemed suburban, pointless and expensive to me. Thats not to say it didnt hold a certian charm however; the few freinds i had that could drive were exotic and in high demand. Riding around was an adventure, not to mention the quickest way to get to the cloisters from brooklyn.
College came and i moved to vermont and suddenly i felt like a 15 year old begging my parents for rides into town.
except instead of parents it was my boyfreind (first guy i ever dated who had a car) and my freinds. At school everyone thought it was cute that i couldn’t drive, a strange citygirl distinction- like wearing fishnets or liking sushi.
at 23 however, this has gone from a novel charecterisic to a complete inconvenience.
but i’m moving to Boston and everyone there drives like a maniac on PCP so i dont know when i’ll get a chance to learn.

i went to the dmv the other day on 34th and 6th, up the street from the manhattan mall. someone told me that it would be easier to get things done there instead of at the one uptown on 125th street. it sounded like a great idea—i didn’t even know that there was a dmv there. i went there in the early afternoon. what a zoo. all of humanity was there in its unwashed glory, in lines that looped back on themselves endlessly and somehow never moved. they snaked their way throughout the room, creating a kind of orderly confusion that was absurd. of course, i didn’t stay. but i did figure out what i had to do to get a learner’s permit and what forms of ID i had to bring with me upon my return. (my utility bill? you betcha!)

i didn’t think that i’d have to exert this much effort to do something this simple but i don’t care what it takes. i’ve decided to give myself a driver’s license for my birthday. that means i’ve got until june 30th to pull it off. my friend says he’ll gladly give me driving lessons in a parking lot deep in the heart of new jersey - it’s where he grew up, so he knows all about it - but i have to get my learner’s permit so we’ll be practicing legally. i have to skip town for a month in the middle of may so i don’t necessarily have that much time. and there’s a class that i’m required to take, too. yeesh. and of course there are fees. more money i don’t have.

but somehow i know that it’ll be worth it, if only to wipe that smug, smarmy look off of my entire family’s face and end once and for all the endless comedy routine that erupts whenever my name and the word car is mentioned in the same sentence.

that’s my real birthday present. that’s what i really want: to silence the peanut gallery.

oh and by the way—you maybe wondering why didn’t i learn how to drive before now, because it’s such a rite of passage for teenagehood and i’m waaaay past all that and everybody’s got one and i don’t. actually, i’ve got three good reasons. just for the record, here they are:

1. from what i observed as a kid, being able to drive a car meant that i was handy for running errands. it didn’t mean that i had any real degree of freedom. i couldn’t do what i wanted to do, just because i had a driver’s license. the only thing that would give me that freedom was leaving home. clearly a jet airliner was in order, not a car. everybody wasn’t thinking like me. i know plenty of people who haven’t left their hometown yet.

1. i have spent most of my adult life in nyc - a place that has an excellent transportation system. owning a car is expensive, anyway. nevermind paying it off or the gas or parking issues. usually, you have to pay for a place to keep it when it’s not in use. i usually walk to where i’m going. when the weather’s warm, i ride a bike. most of my friends who live elsewhere drive everywhere - and they look it.

1. when i did live in texas as a college student, i rode a motorcycle—and i didn’t need to have a driver’s license to ride one. i needed a motorcycle license.

does Anybody on here… know of any FREE interactive Learning how to drive sites …? god.. the WORLD WIDE WED, is supposed to have anything and everything, available ..to view.. and it’s like .. the easiest thing to do, www.google.com<_~~is a fast way to find anything you want- and yet… i’m stuck. i can’t order any driving information because thatll put me on BLAST, here where i Live… and this is so personal to me, and i’m sooo visual, when learning so i cant deal with this stupid drivers manual book i have- it doesnt keep my focus or encourage me or anything and i’m getting so .. i feel hopeless. so i’m taking a shot in the dark,here to see if anybody hears this

I’ve been driving almost every day, but I chicken out on the long drives, like to S.C. for example. I feel really proud of myself nonetheless. You don’t know how much fear I’m getting over on this. I’m a badass.

I can drive… I just need to take the 5 hour course and sign up to get take the test for my license.

I know I can do it but feeling lazy to learn. My enemy here is laziness not car.

I am trying for my first drivers license or learners rather,since my husband bought a car and gave me his other one,in canada where I live,you have to take a written test or computer test first of knowledge of driving,the signs,techniques of driving,the rules,I passed two sections,failed the third by getting four wrong,the passing mark is 75%,this will be my third time,I only have to take the part I failed which is the third part on our laws,I am going to keep on trying to get my first,then I can go to a driving school to learn the rest.