drive again

I have had about 4 lessons with a driving instructor, it’s been very useful but now that I am getting better he has started shouting at me!!! go figure.
This is taking my confidence away and now I want to try to drive on my own, at least I won’t have a stupid crow on my shoulder any more!

I want to drive again

Still can’t get into doing that … I am scaaaaared! I would like to overcome this fear for sure, but i need help for it. And maybe associate it to another goal (like a weekend in the coutryside and stopping where i want, when i want). I guess I have to start with some driving lessons and then drive by myself directly. Something I have never done after having had my driving licence, and which i am sure would have helped me to build confidence in my driving, instead of listening to the harsh criticism of my father as if it were the uncontestable truth.
I won’t put this thing in my very first priorities for 2008 but I would still want to give myself a chance to try myself at it. At least at the thought of it :-)

I will never have the confidence to do this. It’s just not happening.

I no longer have a car of my own and I’m not allowed to drive my Dad’s car, even if I wanted to. Which I don’t.

So this is definitely not happening soon!

Tonight I did the same trip as yesterday, except alone this time to pick up my Mum from work. I’m working on getting it back!! This really means the earth to me – I never thought I’d ever drive alone again!!

:-D

I’ve barely driven my car in three years. My confidence needs rebuilding, the first stage is to feel comfortable driving with a passenger beside me. I’ve just made a short trip into the main street where I live, about a mile. My Dad sat beside me in the passenger seat.

I felt pretty good, after I got onto the main street. I felt relaxed but I know I need to take this confidence rebuilding very slowly to regain my confidence. I’ve got a few months to do this before I move out of home.

I learnt to drive in 1992 and passed my test in 1993 when I was 18. I was confident behind the wheel – I drove to work at the library in town every day alone.

I moved on from the library in 1996 and then started to use my car less, which made the brakes seize up, which in turn made me very wary of driving anywhere alone when the car was unreliable. Which stopped me driving.

I had a couple of spates of driving regularly again – in 2001/2002 I used to drive me and Mum to an evening class in town on a Wednesday evening but once that was over, I lost my regained ground.

I’ve got behind the wheel a few times since but I’ve only driven within the village. It took me ages to venture out on the main road again, but I haven’t done it for ages. I hope I haven’t lost it forever – in fact I’m sure I haven’t. But I need to work on getting it back with more short trips out by myself and with someone beside me.

an undertaker does need to jet out of town to dump a load every now and then…