overcome fear of driving

My goal was to be able to drive on my own to school before classes start. Well, classes are about to begin in two weeks and I still haven’t brought myself to overcome my fear of driving. Mother eff.

I’m not going to give up on this yet, though. One of these days I’ll achieve this goal, heaven willing.

(boinks myself)

You know, bibeduck, you really should haul your lazy ass out of the computer chair if you seriously want to achieve this goal.

Spent just fifteen minutes driving around the block.

I was about to turn left on an intersection when I heard a couple of honks from afar. The idiot that was me didn’t bother making a full stop at that corner, so I almost had a heart attack when this truck rushed in from behind and went on to overtake me. I wasn’t hit or anything, but it was enough to make me go slap myself and mutter, “Fork me! I already heard him coming!”

Stop at an intersection. Stop at an intersection, damn it.

So, yes, I have resolved to get over my gripping fear of driving. I promise to spend at least an hour driving around the neighborhood and, heaven willing, on the city streets. Starting today.

I’ve also decided to record my daily adventures behind the steering wheel to kind of motivate me to seriously work on this goal… and maybe entertain you, anonymous internet people, with accounts of my mad driving skillz (read: I sometimes mistake the clutch pedal for the brake pedal. How’s that for “mad”).

This morning, I drove just around our block for the first time in a couple of years, just to re-familiarize myself with the basics. I had to get back home after just an hour, though, because the weather was starting to get really hot and I didn’t want to drive with the AC on just yet (even though the AC unit was working perfectly).

I’ll give it another try this afternoon. :)

I guess the only way for me to be able to do this is, first, to do this?

ok …after I took driving lesson I started driving near by place with my hubby..I drove 2-3 times to near by grocery store. 2 times It went ok..but 3rd time I made minor mistake while changing lane but nothing happen. I am not giving up a..m going to try more driving with him and will also take driving lesson from instructor.

More Later :-)

So I took two more class from different driving instructor. So far so good. I have another appt on wednesday where he will take me to freeway.

I took one driving class! felt good but didn’t like the instructor …he made me feel bad about not practicing for so long:-( So I am trying to take appt with someone else. Let see how it goes.

This weekend I will try to take few driving lesson. I have a license but I am just too afraid of drive on my own. I will just take one step at a time and will not try to think too much about what will happen if I am not able to control my car in worse situation and etc…. Hope to achieve this goal soon as this is the no 1 list on my to do list.
Will keep you updated how things went :-)

ciao