So…MILESTONE ! Half way home from drivers ed class tonight, Middle Child decided she wanted to drive home.
“Um, you do know that you’ll have to drive on the main streets…right?”
“Yep. I don’t think there’s that ‘much’ of main street driving til we get to our house”
Pretty much the ‘conversation’ went like this the whole way home:
“Stay on your side. On your side. On YOUR side.”
“Okay, sorry. ”
“Your side. Stay over on your side” (coming to a steep hill) “Give it gas. More gas. Ya gotta give it gas. (a line of cars behind us) Keep on the gas. More gas” “Stay in your lane”
“Oh no, I have to get in the turning lane. I’m scared to get over into the turning lane”
“Just stay in your lane, inside the lines. In your lane! In your lane! ” ((I’m sweating bullets))
“Mom… does ‘having the right-away’ mean that the person on the right…always has the right to go first?”
“No. Pay attention”
At this point I’m thinking how different my two daughters are during the learning to drive stage. With my oldest I was CONSTANTLY yelling….brake…brake….BRAKE! (While grabbing at the door and bracing my leg to the dash.) Not this kid, I have to remind her to get going! lol. And just as I’m thinking that exact thought, we pull into the driveway at 25 miles an hour, kicking up a large cloud of dust at the end of the drive.
“Brake! You have to BRAKE!” (Then we come to a sudden halt. Jolting forward to the dashboard. And…stop.)
“I didn’t know I had to brake”
And then that familiar pit was felt in my stomach.
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love this story. felt like i was in the car with you
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Sheila! Woman, this one gave me a big ol’ laugh this morning. You know I’ve been down the whole, brake, stay on your side, did you check your mirror, go ahead turn, stay on your side, brake brake brake! conversation road a lot this past year! You know it gets better, we pray!
Thanks for the chuckle……have a good weekend!
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Now she sounds even more like me! My dad used to say that I always drove 30. It did not matter whether I was on the highway or the driveway. If it is any comfort, I actually ended up as a safe driver and never got rear-ended while creeping around learning to drive.
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WOW it sounded so much easier when “you” were learning to drive. Lol, mom
Oh man… this made me laugh out loud! Reminds of the one time, I let a friends daughter move my car for me. She was 16, I was in the car with her. She just needed to back it up & park it on the side of the street. When I told her to slowly step on the gas & she said LOOKED down at her feet & said, “Which one is the gas?” I should’ve made her get out, lol. We almost took out the neighbors mailbox! lol
I have a long time before I have to worry about my girls driving, lol.
OMG Sheila! I hope you don’t mind that I found this incredibly funny. After this is all over you’ll need to dye the grey hairs that she’s given you.
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hahaha! she had my same problem
i failed my first driver’s test because get this: i didn’t go fast enough. i went *exactly* the speed limit instead of about 5 over, and he said that it looked like i wasn’t confident because of it! insane!!!!
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Too funny! When my younger sister was learning to drive, she ran into the retaining wall on the side of our driveway. She said she FORGOT to turn. She was in my car.
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Oh man….you just reminded me that I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS someday with my kids. I never let my Mom drive with me…she always freaked…come to think of it….she still does!
I just flashed ahead to when my kids will be learning to drive. Yikes.
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