Forklifts: Great driving teachers.
Shortly after I got out of H.S., I started driving a self propelled pallet jack, then I went to work in a freezer dist. plant. The main freezer was made of slider racks and stand up lifts were required, and it had a blast cell (-80°) for hard freezing. The main aisle of the freezer was just wide enough for two stand up lifts to cross each other, tho it seemed I was the only one privy to this information, and I soon got the reputation as "crazy as a $hit house rat". My boss recognized crazy translated into skill, and I soon became the blast freezer guy, were the work was done with a regular forktruck, which was a hair narrower than a stand up lift (but longer). I loved tearing down the main aisle watching people breaking down sub-aisles in an effort to get out of my way, and watching the ones who couldn't cringe as I zipped past them, they expecting a collision that seldom came. There were complaints all the time that I was dangerous, and maybe I was, but it was fun and I never hurt anyone. I held forktruck certs from the Hyster factory, Clark, TCM, and Zero Mtn. It takes skill to know how much of a turn you can take without your ass end sliding around to meet ya, how narrow your ride is so that you don't scrape the sides.