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A couple things I remember about (HS) driver’s ed: while moving along with the rest of the traffic along a highway (at maybe eight mph over the speed limit), my instructor questioned me as to why I was driving over the speed limit. My very straightforward answer: “Well, everyone else is going this fast…and I’m just moving with the rest of the traffic.” Driver’s Ed instructor looks straight ahead and does not respond.
…and those Driver’s Ed movies we had to watch - featuring an attractive female student and handsome male instructor (sorta like a Barbie and Ken), in a classic red convertible - there was a sequence with the instructor in the drivers seat, explaining something to his student while looking directly at her and not at the road ahead…for what seemed like thirty seconds!
As for my driver’s test - I had the last scheduled “slot” on that day, and the tester-guy was obviously tired and anxious to get home. There came a point where I’d performed all of my required “tasks” except for parallel parking. Thing is…I’d truly nailed parallel parking in practice - and was very eager to show my tester-man how great I was at this. But suddenly we were back at the local DMV/PD office parking lot - without having parallel parked…and I blurted out “what about parallel parking - isn’t that a required part of the test?” To which he replied, “nah…don’t worry about it - just pull into the parking slot between those two cars, and that will be fine.” Well, WTF?!
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