[herr_oberst]

I took drivers ed back in the 70's.
I don't know if you remember those behemoths that we used to drive, but they were cars with names like the Chrysler Tuna Boat and the Oldsmobile Party Barge and the Chevy Residential Domicile. Even though I was a gearhead, steeped thru and thru, the fact of the matter is I could not navigate in those whales. I just was not getting the hang of driving. My saving grace was the car I dreaded the most - the VW bug. I was thinking if I couldn't drive an automatic luxo-liner, what chance did I have with a stick shift?

Shouldn't have worried. I had that thing figured out in minutes, plus, it handled like it was painted to the ground, in comparison.
And the strange thing, after a week of driving a car I could actually maneuver, I had no issues for the rest of the term with the stay-puft marshmallows. (we drove every car for a week)

My first two weeks of DE were a nightmare, the last 4 were a cakewalk.

(By the way, back in the '70's minimum driving age in Idaho was 14(!))