Sean Moore
17
June 20:49
Going further afield
Things have been progressing with my driving – right out on to roads with actual persistent traffic, in fact. And roundabouts and traffic lights too.The big leap came when I was driving along part of the usual circuit, coming up to the point where I normally turn off to avoid hitting a busy roundabout with dual carriageways. "You are going to tell me to turn off here, aren't you?" I asked the instructor as it became obvious that he wasn't going to. The answer was a cheerful negative.
And so up to the line, a fair amount of traffic streaming past. Then the big leap forward. And backward. My first roundabout stall, I was so proud. At this point the instructor decided it would be helpful to recount how one of his other students had been run into from behind at that very spot, and just how he managed to get a replacement number plate from a coach company under questionable circumstances. While interesting, this story was not particularly useful at that moment.
By the time he had finished I was across the roundabout and half way to the next, equally busy one, which I somehow managed to get round intact and without stalling, albeit in rather the wrong position. After that it was into fourth and half an hour of fun dodging buses, complaining about badly trimmed hedges and working out what on earth some drivers were trying to do outside the old people's home.
Confidence is growing, ability is growing, body count is staying the same. I'm happy.
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