Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Learning to drive: Day 4

We start every morning like she has never done this before, and I patiently answer the same questions again and again. I know she has passed the written exam but still, "Do I stop at a green light to turn right?" gets asked every morning. She confesses that mom took her out to practice a little too. Today we are working at maintaining speed, and going with the flow of traffic. She starts out slow from a light, then accelerates hard, passing cars on the right, "to make up for it." Wandering back and forth from the left edge of the lane to the curb, she does a good job of not hitting the brakes unnecessarily. Eventually we end up behind a slow moving car in the right lane, and follow it to school. She asks, "If she blended with everyone?" I tell her (as humourously as possible) "at this point, the only way you would blend was if everyone else on the road was drunk." - 30 min.

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