Wednesday, July 15, 2009

No more bad driving

Remember a post sometime ago when I said I'm bad at driving? And I was trying to handle the latest manual car that my Dad acquired? Yeah, I've been driving it everyday alone. Abi asked me, 'Now that you can drive by yourself, do you feel empowered?' I said, 'Yeah, I REALLY do.'

A week ago, I took out the Aveo, the first time after coming back from Amsterdam and the first time I'm driving after 3 weeks.[note: I can be a really lousy driver.] At a steep slope, where I had to stop before turning because of oncoming traffic from the right, I braked and pulled the handbrake. Now's the difficult part: I had to balance the clutch and accelerator without stalling or rolling back. To my credit, I didn't stall, but definitely rolled back. And who's behind me? A nice, big Mercedes Benz! Anyway, the fella got scared and quickly went to the next lane. It was a bad experience.

Anyway, I'm fine now. I'm more or less ok with driving the Aveo. And I feel really good. Praise God!