I will fully admit that I am an awful driver. This will tell you why.
To start with I never took Driver's Ed. I waited until I was 18 and sat down in a dingy DMV and took a written test over a book about those namby-pamby rules of the road that I didn't read and passed by the skin of my teeth. I drove around a bit and then borrowed my sister's 1992 Ford Taurus and winged my way through a driving test. I was probably 4 feet from the curb during parallel parking and at one point my tester yelled for me to slow down. Yet, he passed me. God Bless Texas.
I had a license. I was UNSTOPPABLE. I ended up with my first vehicle, Clooney and drove terribly for over a year.
I killed Clooney.
I drove so much on that old truck that when it became an issue, it would have cost more to fix Clooney than we originally paid for Clooney. I sold Clooney for cash and ended up with my new car, Eve. Eve is a 2008 Dodge Caliber.
The interesting thing switching from a truck to a soccer mom mobile is that you go from being above everyone else to below everyone else. The other hard thing to deal with is the sun.
When I drive to work in the mornings, I drive East. When I drive home, I drive West. I also have poor vision. So, on the days I wear contacts I'm fine. On the days I wear glasses, I have a problem.
The sunvisor goes down and promptly blocks out the entire windshield. I lean my seat back so that I can see out the windshield. Now, I am driving leaned back, one hand on the wheel, and squinting into the sun. I look really tough.
The problem with this is that I also can't see out of my mirror. So I have to lean forward to look into the mirrors and hope I don't hit anyone.
I say mirrors. I should say mirror. Because I hit the other one off on a pole.
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Hahahaha! That sounds just like me, i tend to damage cars as well... I also hit a mirror off on a pole once, and ran around on the side of the road, looking for it, and other drivers stopped and asked what the problem was, probably thinking i'd hit someone and was now trying to locate the person bleeding to death. I was too embarrassed to say "i was just changing cd's and then i lost a mirror" so i just said everything was fine and eventually they drove away. But they probably checked the newspaper for hit and run-accidents the next day.
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