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Jul. 29th, 2008 04:11 pmA grueller of a driving lesson. For the first hour we worked on turns; I had a terrible time, once putting too much brake on (resulting in my stalling when on the point of turning right, with cars queued behind me) and once hitting the gas when coming out of a left turn before I'd straightened up (meaning I almost mounted the pavement). I also had some trouble at first keeping the brake on while pushing the clutch down to move down to first gear waiting at a junction.
Next we did reversing in a straight line. As well as the neck strain from turning to look out of the back window, when I wasn't moving too fast I was drifting out to the right or making the common mistake of getting my steering direction the wrong way round.
For the last 20 minutes we went out onto the open road, this time going to new streets - round Anglesey and out by Haslar. By this part, my mistakes were drawing Peter's irritable side out, notably when we were goinglong a narrow road by the bay and I allowed an oncoming car on the other side too much room, meaning our car's left-hand side was brushing the bushes growing by the side of the road. Then there were things like slowing down for bends or junctions too early or too late, and taking turns too wide...
Peter had regained his patience by the time we pulled up at the end, and just said we'd keep working on everything but it'd take a long time. Ho hum.
Next we did reversing in a straight line. As well as the neck strain from turning to look out of the back window, when I wasn't moving too fast I was drifting out to the right or making the common mistake of getting my steering direction the wrong way round.
For the last 20 minutes we went out onto the open road, this time going to new streets - round Anglesey and out by Haslar. By this part, my mistakes were drawing Peter's irritable side out, notably when we were goinglong a narrow road by the bay and I allowed an oncoming car on the other side too much room, meaning our car's left-hand side was brushing the bushes growing by the side of the road. Then there were things like slowing down for bends or junctions too early or too late, and taking turns too wide...
Peter had regained his patience by the time we pulled up at the end, and just said we'd keep working on everything but it'd take a long time. Ho hum.