driver mode: unlocked

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Who taught you how to drive?

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The state of Minnesota requires 50 hours of supervised driving from a parent or guardian and 15 of those hours must be at night. My dad taught me how to drive. He also taught me how to drive a stick shift since he drove mostly manual cars.

Let’s just say that there was a lot of yelling in Korean on my dad’s part and me having a menty b whenever it came to parallel parking. I have to say it did came in very handy (unlike the midpoint formula) while I was at uni because street parking was a lot cheaper than the lots and I had places to go.

They also require 6 hours of behind the wheel instructor with a licensed instructor. Not only did I have to attend a driver’s education class on a Saturday, my instructor drove to my place and picked me up with one of cars that had a brake pedal on the passenger side of the car that could override me along with a big fat embarrassing sticker that had STUDENT DRIVER plastered all over the backside.

This dude had me on every freeway going round and round on these butterfly freeway interchanges. I thought I was going to get nauseous and throw up but I persevered! *shakes fist*

In turn, I taught my brother how to drive both automatic and manual. And I too… forced him to go round and round on the freeway until we both got nauseous.


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18 responses to “driver mode: unlocked”

  1. Liz Avatar

    Those kind of freeways would crap me up. I have had plenty of lessons. First in a manual. I quit after the way the driving instructor was. So I had gone from gaining confidence to losing it in a second. I looked for another driving instructor and noticed they also did automatic. So, I chose automatic. I felt better with driving an automatic. But unfortunately, after two driving tests. I didn’t pass. The second driving test was when sat navs were introduced in the test and unfortunately I was one of many who landed with that. As I did not have a cochlear implant then and I relied on completely visual meant I did not want a sat nav. As a deaf person, I want my eyes on the road. Not a screen. And I feel the same about this regardless of hearing with a cochlear implant now. I also had one of those bastard test instructors that no one likes. I was failed. He grabbed my steering wheel to keep me in track with the sat nav part. Otherwise we weren’t in any danger. So, he should not have grabbed my steering wheel. I wish, before the test started, just got out and left.
    And I have no further attempts with this and I gave up my licence. I will keep my feet on the ground instead.
    But I am glad of the experience in an automatic car. Automatic car is best for me. But I have no intention of driving or trying again.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      aw that instructor sounds like a true ass hat!! ugh sorry you had to go through that 🙁

  2. mylittlehawk Avatar
    mylittlehawk

    i hate the roundabouts we have to do because here, people will deliberately mess with you when they see it’s a driving school car. i don’t know why that’s so funny to them?? and i wear glasses and can’t see shit

    1. justrojie Avatar

      oh man that’s so not cool!

      1. mylittlehawk Avatar
        mylittlehawk

        it’s so frustrating and dangerous?? like, is anyone thinking about that??

        1. justrojie Avatar
  3. Ajinkya Rane Avatar

    I drive stick but I failed my first test because the cop who was taking the test didn’t like my boyish voice he thought I was underage despite the ID.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      wtf that’s jacked

  4. Nicholas K F Matte Avatar

    Haha! “round and round”!

  5. ibarynt Avatar

    Not bad you taught your brother.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      He didn’t have a choice since my parents were busy

  6. Nicholas K F Matte Avatar

    Me too, an in class week long course, then some dude in a supedup car with a safety break thing I think, then my test in my van. I remember just driving up Elgin here where the War Memorial is, it’s an important artery of the capital and the guy used the safety break at Laurier st. Oops 😬

    1. justrojie Avatar

      😳 stay safe, Nico!

  7. Cai Avatar

    You’re a good sister and teacher to your brother. 🙂

    1. justrojie Avatar

      😂 at the time it didn’t feel like it

  8. Michael Williams Avatar

    to this day, i have no idea how I was able to adapt to freeway driving. it was simply sink or swim, i suppose!Mike

    1. justrojie Avatar

      😂 I could take local roads but it would take waaaay longer to get anywhere

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