Okay, the FUNNIEST thing happened at drivers training today.
So, we actually started driving today.
Weird, considering we started yesterday, and most of yesterday was talking about the first day stuff, textbook and class rules and stuff like that.
So basically we just go out there and drive. The only thing we really learned prior to that was the steps you do before you drive, which were stupid, like adjusting seats, mirrors, etc.
But anyway,
We have BRAND NEW CARS, ours only had 92 miles on it.
They are mostly Dodge Caravans, there was a smaller GMC truck, and a trailblazer, a G6 and an Impala. Way more Caravans than anything else, which is weird.
I thought it was weird they have such big boxy cars, but maybe there's a reason.
Anyway, this kid I know, he's on the range (Part with the cones) in a red G6, he's not that smart. We have to just go in and out of the cones REALLY slow, it's like in a basketball court in the elementary school. This kid goes to turn the corner (It's a tight corner, if you don't want to hit the cone) and he is going really slow, and the front left corner of the car goes RIGHT into the metal chain-link fence! It wasn't me, so it was SO FUNNY! I mean, if I was in an '08 (or '09) PONTIAC G6, and it was remotely close to a fence, i wouldn't KEEP GOING! I mean, how often am I going to be in an '08 anything while the year is still 2008?! Not that often!
It was the funniest thing. One of the instructors was mad. There was no scratches or anything because the car just hit the chain part and he wasn't going far or fast enough to actually push it out to the point where it broke.
It was so funny. The instructor like screamed. I was on the phone with a friend, and I was like (INSERT NAME) JUST RAN INTO A FENCE HAHAHAHA!
It made my day.
My partner and I were in an '08 Trailblazer, or maybe it was an '09?
It had the newer style body though, the back windshield was smaller.
Anyway, it's hard going from a tiny low little 97 dodge neon to this big trailblazer. I'd be pushing the brakes but it wouldn't be stopping like I expected with the neon. It took me a while to grasp that it's a lot heavier.
My partner went first, she got a lot of the good roads. By good roads, I mean good MICHIGAN roads, so it's equal to really bad roads everywhere else.
She did really good.
Our instructor was really nice, we were playing music trivia when my partner was driving, which probably sucked for her. We couldn't play when I was driving because I wasn't as good as she was and he was always telling me stuff. lol.
But my complaints with him...HE TALKED SO QUIET!
He seemed SO DISTRACTED by the radio. He kept tuning it, turning it up, singing, blah blah blah. It didn't bother me that much, it's just that the volume of his voice was the same when the radio was ON as when it was OFF, so he'd say something and neither of us would know what he said.
He would just be like "Turn right up here" while tuning the radio, and it's not like I know what i'm doing. I wanted him to say the STREET name, because there's only like 20 million places to turn right...
And I accidently took a wrong turn because he said "Turn right here" and I thought he literally meant turn RIGHT, but apparently he wanted me to go left, he just used the word "right" in a different context.
My bad. Just kidding, it's his bad.
In the end he said:
"Cover brake thru turns."
"Brake Soon"
"Improved as we went."
Which is good.
I'm finding out that I drive like my dad, which is fast and FUN. lol.
He said that we were the best group he's had, because we weren't fond of going like 2mph like everyone else was. I think he meant it in a good way though, he said we knew there was no need to slow it down when the road's straight and there's no obstacles, and that we knew we shouldn't be nervous and hesitate, which was pretty accurate.
And he would NOT tell me the freakin speed limits!
He would, yet he wouldn't. He would tell me when there was obviously a sign, but when I needed to know he didn't tell me. I just assumed if I didn't see a sign it would be 55, but then he would be like "You can bring it up to 65 here" and I would be like uhh...okay. We weren't on a highway or interstate or anything, so I thought it was weird he said I could go 65, I thought the maximum it could be unless on a freeway or highway or whatever was 55, but I just trusted what he said.
Oh, and he would be like "WOAH, DID YOU SEE THAT TURKEY IN THAT FIELD?" "WHAT IS THAT THEY'RE BUILDING RIGHT THERE? A HOCKEY THING?" "WOW, LOOK AT THAT HUGE WILLOW TREE OVER THERE, DID YOU SEE IT?!" and I wouldn't say anything, but I would be thinking "***, was I SUPPOSED to be looking at that farm?! It's lowell, farms are nothing exciting!"
It was funny.
Tomorrow I have to do the cones. I'm not looking forward to it, it sounds much harder than the road. Going slow is way harder than going fast for me, I get impatient. I guess that's just me being Mr.Speedypants!
That's most of my day.
How was everyone elses?!
I'm going to the doctor this evening.
