You know some runners during a race…they’re doing really well and they’re about to touch that finish line and then they trip and are then disqualified? I feel this is what sort of what happened to me today. Here I was doing all the 6 off-road exercises well…in fact better than I’ve ever done them…and then on the 7th one (parallel parking) I screw up. I forgot my indicator (obviously due to panic) and I didn’t enter the parking spot properly. They told me to come get my result on Monday or Tuesday but I don’t know why I even bother with all this.
I’m almost fed up with this whole driving crap stressing me out. If it’s not the instructor, it’s the inconvenient time he wants me to come drive. If it’s not that, it’s this darn test (and then the on road test which follows). Now I know why I should have done all these things when I was 18…because younger adults just get it. They are really good at following instructions, and all I’m good at doing is breaking the rules or finding an alternative route to the same objective.
I won’t lie, I am a bit bummed out by this…it’s so visible that even my instructor could see it to the point whereby he had to say “okay have a good weekend”. Why don’t you just shoot me.
To make matters worse, I have a headache and a sunburn. I was sitting in the car with the sun directly at me for 45 minutes waiting for the policeman. So I’m trying to rehydrate as I type this post. The day is nowhere over, I have a lot of work to do.
Everything’s done and there’s nothing I can do at this point but wait. So I will have to just be patient and deal with whatever situation arises on Monday. I don’t mind doing the actual test again but the worst thing is if something else goes wrong. WTF is wrong with me, why can’t I just remember all those darn indicators?
Today the instructor told me that it’s actually okay if the car stops once or twice during the test. It’s not okay if the car touches the cones. I swear, he told me the complete opposite the last time.
Anyway, come what may.
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