Yesterday I was given a free driving lesson.I was over at the Buszy for a meeting about the festival we are planning to stage next Summer and the MAD organisation had been contacted by two guys who run driving schools who specialise in giving lessons to younger people who haven't had experience in driving, so that when they try for real for the first time, it isn't a completely new concept.
To get around the fact that it's actually illegal for me to drive a car on the public highway yet, we just drove on private land - the old bus station. Before we got started, I was asked if I had any driving experience - I told them unless you counted a Legoland drivers licence, then no . . .
When it actually came to driving, I was aware of certain things that I was probably expected to do, the first being stalling it, which thankfully I managed to avoid, much to the approval of my instructor. The next thing I was worried about was accidentally pushing too hard on the accelerator and going straight into the metal fence, ruining the car in the process. I didn't do that either. What I did manage to do was successfully navigate around the course, following my instructor's commands and advice correctly, which I know isn't quite as exciting as crashing and making a huge fireball, but it was certainly as exciting for me to snail along at 10 mph as it would have been at 100 . . .
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