I've always wanted to learn how to drive. Father promised me driving lessons way back in college but I got too caught up with school stuff that driving was placed on my least priority list. More than a year after finishing nursing school, I finally have the time to learn this craft. Yeehaa!
Broom broom. I enrolled myself in a driving school coz father doesn't want to teach me himself in the streets of Cebu. He must be scared coz you'll never know what will happen if I panic behind the wheel. lol. My instructor picked me up in Mandaue. He taught me the basic rules of the road, the 5 basic parts of the car I will be using bla bla. I wanted to skip this part coz I'm so damn eager to drive this cute little car. After about 30 minutes of lecture we switched places and I was like "Wait. More lectures please." haha. The little kid got scared. Oh boy. Time to summon up all my guts. We drove around a secluded street in the reclamation area near CDU. Occasionally he would instruct me to merge traffic along the main street. Crazy! My heart was thumping like Nicki Minaj's song Super Bass. Since I was trying to learn how to drive a manual car, I need to remember a lot of stuff and store it in my big forehead. Which was a total fail by the way coz every time I see a car coming near me or people crossing the street I lose focus thus leading to car engine death. haha.
He also placed four traffic cones like this:
in a square formation and instructed me to maneuver the car in figures of 8. Can I just dance the otso-otso instead? Oh man. That was hard. I had to treat him one sola bottle for each hit cone but sorry man, no sola treat for you today. bwahaha.
Thirty minutes before my time was up, he asked me where my drop off point would be. "Ayala", I said. Nice coz free fare. But to my horror, he instructed me to drive all the way to Ayala. Too many cars. Mid day traffic. Lots of people. Loud car honks just for yours truly. Whoever was following the car I was driving, "I'm sorry. Student driver here!"
Looking forward to my second session. Crossing my fingers.
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