Narrative Essay About Driving

That moment every teenager waits several months even years for comes that one day, and you get the butterfly sensation in your stomach, has finally arrived. All of the preparation they have done and completed will finally be recognized. You don 't realize how driving could really impact your life the way it does, it doesn 't seem like you really ever need it as much as people think. People use transportation every day whether it be: the bus, bike, or a car; living in the city makes driving become necessity. Learning to drive isn 't just to get yourself to school and maybe to McDonalds and back home, most jobs nowadays require a driver 's license: journalism, truck driving(think about it, if we didn 't have these people we wouldn 't be able

A couple days before the test I went the the Motor Vehicle Division and practiced what I would have to do, I got it down to a T, where exactly I had to turn by imaginary marking it on the trash can beside the parking space. Now the part that I thought would be so scary, driving with someone I didn’t even know in the car, and they were supposed to be judging my driving, as she continued to say left, right, straight, we came upon the highway and I was supposed to turn right, at the stop light, and I couldn’t get myself to make the turn, thinking that maybe that wasn’t legal, with entirely it was completely legal and I was just nervous. When we got back to the MVD, the woman had told me there was no where to mark me down, and I was given my license! That morning I still had to go to school, so there I was in my car, all by myself, which I thought would have been good- no one to complain, and definitely no one to change the radio station. It all seemed so great until I realized I was all by myself, no one to talk to, and no one to make small conversations with on the way to school. My mom was so worried about me driving by myself to school she made me text her for about two weeks when I arrived

I studied for months on end reading that booklet front to back day after day. Then the day finally came that I could take my test, I didn 't pass by one single question. Most would have given up, but it didn’t stop me, I studied harder than before, I took online practice tests and my mom quizzed me; I went back the next day nervous as the first, and finally passed, even though I wasn’t dressed up and looking cute like I was the first time, it was okay because I finally had my permit! The required forty hours seemed like it would be impossible to accomplish, but within a couple of months I had these hours in the bag. Just as the day was approaching to receive my license after six long months of patiently waiting, a really eye opener experience happened. Everyday I would drive to school with my mother and little sister, then I would get out and go to school and my mom would go to work. But just as we approached the school in a tiny Hyundai Accent car, we were almost struck by a ginormous city trash truck, just as I saw this, I swerved out of my lane into the oncoming traffic and was almost hit by another car. I realized at this moment peoples lives are put into harms