It was the night before my driver’s test, and with each passing hour I felt the anxiety creep into my veins. Vying for first place with high school graduation and prom night, receiving a driver’s license is one of the biggest milestones in a teenager’s life. A driver’s license means midnight runs to Sheetz, road trips to the beach, and rides to the mall without your mom blowing kisses from the car as you walk sheepishly towards your friends. What more could a teenager want than these perks? Of course, I was hyper-aware of all that was at stake in regards to my driver’s test. Thus, the night before the exam, I intensively studied my driver’s manual and watched YouTube videos that offered helpful driving pointers. I even dragged my mother along for one more practice run on the road.
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I used to think learning to drive would be easy, but because I almost crashed my mom’s car, I have been too scared to really learn and haven’t been allowed behind the wheel ever since. That’s a sad story and it’s been about two or three years since. Now, I’m pretty sure everyone wants to learn to drive as a teenager, especially when you’re a junior or senior in high school. My parents taught my older brothers and sister to drive when they were still in high school and so me being the youngest I wanted to be just like them
Can you remember when you got your driver?s license? From what I can remember getting my license was one of the most exciting things in my life. Having your license means having more freedom. If I didn?t have my license my life would be very different. To get your license you need to take the class, pass the written test, take behind the wheel, and finally take your driving test.
Do you remember when you were little and you could not wait until you hit sixteen so you could go and get your driving permit? I remember waiting until that special day so I could go down to the DMV to take my test to get my drivers permit. My stomach had butterflies floating all around inside it. I remembered they called my name, and then I had to go up to the front and take a test. I went and turned in the test, and was so nervously watching to see how many red checks they would make on my test. As I had my eyes glued to checker’s hand, with the red, felt tip pen interlaced in between her fingers, I anxiously awaited her telling me that I passed. After leading me on a nervous roller coaster ride, she looked up and told me that I did indeed pass the test. I suddenly got the chills throughout my body to know that I am legal to drive on the roads, of course with somebody else in the car. After a few months of driving with one of my parents in the car, it was now time for me to go and take the big test. Once again I got that nervous, sick feeling in my stomach. I had gotten to the DMV and it was my turn to go get into the car with somebody I had never met before in my life and who was going to put the check mark next to pass or fail. I was so scared and kept thinking can I just bribe her to let me pass the test without actually having to do it, but of course the answer to that question was no. So after completing a dr...
As I looked in the mirror to myself, I thought of everything I had to do to pass. As my mom was driving me there, it felt like it had been an eternity before we got to our destination. I got out of my mom’s car with a major case of butterflies. Then a friendly man named, Russ, approached me and told me that he will be my driving instructor. When we get into the vehicle, he told me to park, reverse out, drive to the traffic light, come back and parallel park. I was going as slow as molasses with everything because I was so nervous, but he kept reassuring me that I was moving along just fine. During the parallel parking, I was trying to rush through the steps and I notice I am a little too far away from the curb. After readjusting 4 times, he gave me the news that I had passed my first and only driver’s test! With all the criticism I experienced with my dad, I had not let it phase me, since I had passed my
A week before the test our teacher gave us a heads up on when the test was going to be. In my mind, I thought the test would be a multiple choice test and that the questions would be similar to the ones went in class. So, as the weekend approached, believing I had the test covered, I went on with being reckless on the weekend. However, it turns out that what I thought was the time of my life ended up biting me in the rear end.
I was one of the many who wasn’t fortunate enough to receive their license the first time through. I was slightly unprepared for the task and hit the curb on the 50 feet straight line back up. I wasn’t informed that I had to look behind me and not use my mirrors when backing up. I had practiced multiple times the day before to prepare my self thinking I would be all set and was doing great. The morning of the test my nerves took over and like most tests for me, I got way to nervous and over thought it. I then drove the car back and got the hear the speech from the instructor “You need to work on your backing up, parallel parking and you can send this green paper back for a new date”. I was holding back the tears as I got the lecture waiting for her to leave so I could get my disappointment out. About an hour after I was over this failure moment, went and sent out for my second
A few months ago, after a rather discouraging math test, the results confirmed my fears. I had failed the test. For many people, this wouldn’t be a huge deal, but for me, it felt like my life had just crashed down before my eyes.
Multiple long weeks went by, and it was time to do my state testing. I was way too nervous. I went to bed having butterflies and woke up the exact same way. I knew that I would do okay on the written test, but the skills is what was getting to me since they test so strictly. I got to the classroom which at this point I was super nervous I was sweating. 8:00 came which meant it was time to test. An hour time limit passed, and we waited for our grade. I waited nervously to get back my test. Only missing 2 I had passed the written state test! Now onto the skills test. I was sweating like a pig, being very anxious to take the skills
Wednesday, October 13, 2013 is a date I will never forget. On that day, time stopped for a moment. I was sixteen and only had my license for a month. I was so excited about having so much freedom, that I was driving every day, with no hesitation. I was invincible,or so I thought. This day changed my thinking completely. What started out as a normal day, quickly turned into one that was very different from any other. I had just gotten out of cheer practice and was on my way home. On the way, I realized that I needed gas, so I decided to go through South Carolina, since they have the lowest gas prices. It was not out of the way, so to say. It was just another rout home. It was not the first time I had taken this way, but, it was definitely the last.