Driving Lesson Number 23.

Well I managed to keep my instructor from hijacking the lesson this week and we actually did what was discussed last week! Yippee!!

He got me over my phobia of roundabouts a few weeks back and I think he may now have achieved the same for reversing round a corner!

The first one I did was quite crap to be honest because I didn't get the car lined up properly or anything but I did get better, honest! My main problem has been trying to keep the speed down as I'm turning, which is extremely hard because there are hardly any corners that aren't on some kind of slope, be it large or small!

He also decided that we'd go up a narrow road that is bad for cars coming the other way that you have to pull in for. He said we were going to pretend that there were cars coming the other way so he was going to get me to pull in between cars to let said cars past, though it turned out that plenty cars came anyway, so no pretending was needed!

After a few more reverses round a couple more corners he decided we'd have another couple parallel parks because that's another thing that I'm not too crash hot at, though better than reversing round a corner! The first was a bit fast but I got in and managed better the second time round.

We saw an utterly amazing sight on the way home though! This guy must've been at least 6 foot tall and built like a brick outhouse (for want of a better word!) and he was carrying a child's red and yellow umbrella with some kind of pattern on it!! Hehehehe! Both myself and my instructor were in hysterics, so much so that I forgot to go into 1st gear on a roundabout and almost stalled! Oops! Very funny though! Tee hee!

So we headed for home and I executed a really parallel park over the road from my house, which my husband missed because he didn't know I'd pulled up! D'oh!! Ah well...

Only a few more days till my theory test now so I'll carry on with my swatting and update with the outcome. Hopefully it'll be good news, but who really knows, I could have a memory blank or anything when I sit in front of that computer!!

Shouldn't tempt fate really! Fingers crossed everyone...