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[22 Apr 2007|09:13pm] |
bloody hell. today i mounted the kerb of a bus stop because a stupid taxi suddenly slowed down in front of me and i swerved to the left in panic because there were cars coming towards my right. the worse thing is, there were at least five people at the bus stop and they all stared at me and it was so embarrassing, even with the instructor next to me. i had the last lesson slot today and though there's considerably less traffic at 8pm, the darkness makes it so much scarier, because i can't even see the brake pedal and am afraid that i'll press the accelerator instead. today i also went over a lot of humps and the instructor made me raise the accelerator to 3 (i've been at 1.5-2 all along, so this was frigging scary and i felt like everything was spinning out of control!!) just to freak me out a bit.
i'm hopeless at steering, really. sometimes i totally become irrational and go by instinct rather than sticking to the 1 turn for left/right, 2 turns for u-turns rule, which means i end up steering left 1.5 times and then panicking when it's time to align the vehicle back into the lane position. i also have a habit of suddenly stopping at left-turning zebra crossings, looking to my right, and then just freaking out and hesitating a good 5 seconds before finally stepping on the accelerator. i got to overtake quite a few cars, and whenever i overtake, i keep forgetting to flick the signalling stick back up to the original position and this annoys the instructor. but today was fun, i drove all the way to jurong and then circled bukit batok/bukit timah several times. i'm going to be in deep shit soon because i don't know the whole gear thing and just rely on the instructor.
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[22 Apr 2007|11:36pm] |
the best thing? there's no butter in it.
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