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Driving Drives Me Nuts written @ 11:59 AM on April 03, 2002 At freaking long last, I got my temporary driver's license this morning. I actually had it when I was a sophomore and junior, but it expired after a year. You want to know why? Because quite honestly I despise driving. Driving is one of those things that only grown-ups do, not oh-ma-gaw-I'm-almost-18-and-can-vote me. The main reasons why I haven't been able to get my license is because 1) I've been too busy and 2) I'm terrified of driving. Reason #1 may just be a lame back-up excuse to hide the truth of Reason #2, but quite frankly it's embarrassing when your neighbors and relatives ask you if you have your license and you have no choice but to reply the negative. Why am I afraid of driving? Well, when you live in Cincinnati, you have good reason to be afraid. No one out here knows what the hell they're doing. It gets worse when it rains because people here tend to forget how to drive altogether. I suppose it's all fine and dandy that I don't trust other people on the road, but I think I have a greater problem in that I, being blonde, have trouble trusting myself and having faith that I know what I'm doing. A third reason for being afraid while I'm driving is my father, who was teaching me how to drive. It all began the first day we got in his new car-- already he was nervous-- and instead of teaching me how to drive, he proceeded to put me through pilot school. "Okay, Sam, I'm going to teach you the way they taught me in the army. One of first rules we learned is that you don't strap yourself into the jet, you strap the jet to your back. That's how you've got to think of driving." Being a visual-thinking person with right-brained tendancies, this was easy to see. Unfortunately, however, my dad is left-brained, and he soon found he had very little patience for my mistakes. And if he lost his temper, that in turn made me nervous and prone to even more mistakes. So that's basically why I "let" my temps expire last year. But I think I'm ready now. I've had some time to gain confidence, and while I don't think I'll get my license before I'm 18 (my birthday is in May), I should be settled with both my license and a car before I go to college in August. I have less than 30 days to make my college decision. Someone tie me a freaking noose. Today I've got to continue to work on my school projects. In world history I have this huge presentation on the "Titanic" due in less than two weeks. It's going well; it's a topic I love so it's not like I've been pulling teeth to get it done. It's my other five projects that will be slowing me down. We're coming upon Titanic Week, starting April 10 and ending April 15. It'll be 90 years since the disaster. My birthday is exactly one month after the sinking. I think it's neat, in a non-morbid way.
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