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Originally Posted by eskielover
HUH????? I commented that I hated the sheltered life that not driving causes even for the kids of someone who doesn't drive......It's important to KNOW how to drive. Limiting one's life by not driving is not a good thing because in most places public transportation is horrible & it doesn't get one to the places in a timely way in the first place.
I resented my mother for not driving & being totally dependent on everyone else & being totally stuck when there was no one there for her to depend on when my dad was working. That was why it was so important for me to learn how to drive as young as I could learn because I didn't want to be anything like my mother. Driving = Freedom & independence.
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Yeah - my post wasn't 100% relevant and I apologize. I was mostly agreeing with the fact on how necessary it is (a lot of people argue against it saying "oh you can just get other ways").
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At first he wasn't, but when he realized that I didn't believe that I can do it he was heavily on it. We would argue a lot about it, I refused to drive but he keep pushing me to do it. He would sit on the passenger seat, sometimes I would even sit and have my hands on the steering wheel and he would hold the steering wheel with one hand and control it while I would control the gas and pedal (not something I would recommend that drove me very nervous, but somehow it worked).
Then, once I got more control of it he would guide me through words, "try not to stop too close to the cars, let go of the gas, press the break slowly" and so on until I got the hang of it on my own. There's things I don't feel comfortable with though but still learning.
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I'm okay with braking and the basics. It's the fine tuning of skills like turning (I tend to get nervous and stop before I turn, even when it's wide open) and can't seem to get past that simple step.