I was talking to my boss at work today and I was telling her why I quit driving lessons when I was 18 (aside from the fact that my concentration was shot to bits from drinking and bi polar disorder)
I told her that my old instructor said that "girls who can do two things at once can never learn to drive" and how he would say I wouldn't get put forward for my test if I couldn't predict the traffic before him (an experienced instructor who guided people ten hours a day !!) . He said that I had to lift my head as high as I could and look into the horizon...this is where my boss stopped and went " No, no when you first learn to drive you have look at the road and what is right in front of you then you can do what he says" so she completely understood my dismay.
He would stop in the middle of my lessons and talk about the plants in peoples gardens like sweet peas. So one lesson I lost it and put on the hand break and refused to move.
He told me that when driving on a straight road I had to move my eyes like ping pong balls to see every single gate and opening. Again my boss frowned and said "if you keep your eyes on the road, they will automatically pick up movement such as a kid crossing the road without looking, he sounds like a prig..that would be too tiring for anyone to look around that much how strange"
I stayed with him for about 30 lessons, and I thought I had came that far I may as well dig my heels in..
But I turned to the bottle and lost all my confidence.

Now three years later I have had 15 lessons and I am doing my test next week...I am psyched really...well until I told my fiancé.
He said I could drive the car by all means ...BUT ...and it's a big but....you cannot afford to pay the £800 excess if you crash so he condescendingly said "but it is your choice...I am not trying to put you off.....