Happy & Healthy
stupid things you do when you just got your license
‘They see me rollinnnn’
Yesterday I had to drive about 90 kilometers to get from my boyfriends place to mine. Sweaty armpits included. Halfway through the drive I nearly started to panic because the highway was so packed. Call me a pussy if you want, but there are definitely things you’ll recognize if you recently got your drivers license.
Here they go:
1. You start sweating as soon as you see a roundabout appear and you end up driving around it. Twice. “WHERE am I supposed to get off?!”
2. Talking about sweating, as soon as you end up where you needed to be, you freak out because you realize how badly you had been sweating.
3. Switching lanes on the highway is another one of those things. Did I ever tell you I drove on the emergency lane for about 500 meters when I was still taking classes because I was too scared to get into the left lane.
4. You start using your car for everything. Even to get groceries even though the grocery store is only a block away from where you live.
5. You suddenly have a new place to take selfies. Because how badass do you look when you’re sitting behind the wheel. ‘They see me rollinnnn’.
“Kiki, did you really not see that guy on his bike?!” “Mom please…”
6. You’ve just driven your mom around for the first time and plan to never do it again. ‘Kiki, did you not see that guy on his bike?!’ Mom please…
7. You’re so used to always having an instructor sit next to you don’t feel entirely at ease when you’re alone in a car at first. And then a few weeks later you’ll finally appreciate it: FREEDOM.
8. Nightmare: you waiting for a light to turn green and as soon as it does you forget to switch your gear and your engine shuts off. Everyone behind you starts honking at you. Anyone have a whole in the road I can hide in?
9. You panic as soon as a light starts flickering in your car and you have no idea what it means and whether your is going to explode.
10. Parking is a nightmare so you try to look for a spot that’s got plenty of room (read: five streets away from where you need to be because there were three free parking spots in a row. And now it’s going to take you 10 minutes to walk to where you need to be, on heels, but it was totally worth it).
“Sander, can you turn down that fucking Taylor Swift music, I need to concentrate!!!”
11. You freak out when you’re at an intersection. “Okay, do I have the right of way? Okay, go. Oh shit, there’s a stop sign. Wait. Can I go now? Sander (my bf), can you turn down that fucking Taylor Swift music, I need to concentrate!!!”
12. You have a new found respect for everyone that has absolutely no problem with parallel parking in busy streets while they’re on the phone (hands free evidently).
13. Suddenly all your friends ask you if you want to be the designated driver. But you always come up with excuses not to be it.
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