DRIVING

I found lessons not too bad, the instructor has foot controls and can stop things getting too dangerous. I passed the test first time, the test was a bit stressful. I then drove for decades. For a while I drove a 200 mile each way trip every fortnight. Then my employer doubled the parking charges and I worked out that a weekly bus ticket was cheaper than parking, petrol and running a car. After stopping my daily commute drive, I soon lost confidence, made worse by seemingly all the local major junctions becoming ridiculously complicated and frankly, illogically laid out. As a result, I now drive once a year to the local garden centre to pick up a Christmas tree. The rest of the time my wife has the car and drives me.

I found lessons not too bad, the instructor has foot controls and can stop things getting too dangerous. I passed the test first time, the test was a bit stressful. I then drove for decades. For a while I drove a 200 mile each way trip every fortnight. Then my employer doubled the parking charges and I worked out that a weekly bus ticket was cheaper than parking, petrol and running a car. After stopping my daily commute drive, I soon lost confidence, made worse by seemingly all the local major junctions becoming ridiculously complicated and frankly, illogically laid out. As a result, I now drive once a year to the local garden centre to pick up a Christmas tree. The rest of the time my wife has the car and drives me.