Comments on: Driving Skills? WHAT Driving Skills? http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/ …“Let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Enjoyer of the Journey http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Enjoyer of the Journey Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:32:16 +0000 http://heresmycuplord.wordpress.com/?p=1411#comment-143 I got my driving skills by way of failing the driving part of my drivers test THREE times in three different cars. I couldn't parallel park, but I could do everything else. My grandpa used to use toy cars to help me understand how to parallel park, and we would practice "driving" them after dinner each night. I was 17 before I had a license, and I ended up not using it for almost a year because I did not have a car. I guess the toy car trainig worked. When I finally did have a car, it took me five years before I got a ticket, and it took me eight years before I was in a car accident (not my fault...stupid deer). My grandma still has a panic attack when I gun it at a yellow light or take an exit from the fast lane, but she's learned that I know what I'm doing. Trust Rena, you <i>always</i> end up knowing what you're doing when driving. It's like riding a bike. I got my driving skills by way of failing the driving part of my drivers test THREE times in three different cars. I couldn’t parallel park, but I could do everything else. My grandpa used to use toy cars to help me understand how to parallel park, and we would practice “driving” them after dinner each night. I was 17 before I had a license, and I ended up not using it for almost a year because I did not have a car. I guess the toy car trainig worked. When I finally did have a car, it took me five years before I got a ticket, and it took me eight years before I was in a car accident (not my fault…stupid deer). My grandma still has a panic attack when I gun it at a yellow light or take an exit from the fast lane, but she’s learned that I know what I’m doing.

Trust Rena, you always end up knowing what you’re doing when driving. It’s like riding a bike.

]]> By: Marilyn http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Marilyn Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:34 +0000 http://heresmycuplord.wordpress.com/?p=1411#comment-140 I got my driving skills from my mother. I am from the country and lived on back woods roads... dirt roads. I would beg my mom to let me drive even as a young teen. She would let me drive on the back roads. Even before that my mom and dad would let me sit in their laps as a small child a steer. I did the same thing with my boys. I can't remember a time that I didn't drive. I got my driving skills from my mother. I am from the country and lived on back woods roads… dirt roads. I would beg my mom to let me drive even as a young teen. She would let me drive on the back roads. Even before that my mom and dad would let me sit in their laps as a small child a steer. I did the same thing with my boys. I can’t remember a time that I didn’t drive.

]]> By: Laura http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Laura Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:43:28 +0000 http://heresmycuplord.wordpress.com/?p=1411#comment-139 PS - Not to tell tales out of school - but my sweet daddy has probably gotten more tickets and been in more "fender benders" than any one person I know. I learned from the best! Laura PS – Not to tell tales out of school – but my sweet daddy has probably gotten more tickets and been in more “fender benders” than any one person I know. I learned from the best!

Laura

]]> By: Laura http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Laura Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:42:34 +0000 http://heresmycuplord.wordpress.com/?p=1411#comment-142 I got my driving skills from my Dad. My dad was great at taking teenagers for "driving lessons". He taught my aunts to drive, then he taught me and all my brothers. He was such an adventurous teacher - My favorite memory of driving lessons is him taking me out to a huge concrete expanse - an old airstrip that was no longer used - on a RAINY day. We were going to experiment with bad driving conditions. Ok he says - Floor it! Then after a few seconds of speeding up he says "Turn your steering wheel and slam on your brakes!" I did... "See," he says - "That's what it feels like if your car spins out of control and hydroplanes. You don't want that to happen." Lesson learned! I'm an excellent driver...and a Believer! LAURA I got my driving skills from my Dad. My dad was great at taking teenagers for “driving lessons”. He taught my aunts to drive, then he taught me and all my brothers. He was such an adventurous teacher – My favorite memory of driving lessons is him taking me out to a huge concrete expanse – an old airstrip that was no longer used – on a RAINY day. We were going to experiment with bad driving conditions.

Ok he says – Floor it! Then after a few seconds of speeding up he says “Turn your steering wheel and slam on your brakes!” I did…

“See,” he says – “That’s what it feels like if your car spins out of control and hydroplanes. You don’t want that to happen.”

Lesson learned!

I’m an excellent driver…and a Believer!
LAURA

]]> By: Addiction Mom http://heresmycuplord.com/2008/11/13/driving-skills-what-driving-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Addiction Mom Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:57:21 +0000 http://heresmycuplord.wordpress.com/?p=1411#comment-141 I got my driving skills in ohio in drivers education! I got my driving skills in ohio in drivers education!

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