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Apollyphelion
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How hard is it to drive?
#7819131 - 01/01/08 06:45 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think I'm retarded, because driving seems like a herculean task for me.
Did anyone here have super freak outs? Massive anxiety? I don't GET driving. Maybe I'm just being a sissy and have to man up?
Anyone can share god-awful learning experiences?
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Ego Death
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Just relax and its easy.
After a while it becomes automatic, you don't even have to think about it.
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Apollyphelion
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Ego Death]
#7819171 - 01/01/08 07:27 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's so weird...
Did you learn from a school, self-taught, or parents/friends?
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I was never "freaked out" by driving but it didn't interest me much either.
I waited till I was 18 so I wouldn't have to get a permit then I waited another year to actually get my license.
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Ego Death]
#7819204 - 01/01/08 07:41 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Opiates make things muuuuuch less depressing and oooooooooooh, falling off the chair in slow motion.........nooooooooooooooooooooo....wammmmmmmmm. Ok, back up on my chair, But my ear feels like wax crap but you know what I mean? Heroin makes things a lot less ... ah... ahha.
I was outside and saw two bloody people from fights and other people hitting other people too. Blood spatters all ov
Anyway, use drugs, things better? WTF is this thread about anyway?
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Ego Death
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From a school.
I know what you mean though. I had "freak outs" as you put it.
But they go away as you get used to it.
I started to suffer from road hypnosis. Its where u drive miles without remembering it, u suddenly become aware yet you don't remember half the jouney! When I became aware all of a sudden, I would start to wobble all over the road!
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Apollyphelion
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Ego Death]
#7819229 - 01/01/08 07:56 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ego Death said:
I started to suffer from road hypnosis. Its where u drive miles without remembering it, u suddenly become aware yet you don't remember half the jouney! When I became aware all of a sudden, I would start to wobble all over the road!

Complete insanity.
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Muppet
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I feel ya bro...cars is like kryptonite to me too mang
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Muppet]
#7819295 - 01/01/08 08:41 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just remined me i gotta drive to phili airport to pick up my friend. To bad iv never been there in my life, should be interesting.
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What the hell?
I don't see how adults can be afraid of cars. Didn't your parents bother to teach you how to drive? I got my learner's permit when I was 14 years old so I could drive back and forth to school. I was driving the harvester out in the field when I was 12. Granted, I never did any city driving until I was 18, but it only takes a few months or so to get used to the traffic.
Man up, driving is easy!
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Bah, driving's a piece of piss. You just gotta get used to it, muscle memory and whatnot. I tensed up when I first started too, I remember my drivers ed instructor had to use the chicken brake a couple of times.
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: adrug]
#7819302 - 01/01/08 08:46 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nah, around the time when all my friends were learning to drive, there was all fucked up family problems and my dad died. I'm was also a pretty sensitive guy at them (read: I was a bigger pussy who secreted much mental vagina blood: read: emotions)
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: adrug]
#7819310 - 01/01/08 08:49 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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My ex girlffriend used to freak out on the road sometimes. she was crazy I remember one time she just stopped in the middle of the highway and cried, then made me switch seats with her and start driving, lol.
Your fears are actually pretty grounded though, driving is an insanely dangerous activity, relatively, so don't feel too bad. Just jam out to some good tunes and relax though, it'll become like second nature in no time.
I have always loved driving even when we were stealing people's parents cars at like 10-12, well borrowing obviously, but yea. haha the first day at driving school the guys trying to tell me about the gas, break, where to put my hands. I wanted to say it's cool buddy, i've been doing this for 6 years.
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: adrug]
#7819324 - 01/01/08 08:58 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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adrug said: Didn't your parents bother to teach you how to drive?
I spent my teenage years in shelters
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Driving really does become automatic as you gain experience. All you have to do is know the traffic rules (what to do at 4-way stops, etc.) and know where your car is at all times. That's it.
What parts in particular are you having trouble with?
Quote:
Anyone can share god-awful learning experiences?
During my first road test everything was going well, and I was coming up to a familiar intersection where I had to turn on this weird 3-lane street. I was sure there were two northbound lanes and one southbound, and I turned into the middle lane. Unfortunately it was an oncoming lane and the instructor grabbed the wheel and steered it over to the right lane.
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Apollyphelion said: Did you learn from a school, self-taught, or parents/friends?
I had 2 neighbors that taught me to drive, one delivered pizza in a college town the other drove a race car. your problem is probably fear, fear tends to make people overly cautious in most situations, this annoys the people with you and around you and in turn makes you even worse. like the saying goes, you have to face your fears to overcome them. this will help you to gain confidence on the road
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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#7819380 - 01/01/08 09:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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some of those fears are retarded tho drivin round zipped out my mine i cant help the feelin im still alive
follow the person in front?!
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truffleupagus



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You're not alone Aprollyfelon lolz. Shit, I didn't get my license until I was 20. I suspect it could have been a lot sooner had I realized earlier that my mom was the better one to teach me, not my dad. But it is what it is.
Once you're driving for a while it really does become second nature though. K-turns are a piece of cake. Just practice parallel parking somewhere with not a lot of traffic. Then you can pass your road test and probably hardly ever have to do that shit again.
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Caribou_Lou
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Driving is so easy.. I don't understand how it's hard for you, 15 year old girls can drive no problem
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truffleupagus



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Re: How hard is it to drive? [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7819494 - 01/01/08 10:11 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Caribou_Lou said: Driving is so easy.. I don't understand how it's hard for you, 15 year old girls can drive no problem
Yeah, probably because they don't have much going on upstairs to distract them and they need a way to get to the mall.
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