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For anyone who's a new driver, or who's been driving for a while for that matter, does driving ever freak you out? I've been driving for a few months, but I drive a lot because we live in the middle of nowhere, and I've had one near-miss in that time, and it completely freaked me out. Mainly because it was my fault, and it shook me up, but it made me realise how much expensive damage I could do :nervous: I also managed to curb my car today, which took a chunk out of the tyre and so I need to buy a new one. It's difficult to explain, but I sometimes feel as if driving a car is too much responsibility for me. I've got a fairly good car too, and I'm so worried about damaging it. Does anyone else feel like this? Or is it just because I'm new to driving? I probably just need more confidence.
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like sometimes driving up over the backroads and im goin up one side of this little country lane in my wee motor and theres a big fuck off lorry bombing down the road on the other side and i'll get a shiver up my spine just thinking of what could happen he was to lose control and swerve into me or something :nervous:
but the majority of the time id be your cocky over confident driver .. like a lot of males tend to be
I'd be more confident if I had a better car I reckon. Slow drivers piss me off and I just want a car I can floor and over take within 3 seconds rather than about 10 and risk a lorry coming head on towards me.
I've had a few hairy moments, but I've had a lot more that wern't my fault! Don't worry about it - learn from your mistakes and move on.
(Did you hit the curb parking? Don't worry about that - parking is the devil. I broke all the wheel trims in my fiesta, I'm worried about my new ka - argh. If you hit it going fast hmm thats not so good, but again its not the end of the world!)
Nah, those near misses teach you a lot. Like it or not, most of us will experience some sort of bump at some point, mostly minor. You just have to keep going and remember to concentrate whilst driving and try not to become complacent. In my opinion most accidents are caused by lack of concentration or agressive driving.
Don't we all
I took my second ever driving lesson on pills! That was freaky! :nervous:
No I'm not as stupid as it sounds lol, there is a story behind why it happened!
ROFL you nutter, did you pass?
I have freaked out a few times. The biggest freaking outs I have had though have mainly been due to the floods. I had to drive through one huge flood and then I got stuck in mad traffic that night too.
I also had a really arsey driver who cut me up. I *did* cut him up by accident and apologised, but he decided to then drive in front of me, make me brake and slow down to less than 10 miles an hour. He kept speeding up and slowing down, making rude gestures with his kids in the back seat. Cos he's never made an error while driving :yeees:
Why do they do that!!! Its so obvious its going to put the learner off even more and probably stall again!
I shat myself today when someone coming the other way on a single-carriageway road started to overtake a tractor just as I approached at 65mph. Half-knackered a new pair of boots avoiding the cunt, too, I'm not impressed.
Stalling the car? Done that countless times at junctions. It's usually caused by a "let's get out of here quickly" mentality. It's a busy junction, you have to get out quickly before you lose your chance and get stuck in yet more traffic. In the process, you panic and stall. As I'm discovering, all you have to do is plan ahead as much as you can, and don't approach junctions too quickly!
I know! It's not like it wasn't obvious - because he was born with his licence! :rolleyes:
My instructors response and getting through the lights and making him wait made up for it though, we drove off laughing!
I passed my driving test 6yrs ago yesterday. I feel old(at 23!!!)
how did you manage that then