‘Clutch is your friend’ – for an amateur stick shift driver (first week of driving to office), that is a good advice. Whenever in doubt, press the clutch – comes to use for me often, gives me a moment to think which gear to use and what to do.
Another good advice was to ‘just take the car and drive, don’t think it will take a month of observation before you start’ – if you are by someone’s side, you will always be wondering how they manage to drive without getting hit or hitting someone, but if you are in that seat, you will figure it out. Of course it is only after some driving classes and 5+ years of driving automatic gear, but I wouldn’t have ventured out so soon if it weren’t for that advice.
Third advice was a story that someone thought everybody was driving like they were mad and drunk, so he also drove like mad and drunk and it all worked out at the end. I don’t intend to drive like mad or drunk, but it helped to figure out that expect no courtesy and if you are too courteous, you will be late to office.
I remember some people solely because of some of these nuggets. Like a friend who said only one thing after our daughter was born – he said ‘remember always that you are not the first parents in this world and your case is probably not going to be unique’. Came to use in numerous situations when we panic for silliest of reasons or get stressed out due to lack of sleep..
Another good advice was to ‘just take the car and drive, don’t think it will take a month of observation before you start’ – if you are by someone’s side, you will always be wondering how they manage to drive without getting hit or hitting someone, but if you are in that seat, you will figure it out. Of course it is only after some driving classes and 5+ years of driving automatic gear, but I wouldn’t have ventured out so soon if it weren’t for that advice.
Third advice was a story that someone thought everybody was driving like they were mad and drunk, so he also drove like mad and drunk and it all worked out at the end. I don’t intend to drive like mad or drunk, but it helped to figure out that expect no courtesy and if you are too courteous, you will be late to office.
I remember some people solely because of some of these nuggets. Like a friend who said only one thing after our daughter was born – he said ‘remember always that you are not the first parents in this world and your case is probably not going to be unique’. Came to use in numerous situations when we panic for silliest of reasons or get stressed out due to lack of sleep..
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