Did you learn to drive when you were a teenager? Who taught you? If at school, what kind of driver’s ed was it? If a friend or parent, where did you go to learn? What was the worse part about learning to drive?
I learned a very valuable lesson when I was being taught by my dad to drive…….NEVER TEACH YOUR CHILD TO DRIVE OR SWIM!!
Where I grew up there were tons of country roads that my dad would take me to learn to drive. I learned to drive a stick shift and didn’t have that much trouble after I got going, it was starting off in 1st gear on a hill!!!!! Those of you who learned with a clutch and shift know what I mean. My dad not having much patience, remember he is a 20 year Navy veteran and wanted everything to run like a clock, and me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. It didn’t take long before I decided to take Driver’s Ed at school and my excuse was that it would make our car insurance cheaper. Thank goodness that worked. And, oh by the way, the Driver’s Ed teacher was a hunk!!! So, I was happy and my parents were happy, but for different reasons.
I do remember on one of my lessons with my dad that we had taken our little poodle with us. He loved to ride in the car. Anyway, we had to stop to let him do his business and when we got back in the car, for some reason we forgot about him. I started up the car and slowly started pulling away when my dad started yelling, “STOP, STOP, PEPE IS RUNNING TO CATCH US!!” To this day we get a big laugh at that poor little dog running his legs off to try and catch us.
And now, almost 36 years later, I HATE TO DRIVE AND WISH I HAD A CHAUFFEUR and at 16 I couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of a car.

This isn’t the actual car we had and that I learned to drive, but its the same kind and I wish I still had today. What a cool car it was!
The VW Karmann Ghia
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