Tried out driving a car for the first time today. As I expected, it was TERRIFYING.
On the bright side – I didn’t crash, and nobody died!
As expected, I am terrible with gears and too nervous to do things like reversing or moving in anything that isn’t a straight line. I also learned that the accelerator is way more sensitive than I expected, and getting your feet on the pedals correctly is weirdly complicated. Managed to stall once or twice, and got the ‘kangaroo petrol’ shuddering effect when I panicked and took my feet off everything at once, slammed the brake an awful lot because I haven’t yet figured out that ‘going into neutral and stopping’ business.
Having decided that curbs are full of dynamite and will kill me if I get too close, I resolutely refused to go near them and ended my lesson pulled into a lay-by refusing to try to turn. Then other half Dave took to the wheel and soundly showed me up with going round in circles, turning, and even reversing! Changing gears! Feh. Men.
Got a bunch of stock back today as well, some a little worse for wear (and therefore unsaleable) which I’m not pleased about, but there’s still a lot of things I’m excited about. Mostly, gold tasseled bookmarks! I love bookmarks. And these ones have tassels! And gold bits! Even gold foil embossing! They should go up in the shop soon after I change a few things around.
Right now, though, I’m off to finish a mug of tea and split my time between editing ‘Saint’ and working on an SVQ I’m doing with work. Hope all of you guys are doing good. <3