Milestones
January 4, 2014
Who’s driven? This guy.
Turning 15 1/2 on Christmas Eve meant Christmas vacation had a ready theme and an absolute objective: get a learner’s permit and get behind the wheel of the family car.
So, with no time to lose, he found and enrolled in an online course, raced through the curriculum in two days and passed the test. When his certificate of completion arrived a few days later, he dragged me to the DMV to take the California state driver’s test, and passed that. As soon as we got home (yesterday), we began the search for a local driving school that had a 2-hr slot available on Saturday (today). Logging those two hours was the last hoop to jump through; now he can drive our car on the mean streets of Davis (and beyond)… as long as one of us is in the car. Mission accomplished with one day to spare.
Now our mutual goal is to get as many hours behind the wheel as is humanly possible. He’s clamoring to drive everywhere, and we are eager for him to build competence. Driving at this point is a win win.
It is required that all new drivers be gawky teens with pimples and braces. Darling too.
Here’s ours:
Now who’s driven?
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