Why I don't want to drive yet?
Hello guys! How are you all today? It is Monday, and well it is another busy day. As for me, I started my day doing my youngest son performance task for one of his subject. After finishing it, the next task I did was to prepare our lunch and at the same time doing the laundry. I needed to do it because tomorrow we'll be out again to celebrate our 10th year anniversary. During lunch time, my son's adviser asked for the baptismal certificate of those Catholic students who will receive their first holy communion to be pass on at the school. And so I went to school to pass it and I let my husband fetch me after. I continued doing my laundry and at exactly 5 pm we went out again to meet the dentist. One of my front teeth needs some restoration and my husband is scheduled for cleaning. After Ate Bebe the dentist is done with restoring my teeth, she asked me then, why until now I haven't learned how to drive. I just looked at her and smile. She told me, that I needed it so that whenever my husband is away, it wouldn't be harder for us to go to places we wanted to. Again I refuse her comment and change the topic instead, until it was my husband's turn to seat at the dentist chair.
There's actually reasons, why I don't want to drive yet. Firstly is that I still don't have enough courage to be on the road. With all honesty, thinking of driving alone in a busy road like here in the city make me nervous already. We got our car back in 2016. It is an old model Toyota Corolla that we got for only 70k. A relative recommended it, and I guess it was a good deal because even though it is a 1995 model everything is working fine. We couldn't afford a brand new one because we are still paying our monthly house amortization. Aside from it is an old model, it is also a manual car. Driving a manual car is very much complicated than driving an automatic car. I don't know how to explain it technically but driving an automatic car is less hassle. Back in 2016, my husband used to teach me, eventually he gives up, telling me that if he has enough money, he will buy me an automatic car. Hahaha! Well, I can actually drive it, but then, I am a little forgetful that sometimes I forgot to change the gears every now and then.
My second reason is that I easily got distracted most specially when I am on the road. Anthony said that when driving you have to focus and attentive because accidents can happen in a seconds. I have seen a lot of road accidents for many years and I can't help but to feel sympathy for them. I might not know what to do if in case I am driving and then I see an accident in front of me. I might panic and maybe cause another collision. One thing that my husband is always telling me that whatever happened while you are on the road is to never panic. Andwae! Hahaha! So yeah I think I need to work harder on that in order for me to drive.
Last but not the least is that I am a sleepyhead person. Whenever I am on travel, I don't forget to take a nap or maybe because the cool breeze of aircon in front of me makes me sleepy. Before I can't sleep when my husband is driving because sometimes he drives so fast that I have to remind him everytime. But now, I can always sleep even though he is driving fast, like I don't care anymore. They said that being sleepy might cause accident while driving so I wish I could change this attitude as well.
My Ending Thoughts
I know the things I have mentioned above was just a mere alibis. I always believe if there's a will there's a way. In my case if there's a wheels, I should find my way to drive it. Hahaha! I know, I should have to gather enough courage, be able to stay focus on the road and lastly fight my sleepyness. If I would be able to overcome these three, then I am a step forward to drive along the road.
That is for today's article. Thank you for always coming by at my post. You were all highly appreciated.
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Same tayo sis, takot ako magdrive kasi kung saan-saan sumusulpot yung mga nagmomotor. Sabi ko nga sa inlaws ko pag nagdrive ako may megaphone dapat para alam ng lahat if pipreno ako or liliko hehehe..