A Week in Review - Mostly Driving

I try not to right about how the week has been in a whole but I may as well just give it a go this once. So here we go; I worked a lot, went to the pub, didn't get laid and went to sleep again. 


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OK, so I did a little more than that. For example yesterday I completed another driving lesson. For the first time the clutch control was good, did some emergency braking and some maneuvers. Long since are the days where if a child appears all of a sudden in front of you, and you know you will probably hit it, you slam on the brakes and pray that you only mildly injure...I mean that you don't hit it. Well chances are it was the kid who let down your tires last week and shot peas at your cat. No, now if lil Lucifer walks into the road you have to check all your mirrors then quickly start applying more braking break until the car starts to skid, or not if you  have ABS (yes, that's right, its now a fact that if you have bulging muscles your car won't skid). Making sure not to stall, then put the handbrake on and put the gear into neutral. After all that, you again have to check your mirrors, you get out and see how much damage a kid bouncing off your bonnet actually causes and then walk 50 feet back up the road to where a battered and broken Lucifer lays.

So emergency braking covered we moved onto a quiet road to do a three point turn for the first time. After being talked through it I was just about to start the maneuver when I noticed something. 100 feet up the road there was a learner performing an interesting insight into how to do reverse parallel parking and 100 feet behind there was another reversing left round the corner. With me in the middle doing a three point turn it could have looked like an Olympic sport in practice for London 2012 games next year; Synchronized Learner  Maneuvers. To be honest, that might actually happen because everyone in Britain thinks the Games next year are going to be a bit of let down even if they do well. A learner driving onto the running track and then trying to do a three point turn to get out again probably wouldn't raise to many surprised eyebrows.

Finally, we decided to try and do a left hand corner reverse maneuver so we went on search for an eligible junction. I kid you not, I was driving for 15 minutes before we eventually found the only learner-driver-free-corner in the UK. But unfortunately half way through the process we had to abort because a learner driver appeared at the road I was reversing in to and wanted to turn left. Bloody learner drivers... . The people of this country are always talking about teenagers hanging around on street corners. Well now they're doing it in cars with older people. OK, that doesn't sound quite how I meant it but you can all blame yourselves for having dirty minds.

It would be wrong of me, somehow, to not mention the death of one of the greatest innovators and business leaders of the past 50 years; Steve Jobs. The former co-founder and, until August, CEO of Apple died yesterday at the age of only 56 after suffering from cancer for 8 years. The world will sorely miss Steve Jobs, even those who aren't particular fans of Apple. Without him the Macintosh all-in-one computer would exist which has saved many market analysts' jobs and upper working class families try to progress to full on middle class. More importantly, for me, we wouldn't have the iPod, which for me would be the invention of the decade, especially my 4th gen purple nano. Simple, small, sexy, long lasting and does exactly what you want. Rest in peace Steve, enjoy chatting with god, there's an app for that you know.