ladidaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa oy my head hurts. hm. *yawns* so...how tall are you then deadlock?

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Lol Deadlock! That pic is just too cute! XD

Are you a lot taller than her?

About 5'10 ... I always thought I was 5'8 but apparently have been growing so slowly over the years that I never noticed it ...

For a tiny woman she's got a hell of a temper, so never anger my mother Fiery! lol

Maybe short people have really bad tempers. After reading your mum was 4'9 I went and asked my 29? year old sister about her height. I asked "How short are you?" first I got elbowed in the ribs, then I was glared at and finally I was told she was 4'11. How nice. My 11 year old niece is sensitive about her height too, call her short and she'll beat you up

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I'll bring a box for her to stand on :)

Seriously random... but I have my first driving lesson in an hour. Meep. Haha.

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SarahNarya - YAY!

So how did it go? :P

I can't drive due to the epilepsy. But I'd love to. I got my provisional licence, and was looking for a driving instructor just before I got diagnosed, lol. That was a good 4 years ago now.

Stay clear of AJ.. she takes driving lessons at the moment and is loving it. Probably speeding too :P

Hmm.. it was interesting. I was very surprised in how much I actually did in a first lesson, especially considering I've never even had a go in a car before. I was on the roads for pretty much the whole hour and a half. She kept saying 'Excellent' so I'm hoping I did ok. She said people don't normally start changing gears in their first lesson, but I did, and that was quite impressive. But I don't know whether she was just saying that to make me feel better. It was a strange experience, but I think I'm going to like it.

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SarahNarya - YAY!

:O Wanna know what happened in my first lesson? I drove in a straight line for about 10 metres tops. That was it! My driving instructor drove me to some practice area, spoke to me about how to control a car for ages and made me familiar with the inside and stuff. She drove me to and from this practice area for a good 7 lessons or so before I was allowed to drive home. At first I thought it was a total rip off and my driving instructor was a dimbat but now I see why she did what she did.

I'm actually a very good driver but my sister and dad refuse to take me out in their cars for practice. I tell my dad what I do each each lesson and he reckons the pace I'm learning at is very fast (in comparison to my sisters).

Something I've noticed is that pupils who start driving straight away drive like snails, don't know what to do on roundabouts and make everyone else late! I'm glad I'm not that kind of person. That said, it really bugs me when other drivers on the road think "Oh look, a learner, they must be slow so I'm gonna over take" The number of times people have tried to over take me just because I'm in a learner car is incredible! There was this one time I almost made someone crash... twice because he thought I was a slow driver. Maybe that'll teach 'em ;)

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Now I'm thinking back on it though... I think I was pretty pants haha. And I kind of wish she'd started me off on a car park, because it scared me being on the road so soon and I'd rather at least be comfortable with starting and stopping before I'm let loose with other drivers. And I've got this two week gap between lessons so I'm probably going to have forgotten everything anyway. But I'm so not going to be a really ridiculously slow person I hope... if I turn out like that I think I'd rather quit driving. Not that I want to drive too fast, but I don't want to be someone that's always far lower than the speed limit. It annoys me enough as a passenger when I'm behind someone like that.

That being said though, my tutor is quite a slow driver and whilst she was driving me back someone overtook her. Bet they thought she was the learner .

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SarahNarya - YAY!

Haha, that's funny!

I really wanna kick learner drivers who do 20 on 40mh roads. Was stuck behind two on the same stretch of road whilst taking my niece to school and coming back.

Have you noticed on some 40mph roads it says "SLOW" after every 50 yards or so? How can you go slow if the speed limit is 40?! Makes no sense lol.

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