*pleased with self*
Jul. 7th, 2009 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricI did a reverse park, backwards up a hill! In S's car, which I've only driven once, and that once being one of the only two times I've driven in six months. It's auto and has power steering, and is therefore insanely over-responsive by my standards. I can wrestle our little manual no-power-steering hatch into all kinds of places, but it is done slowly and carefully and with much elbow-grease. This car wanted to LEAP backwards into the spot, or possibly the curb or one of the nearby cars.
I did not hit any of these things.
Roads in Canberra are bloody weird.
I sorta miss driving. Not... really. But I miss being competent at it. I can do reverse parks and hill starts and tight u-turns, and I can do them because I spent years learning how. Not because I'm innately good at driving, I'm not. I don't even like it. But I learnt it and became competent because I had to, and I miss being able to drive places and feel pleased with myself for being able to drive there.
I did not hit any of these things.
Roads in Canberra are bloody weird.
I sorta miss driving. Not... really. But I miss being competent at it. I can do reverse parks and hill starts and tight u-turns, and I can do them because I spent years learning how. Not because I'm innately good at driving, I'm not. I don't even like it. But I learnt it and became competent because I had to, and I miss being able to drive places and feel pleased with myself for being able to drive there.