I was pushed to get my drivers license at 14. My mom didn't drive. My dad worked away from home so was only home two weekends a month. My brother left home when I was 13. So it fell to me to be the driver in the family. At that time in TX, you could take driver's ed at 14. I had a horrible teacher who was the football coach. He gave us the wrong answer for one question on our written so none of us got 100% on it. I got to drive one time through town. The only other practice we got was driving around the parking area of the football field. Was behind the wheel about 15 hours total before the test. I couldn't parallel park for anything so failed the test twice. We had a huge car to test in so that didn't help. My friend's dad was the other teacher. He helped me and let me use the smaller car from his class so I passed. I got my license a month before my fifteen birthday. I was way too young to be driving.
When my youngest son took driver's ed and got his beginner license, I made him drive everywhere we went. He passed the first time. His dad once told me that the son drove just like me. He didn't mean it like a compliment believe me. LOL.
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Date: 2009-05-08 04:00 pm (UTC)I was pushed to get my drivers license at 14. My mom didn't drive. My dad worked away from home so was only home two weekends a month. My brother left home when I was 13. So it fell to me to be the driver in the family. At that time in TX, you could take driver's ed at 14. I had a horrible teacher who was the football coach. He gave us the wrong answer for one question on our written so none of us got 100% on it. I got to drive one time through town. The only other practice we got was driving around the parking area of the football field. Was behind the wheel about 15 hours total before the test. I couldn't parallel park for anything so failed the test twice. We had a huge car to test in so that didn't help. My friend's dad was the other teacher. He helped me and let me use the smaller car from his class so I passed. I got my license a month before my fifteen birthday. I was way too young to be driving.
When my youngest son took driver's ed and got his beginner license, I made him drive everywhere we went. He passed the first time. His dad once told me that the son drove just like me. He didn't mean it like a compliment believe me. LOL.