First Experience Driving

Don't really remember. I know I was driving a 2000 Honda Civic. It was a nice car. Nothing particularly memorable though. I didn't nearly hit anything. I'm guessing I drove up and down my street when I was 15.

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I remember backing into someones garbage bins when I was learning to drive, I thought it was pretty funny, probably because my driving instructor almost shit his pants. I TOLD HIM THERE WERE BINS BEHIND US, but nooo, keep reversing anyway! Not too long after getting my license, I was nearly wiped out by a bus. That was also kinda funny, but in the horrifying you almost died kind of way. That was like what, six years ago or something. I've never driven since. It's probably for the best!

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I remember on like week 2 of In Class our instructor had us get in a car that day and drive a big oval. I remember I got in all NASCAR-style and put one foot on the brake and one on the gas and attempted to drive like that. I remember nearly sending the car off of the upper level of our school's parking lot before he told me to exit the car. The actual In Car Sessions went much smoother other than his countless tauntings of, "Have you been drinking that liquor, boy?"

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I think I was around 12 or 13 when I first drove a car. My mother is a fucking crazy lunatic and let me drive her van at the time in an empty parking lot in Westboro. It was an automatic, and I remember being amazed at how EASY it was to drive.

On the weekends when I would visit her, she'd usually let me go driving around those lots as an activity. I learned how to drive really early on and got accustomed to being at the helm way before my years. I didn't get my actual license until I was 18. And Pang was there when I did get it. (Which is something that amazes me even today.)

I never took driver's ed. It doesn't seem to help anyone in our area, except in the insurance way.

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My first driving experience was my first driving lesson some months before... I still must have some lessons before getting tested for my driver's license...
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While nothing exciting happened when I was learning to drive a car (either automatic or later a manual) but I do remember having fun trying to learn a manual school bus. Yes, I have had some lessons on how to drive the big old school bus. Believe me when I tell you this...driving those things in reverse is a royal pain in the ass. Luckily, the building's walls were made out of sheetrock and I wasn't going very fast.

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I remember that my first driving experience was in Drivers ED. It was interesting but the guy was a prick.

I caught onto driving quite easily due to the racing games I play in first person. Now I want outta first person view, Too disorienting.

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I ended up being the best driver in my family....after I was done being the worst learner. The first time I ever drove, I turned a corner, and, uh...never stopped turning. I ended up turning right into a ditch at a church, and my dad and I had fun getting it out of there. -_-;; Took me a good month before I could drive like a decent human being.

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i remember my first experience driving like it was almost 15 years ago....wait it was. I was trying to concentrate and all I could hear was my dad screaming at me.

"Keep the car in the right lane! Don't go so fast! What the hell are you stupid! Pull over now! No not here. Damnit!"

From what I hear though I had a much better experience than what happened when he tried to teach my older sister to drive. Old people are so cranky.

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First day I had my permit, I drove my dad's 1981 Silverado standard down the main highway..... Was prtty scarry! The clutch was very tricky. I stalled out many times....

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Ah, i remember the first couple times I drove. I had a tendency to not use the brakes because I thought the car would slow down if I let go of the clutch and willed the damn car to stop. Hahaha, I think I freaked the instructor a whole lot. He'd step on the brakes for me, instead. It's fun, though, learning to drive, testing the patience of the drivers around you. I'm just glad I was able to get hanging and parallel parking the first try.

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The first time I went driving, my parents (first mistake: my mother was in the car) took me out in the country in our old '98 Mercury Villager van. I got in the driver's seat and proceeded to cross my arms turning the steering wheel and plowed into a cornfield, while my mom was screaming in the backseat.



They didn't take me driving for a few months after that.

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The first time I drove.. I kept thinking I would step too hard on the accel pedal and the car go flying...........
But then driving isn't hard at all...

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All I remember the first time I drove is my mother screaming "YOUR GOING TO *BLEEP* KILL US ALL!" The j"OYs" of having a learner's permit. The another time in a parking lot I freaked out and thought the car was messed up. I kept hitting my foot on the brake, my mother finally realized this and told me. :\ But those were my first times legally driving.
When I was about two or three yrs old my mom got out of the car for a minute with my baby brother in the backseat. I somehow thought I could drive the car, took it out of park and rolled it into a ditch. That was the LAST time she ever got out the car with me in there by myself for even a second.

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Originally Posted by Mercury Blue

All I remember the first time I drove is my mother screaming "YOUR GOING TO *BLEEP* KILL US ALL!" The j"OYs" of having a learner's permit. The another time in a parking lot I freaked out and thought the car was messed up. I kept hitting my foot on the brake, my mother finally realized this and told me. :\ But those were my first times legally driving.
When I was about two or three yrs old my mom got out of the car for a minute with my baby brother in the backseat. I somehow thought I could drive the car, took it out of park and rolled it into a ditch. That was the LAST time she ever got out the car with me in there by myself for even a second.

I like that story about being a toddler and driving

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I think the first time I drove was when I was 16. My sister just suddenly decided to let me drive. I was terrible, and I almost hit my dad's car. The second time though was much better. We were on vacation and we were on a resort village or whatever the hell you call them. It was great.

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My first time driving a car was pretty average I guess. Was in my mother's 03 Mustang GT. I did alright, I suppose. I was like 15.

First time on a motorcycle (my primary transport atm) was much different. It was my friend's bike, and I had no idea how the thing worked at all, but I was interested in giving it a shot so dammit, I did. I get on, and try to start it. Doesn't start. I pull in the clutch and hit the ignition and the engine comes to life. So, after learning that in order to move I have to bring the thing out of neutral and into first gear, I immediately stall it out (taking my hand off the clutch of course). After about ten minutes of messing around with what was at the time a new concept to me (I had never driven a standard shift in a car) I finally began to inch forward. The bike stuttered a little bit but I made my way down the road (in a subdivision, mind you). Unfortunately, I found myself coming up to a turn so I did what was natural to me: turned the handle bars. My direction didn't really change. My friend is running after me telling me I have to lean. I shift my body weight a little in the direction I want to go and voila, I'm turning! Hurrah! Relieved, I make my way back to my friend, having had enough of motorcycle riding. I near him, hit the brakes and (due to my height [like 5'3" on a crotch rocket]) sort of just lay the bike over.

Luckily it was an old bike.

I actually swore off motorcycle riding for a while, saying it wasn't for me. But I ended up giving in a couple months later and decided I wanted to learn for real. It took a while, but I'm a good rider now.

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My first time driving involved a restored WWII jeep, steep hill and a lumpy field. I was there as part of a group of other guys fishing/hunting/etc.. and our host took a liking to us. Next thing you know he brings out the jeep, teaches us how to drive stick (some of us didn't get it, which led to some funny moments) and off we went.

I did pretty well going down the hill and turning, but he had me go back up via the hill and almost succeeded in launching everyone out of the jeep. Ah, good times.

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First driving experience would have to be during my first driving lesson with the instructor (Well my parents wouldn't allow me to touch the car before that). I was 17 then. Nothing much happened besides the car dying a few times (tried balancing) and I jumped at every chance to drive after I got my P. Now I'm driving those heavy Volvo tanks once in a while, and back to my own small little car during school days.

I must admit, sitting in my sister's car was far more dangerous. She didn't know how to brake most of the time and she scratched the car's bottom several times.

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My first driving experience is nothing really special, driving around in a parking lot by the ocean.

However, I do have an interesting story about driving, it happened earlier today actually.

There are these tunnels I drive through every day, they take me through the mountain range that separates the island of 'Oahu in half (I live in Hawaii). Anyway, I was eating a mint. Not a particularly good mint. In fact, these mints are so weak that half way through, they pretty much lose all flavor, so I usually just chuck them out the window.

As I'm driving through the tunnel, I roll down the window and proceed to flick said mint off my finger. It sticks, and I keep trying to get it off. Suddenly, there's a thump, and my car is tilting. I had accidentally driven up onto the sidewalk/walkway that runs through the tunnel. I turn the car back onto the road and manage not to crash into anything else, but it was amazingly scary. I'm sure the driver behind me thought I was on ice or something.

Anyway, yeah. This is especially embarrassing because while I've been driving since I was 15 and a half, although I only recently got around to getting my actual license (I just turned 20 last month).

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