Second lesson

I popped out of work lunchtime to go for another drive with Sean. He'd had his car tuned a bit and it was working beautifully today, and we took a drive around the area where the road test is going to happen. I'm doing pretty well - I think I'm a safe driver and all, but I'm still worried about the little details.

Few things I'm afraid of: firstly speeding - it's not like I've got need for speed, but as most drivers I'm used to driving with the traffic and yes, the clock probably shows a bit over... which is of course a huge no-no in a test, I believe that would be a straight out fail. Normally the speed limit is 50 km/h, but the test area is littered with schools and parks that have a 30 km/h limit, and I'll just have to remember that and that's it. Secondly, I can't get past the idea that red light doesn't mean "don't go" here - it means "don't go except if you want to turn right". I just feel like I'm doing something naughty and dangerous when I drive on the red light, but I'll be expected to do that (anyway) in the test. Third one are the slightly different traffic signs - with this I might be just paranoid as they're mostly not that different, but it's just one more thing to make me a bit nervous.

Oh well, I'll be so busy before the test that I'll probably have no time to worry about it.

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