.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

Yep, I passed my driving test this morning! Unsure how many people sell a house, buy another one and pass their driving test in the space of one week, but I did, and I can tell you it is mind boggling. I'm still rather all over the place!

And if you are still in shock because you had no idea this was going to happen, that's because I didn't tell anyone... decided to keep it to myself and focus on the task in hand. I would also like to point out that it was my FIRST TIME!

It went just fine, for those who like details. After about 5 minutes of driving, the 'lipreading mirror' fell off, which was quite funny... I pulled over a few minutes later, but neither me nor the examiner could stick the darn thing back on the windscreen. Eventually we gave up and the examiner told me she'd examined several other Deaf people without mirrors anyway, and nothing awful had happened.

Indeed, nothing awful happened to me either, until the end of the test, when I was asked to do the dreaded reverse park. I can't tell you how bad I am at reverse parking, seriously, despite practising about 700 times in the last week. True to form, I managed to drive backwards, then forwards, then backwards again, then forwards again, and then backwards again, miraculously landing between the white lines in the end. "That's IT, I've failed," I thought. So, when the examiner told me I had passed, I asked her if she was sure, and she kind of looked at me and said "what do you mean?!" as if I was clearly very weird indeed and she'd made a huge mistake.

Luckily, I managed to persuade her not to change her mind..!

;o)