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[Mz iMac]

High School Driving School

My father who INVENTED road rage.

Because of the above, I & my ex hired AAA driving school instructor for our children even though they passed the HS Driving School test.

I did try to teach the oldest.  After surviving heart attacks & strokes from the driving the driving school instructor took over.

[Desertdi]

My dad had me drive I-90 from Chicago to Rockford and back. 

Yes, he was in the passenger seat.  That was it.

[deepwaterdotter]

@Desertdi I've driven that stretch many times as an experienced driver, it can be trecherous during rush hour.

[Shelbelle]

It was 1969 for me, went to one of our local Dept Stores, they had a driving school in their bldg, I hated every second of it in class and on the road training. 

[Mz iMac]

@Desertdi   You & I had the same father! 

Only mine had me drive from Pa to Va on Rt 13 & I-95 while he instructed screaming & hollering from the passenger seat.

I believe at that time I had my first "when I have kids.........." thought.

EDIT:  Changed seats.

[occasionalrain]

@Trinity11 

An award for parallel parking, impressive. People seem challenged just parking in the store pull-in spaces.

[kaydee50]

We didn't have driver's ed in my high school and my parents didn't own a car.  I learned from an instructor.  Didn't get much practice time and failed the first test.  Evenutally, I bought a car, practiced with my then boyfriend and another friend and passed the second time.  I was 24.  Except for a handful of trips on interstates I never liked driving and haven't for the past 10 years.  Quit when I was 66.

Don't missing driving or having  car--LOL!!

[beckyb1012]

Ours was offered through the school district as well but you did not have to take it during the school year as a class if you did not want to.  It was offered for six weeks each summer.  The two high schools in my town took turns on which school would be doing the program for all the students from both schools to attend. 

I had torn the ligaments out of my knee of my left leg doing a cheerleader jump and took my simulator class and the driving class with a full leg plaster cast.  I always lost points on the simulator when it was time to push down the emergency brake pedal on the left side.  I could never reach down fast enough with my hand to press it down since that leg was in a cast.  For the driving part when I was in the back seat with two other students my leg had to be propped up on the front seat console between the driver and the instructor.  I am sure they all enjoyed seeing my toes sticking out!!

[nambee]

My parents taught me once I got my permit when I turned 17.

I also took a driver's ed course offered by my HS that consisted of 6 hours of on the road training. The instructor was the boys' gym teacher. The car was a regular car without dual steering wheels and brake pedals. He must have had nerves of steel!! Probably helped that he was only 30 or so. The car was in a regular garage and we had to pull in and out of the garage bay for each lesson.  During the final lesson, he took me on a local highway to practice merging onto the highway and to get a feel for highway driving. He always referred to the turn signals as the "which-ways" - which I still remember with a chuckle to this day!

There was so much less traffic then, you could get a lot of experience without pressure. I can't imagine how kids learn nowadays in my area as the roads are so congested and drivers so agressive and rude. Must be nerve wracking!

Thanks for giving me a walk down memory lane today. Can't believe how long I've been driving!!

[occasionalrain]

I enjoy driving, but would avoid Manhattan.