Driving woes again

first driving lesson after traumatic monday and, it rained- nice and heavy. unfortunately, only at the start and end of the lesson. still i made even more mistakes than i did during the test. i knocked down the inner pole during parallel parking THREE times. i think theres something psychological about it.

or maybe i was just too irritated with alex tan to drive properly. i figure bbdc instructors can be categorized into those who care more about safety, those who care more about skill, those who care about both, and those who dont care at all. alex tan, like ng hl, belongs to the last category. (hau kw is the first, ronald siew the second and chan hy the third.) instructors who belong to the last category often have something else in common: which is they exaggerate the mistakes you make in terms of their reaction, but do nothing to make you improve. they also have a penchant for keeping things really quiet in the car even when things go wrong.

i neither see nor appreciate the value in keeping quiet when things go wrong. everyone else, even sim kh, ensures you improve thereafter. alex tan on the other hand, either has no clue how to make me improve or simply cannot be bothered to communicate it. (i think its the former.)

met chan hy right after i came out of the car. when i first said hi i realised he forgot that my test date was monday and that if he was right, i wouldn't be there and then saying hi to him, so i told him i failed my test. as expected, i got that jaw-dropping 'what happened??' reaction, which changed to that 'what a waste' reaction when i told him i knocked a pole down during parallel parking.

just how much will i pay to not get alex tan again? the amount required to be under that fixed instructor scheme. unfortunately i forgot to quiz the counter about it today. my only fear is that they're all changing groups and chan hy and hau kw may not be in the same group.



Original entry here.