Teaching the Youngest to Drive: An Incomplete List
Driving school lessons completed: 6
Vehicle: manual transmission (stick shift), dual control
Driving school lessons remaining: 4
Vehicle: manual, dual control
Driving lessons with father (alone): 3
Vehicle: automatic transmission and manual transmission (lol, guess who likes to live dangerously)
Driving lessons with mother (alone): enough to sprout more grey hairs on mother’s head
Vehicle: are you bananas? I’m not taking him in a manual till he can safely control a vehicle. Automatic transmission
Other vehicles hit: 0
Pedestrians hit: 0
Cyclists hit: 0
Wide turns taken: <sigh>
Bunny hops: less than I’d bargained for
Stalled vehicle (in traffic): 2
Vehicle: it would really be something if he stalled an automatic in traffic! Manual transmission
Stalled vehicle (in driveway): <whimper>
Vehicle: still a manual
Emergency hand-braking: 1, and okay, that might have been a slight overreaction, but come ON, the kid had driven the car maybe three times
Vehicle: automatic transmission
Times wallet (containing driver’s license) forgotten at home: 1
Times older brother had to drop wallet (and other forgotten items) at school: 1
Times driven with whole family (including dog): 2
Vehicle: automatic transmission
Times driven with mother and older brother:
“I’m a much better driver than you were when you were learning”
“Yeah right! As if! You’re crap. Amma?”
“Don’t drag me into your sibling rivalry!”
Keep an eye out for us on the road, I’m the one gesticulating furiously and pumping my leg on the imaginary brake.
Written for YeahWrite’s Nonfiction Challenge #356. Click the badge to follow the link and read more entries!
Asha Rajan 
This is me in two years (AGAIN). I’m 6 years past the first one. I love the way you structured this!
My favorite thing about your writing is that I always feel like I’m there with you. Not sure that’s so positive this time. 🙂 Good luck and stay safe!
Ha ha, this was hilarious and also a tad worrying. The structure of this piece was incredible!
I really enjoyed the way you told this story. It was an engaging structure.
The only line which jarred with me was ‘“Don’t drag me into your sibling rivalry!”’. I thought the phrase sibling rivalry was too telling and also obvious that was what was going on.
Well done on earning those grey hairs!