Driver's Ed

For most people, their driver's education started around the age of 16. Some people have gone earlier and some later. Much later. I will be part of the "much later" group and let me tell you, I'm scared out of my wits.

I have always wanted to drive ever since I was a young girl. I used to ride the go-karts at different fairs and amusement parks and thought that it was nothing hard to do. Until one day when I was 12, I went to my hometown's state fair and I couldn't get the go-kart to go anywhere. That's when I decided that maybe driving wasn't for me after all.

This year, a lot of young people that I know have been to driver's ed and one (my co-worker) got a new car from her father. So I would tell my mother these stories and she believed that I was jealous of these young people because they knew how to drive and I don't. To be honest, I only know how to drive a little. I can go forward and do small turns but I really don't know too much about a car and my mother won't let me touch her car for nothing in this world.

So for my 22nd birthday, she wanted me to write down 3-4 gifts for her to get for me. I actually didn't want anything but some teeth whitening strips and I told her so. But my mother decided to take matters into her own hands. She did buy me the strips that I wanted and the next day, a raincoat came in for me. It looks like something out of a Pepto-Bismol bottle but whatever. She said that my last gift wouldn't be in until Wednesday. I was so stoked! I thought that she would have gotten me a prepaid phone that I saw in Wal-Mart. But that wasn't the "surprise"gift. What she bought me was driver's ed lessons. My heart stopped when she showed me the receipt.

Everything that I feared is about to come true. She has asked me before if I wanted lessons and I told her no. I meant it too. I'm not in a rush to learn how to drive. I don't have a car to drive and my mother doesn't really have this type of money to be spending on craziness like this. I really wanted to cry and the tears were trying to come out but I held them back. I am so fearful that I'll fail the driving part of it that it makes me crazy.

I know that I'm old to be getting lessons now but I really wanted to wait until I got out of college or something so I can truly enjoy it. Now I feel like things will go horribly wrong but I pray they don't.