When I got into the car this morning my main aim was to make sure that I could start today’s lesson of with the same skill that I had become accustomed to at the end of my lessons, after having warmed up so to speak. It appeared that this was a little to much to hope for and although no where near as shaky a start as last week, it was not at the standard I had hoped, however, it showed improvement. The focus of today’s lesson was to be the reversing backwards into a space on the side of the road that was no more that two car lengths long. I was a bit dubious as to how good I would be at this manoeuvre as I had next to no experience at reversing in a straight line, not to mention in a parking situation. Initially I found that I had the required spatially awareness to deal with it quite respectable and I found the first few attempts in an imaginary space fairly easy.
We soon moved on to trying to tackle some more challenging examples equating to this manoeuvre. Whilst in the process of trying to navigate backwards into this very tight space on a relatively small road we were confronted by an incredibly irritable man who had no patience and decided that he was not going to wait. So after forcing his way past whilst shouting at me out of the window we were finally ready to carry on with the manoeuvre, I came to the conclusion that he must have either really needed the toilet or he had just found out about his wife’s relations with the milkman. However, after this little run in the manoeuvre went down very smoothly and after it we were ready to go home and that concluded the lesson.