So fortunately for my Dad I have now successfully began to drive like a legal driver. Yes you did hear me correctly I can drive and I have even passed the stalling stage.
Don’t get me wrong I still have my problems and I lack a bit of control, but otherwise it is going good. I have days when I do brilliantly but there are others when I just have to ruin the clean record and do something wrong.
On Saturday I had an early start for my SAT. I woke up got changed quickly and thought it may have been a good idea to drive to school, half asleep. The consequences of this bad decision were that I nearly reversed into a tree, I pulled off the road into some pot holes and I drove a bit too fast around some sharp corners. The main thing is I survived and so did my car. But for my pride’s sake lets just blame all these mistakes on the early morning and my lack of knowledge on how to demist my car. This experience may sound slightly dreadful but we have to look at the positives in the situation, I stalled once.
Those who have read my driving blogs in the past probably will not be assured that I can now drive but i’m sure you can all say that I have progressed significantly. Ok, granted I have only been practicing in the back roads of Ojai but still I haven’t crashed nor stalled nearly as many times as before. So it’s out to the main roads of Ojai this week. All I can say is watch out Ojai Avenue.
OVS Journalism Blog 
I have been driving, well, for a long time now. My mother recently told a story (one deeply buried in my memory, which is where I would have preferred to have left it) of how I ran over a small tree in an open desert in a dune buggy at age 14, then followed that by off-road crashing a Jeep on a large rock at age 15, then backed her truck into a horse corral at age 16, and then, upon earning my license, rear-ended (wait for it….) a tow truck on Ojai Avenue en route to school one morning also at age 16. Suffice to say my early driving experiences were rocky. But we learn from our mistakes and grow as drivers with experience behind the wheel. I have been accident free now for decades (seriously) and have a perfect driving record with no tickets, although I did nearly run a colleague off the road to school this morning. It helps that I now drive a formidable 2-ton British SUV that climbs over rocks and trees. Perhaps I am avenging my early driving mishaps. Or maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of “Top Gear,” one of my favorite TV shows. I have Stig envy.
Top Gear is the greatest show ever period. The Stig is my hero and Jeremy Clarkson is the funniest man on the planet! “Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve… all we know is, he’s called the Stig. “
I love this story “Ojai Blondie” I can definitely see myself doing some similar stunts. In some ways I am more fortunate than you because my mum can not tell anyone my tragic stories as she is just as terrible as I am (yes still, after 30years of driving).