Ok so I have nearly been driving for one month. Yes I know you can’t believe it, trust me I can’t either. After reading my previous driving blogs I’m sure many believed that I one: wouldn’t survive my lessons on the road and two: definitely wouldn’t make it through the test. I guess the gods had mercy and looked upon my small Ford Fiesta with pity and smiled at the Santa Paula DMV on September the 1^st. Whatever the case, I miraculously past and now I have been unleashed on the roads of Ventura county. Watch Out.

Oxnard has already witnessed some of my skilled driving as I visited the local fish and chip shop and a supermarket known as Vons. Vons is a great supermarket but it’s car parks are a nightmare. Now I’m guessing you’re thinking “oh no what did she do?” No I did not run over anyone, or an animal or scratch a car. In fact a rather large red Chevy truck nearly hit me.

Some say dogs looks like their owners and I believe that sometimes someones car can represent the driver. Well in this case the blood-red truck could quite possibly indicate that the mood of the driver was possibly angry. Ok and maybe, just maybe, the red would have been obvious for me to see but no, it wasn’t. So as I pulled slowly over the stop sign  the Chevy truck pulls out very nearly crashing into me. In this instance God was not watching over me, maybe he had given up.

Luckily for me there is a skilled maneuver called an emergency brake so I stopped, then  I contently carried on quite happily as my phone number and insurance deal stayed safely in my hands. It was a near miss.