It was a cold Sunday afternoon, the second Sunday of November. My sister Hannah (the girl in the last pic on my previous post) had just gotten her driver's permit and was dying to impress somebody with her driving skills. Being the second girl in our family to get her permit, she just knew that she would be a better driver than me, even though I've been driving for over four years, and she had never been behind the wheel of a car.
For some reason (we couldn't get
Rachel to tell us), Eric was coming over to talk with Dad. I think that was why it was so easy for me to convince Dad to let Hannah get some practice driving around the parking lot. After about 45 minutes, she was doing pretty good, so I convinced Dad to let us go out on the road. We had been out on the road for about 10 minutes, and she was doing pretty good and being very careful. Then we came to a place where the road teed into another, and I told Hannah to turn left. Very slowly, she started to make the turn, and realized that she was gonna have to give it some more gas to complete the turn. Somehow, she gave it way to much gas, and didn't turn the steering wheel hard enough! I tried to help, while hollering for her to hit the brake, but we crunched into a ditch, just a few feet away from a very high retainer wall! Talking about being scared!!! When the car stopped rocking, we put it into park, turned it off, and got out. The car had come to rest on three tires, with the back left tire up in the air above the road! It was then and there that I decided that being a driving instructor is not my calling in life! Lol!
I called Dad, and while he and Eric were on their way to come get us, it seemed like a hundred cars stopped and asked if we needed help! I don't why, because we were on a back street that isn't used a whole lot! And I hadn't brought my jacket because I hadn't planned on getting out, so I was freezing!
So when Dad and Eric got there, another man had stopped to help, and they chained the car to Eric's truck, and got ready to pull it out. Then the man got in my car and backed it right out without any help from the truck! Dad just laughed and said, "I can't believe you called me without even trying to back it out first!" Yeah, right! If I had backed it out, Dad would have said, "Why didn't you just wait until I got here to look at it?" Lol!
We later found out that we had interrupted a very important talk...
Rachel and Eric are getting married!
Hannah has been getting plenty of teasing about her driving skills, and she still hasn't gotten a chance to drive again. I will gladly let Dad take her out next time. (BTW, Rachel and Sarah just got their permits last week, so there's three girls learning to drive at one time!)
