Riding Car Cars Lesson

I took on a new pupil who told me when she enquired about starting lessons that she had already had about 20 lessons. Great I thought someone had done the hard work. How wrong could I have been?

On the first lesson she came out with 2 young children, "Can they sit in the back?" she asked. After cheap driving lessons, finding a baby sitter I drove first asking her some questions on the way to give me an idea at what stage she had got to, but I soon realised that she hadn't had any lessons at all.

Eventually, it was her turn to sit in the driver's seat for cheap driving lessons since it was for women. First I asked her to adjust her seat and to press the clutch down. Her action to this request was to raise her right foot and press the clutch!

"Shall we start from the beginning?" I said. She didn't agree because she was a hgv driver and said she had got a migraine... not the only one I thought.

We were approaching a junction, where the main road bears sharply round to the left and a side road goes off ahead.

My pupil said to me, she remembered how nasty the junction was from the last time she went there. I agreed with her and reminded her about the overgrown Sharp Left Bend Ahead sign and faded road markings.

She slowed right down, and smoothly got 2nd gear, then went straight ahead! There just so happened to be another driving school car approaching the junction from the other direction. Needless to to say we both ended up using our duals!

After we moved off again with the auto in the CORRECT direction my pupil said: Oh I'm so sorry about that, I can't believe I did that, we were just talking about that as well weren't we?!

For anyone who knows Coventry we were on Woodshires Road travelling under the bridge towards Oban Road. Anyone else had a similar incident?!

I had been giving a lesson and incorporating the different types of pedestrian crossing to a lady pupil.

We had covered uncontrolled cheap driving lessons crossings and then the light controlled Puffin, Pelican and Toucan, including all the markings and signs etc associated with each type of crossing.

A short time after the cheap driving lessons, the last Pelican crossing we were coming to a bridge over a river and at the side of the road I saw an RSPCA man catching a swan which had landed on the bridge instead of the river.

I said to the pupil, 'look there is a swan on this bridge we are coming to'.

'Oh NO' she said, 'I have had all the pedestrian crossings I can cope with for one day'.