anyway I'm gonna vent about a shitty thing that happened to me, although I know a few of you would've already seen the post on Tumblr
SO THIS SUMMER I HAD DRIVING LESSONS. we had to finish it up before the end of August cuz we had the in-class part of the lessons at the end of last August and it only lasts a year before the subscription expires and you have to pay for all of it all over again.
but like holy shit, the first two lessons I had with my instructor were pretty brutal, cuz he's kind of a super impatient grumpypants who gets mad if I don't do something right even if I've never done before, and keeps grabbing the wheel if I don't steer right. I didn't want to get back into the car with him and was pretty nervous and upset before my second and third lessons.
but then the third lesson, this past Wednesday, totally took the cake in terms of horrible. He got mad at me for having trouble handling with a different car (both my sister, who's also taking lessons right now, and I noticed the pedals on our car are noticeably more sensitive than his) IN A THUNDER STORM. like, it was raining super hard and the roads were slippery. and he got mad at me for not being able to drive perfectly.
he cut the lesson short (it was supposed to be two hours and he made it one) because we were supposed to practice driving downtown but he thought I wasn't ready because I was having trouble driving in those conditions. and like he kept insisting the entire lesson that "if you keep this up without practicing more, you're going to need to pay for extra lessons" and "If it were up to me I wouldn't let you on the streets alone like this." and I cried a little bit in the car (he didn't notice, or if he did he didn't say anything) and I cried a lot once I got home and was alone.
BUT LUCKILY my parents, after hearing this, aren't gonna make me finish the remaining five hours of lessons with him because it is not worth me feeling like this and it's not helping me drive at all. I already did the in-class part of the program and I'm gonna be finishing up the online course part before we email them to cancel, so it's not like they wasted money, cuz I did learn some things from the in-class and online parts. my dad's just gonna teach me and that's okay cuz he's WAAAAY more patient and it's actually kind of fun with him.
but like holy shit I spent a good chunk of Thursday still feeling shaky and even now I'm flabbergasted at how awful that was.
SO HOW'S EVERYONE ELSE'S SUMMERS BEEN SINCE WE LAST TALKED?