Driving in a Fast Car

Only my first day of solo driving and already I realise what a joy and a curse it is. Like the blind bloke out of Oedipus who could see the future (oh the irony), it is both blessing and a hindrance. Here traffic is a nightmare from 7.30am until 10am and then again from 3.30pm until 6.30pm. There is no longer a rush hour. To try and encourage sharing of travel there are car pool lanes that allow any vehicle that has 2 or more people (or is a hybrid) to travel, and that certainly speeds up the process at times. But the general problem is the amount of nutters on the road. Unlike the UK the Californian test lasts 20 minutes and the only maenourve I had to do was reverse in a straight line. No emergency stops, no 3 point turns, not parallel parking, so pretty much anyone can and does get a licence.

I am sure I will be whinging about this for weeks to come, so I'll stop now. Luckily I had Basement Jaxx playing to keep me smiling, while people cut me off, swerved in front of me and honked their horn at me. Why they were all insisting on driving on the right hand side I will never know. Luckily I didn't let them put me off.