where did you learn how to drive?

[achow]

I am creating a thread and I was wondering where did you learn how to drive? I am learning how to drive through a private driving school.:)

[tutusue]

When I was 14 I had a 16 year old boyfriend. Shhhh...don't tell! He had an older sister who owned a 1952 Corvette. I learned to drive in that car on the track/football field at Laguna Beach High School...on Sundays...late!

OMG...that was so much fun!

Then my dad decided to teach me how to drive when I was 15. Round and round the Boat Canyon Shopping Center parking lot we'd go. He didn't know that I already knew!!!

Then 2nd semester of my sophomore year at LBHS I had to take drivers ed. By then I was an ol' hand! Got an "A". ;)

My 16th birthday fell on a Sunday. I was sooooo pi$$ed that I had to wait 'til Monday to get my license! :D

[Leo Lakio]

High school - midwest - wintertime. The concept was "if you can drive in this, you can handle anything else."

[1stwahine]

I am creating a thread and I was wondering where did you learn how to drive? I am learning how to drive through a private driving school.:)

Excuse me! You started a thread on the same topic on Feb. 7th.:confused:
http://hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=11895

Auntie Lynn:D

[tutusue]

Excuse me! You started a thread on the same topic on Feb. 7th.:confused:
http://hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=11895

Auntie Lynn:D
Oh man...such a good memory, Auntie! Just wait 'til you hit your 60s! Poof! Gone! :o

[lavagal]

Oh man...such a good memory, Auntie! Just wait 'til you hit your 60s! Poof! Gone! :o

oh Puhlease! I'm in my 40s and I forget everything! And you know what? Most of the time the world is a better place because I don't bring up having to pick up laundry, dig up melted candies in wrappers from litle girls' jeans that have been through the washer and dryer, or where I dropped my keys last Friday (had to get a new set).

As for learning how to drive, my dad taught me in the 1972 VW Bug, a four-speed stick, in the parking lot of Moorestown High School in New Jersey. I think I was in something like five accidents in the first year of driving. Would you believe none was my fault? Neither did my mother. One old man took me to court and witnesses who appeared explained to the judge how HE ran a stop sign. My first car was a 1974 MGB. Olive green, LEMON.

Which inspires me to start this thread (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?p=132675#post132675).

[Kaukura]

I hate to admit that I do not know how to drive. I've always lived in cities where a car was not necessary, then if I needed to go anywhere far, I'd take a cab to the airport and fly off.

I really do need to learn to drive here, not that I find a car necessary, but for my job, it'd help a lot if I did.

[adrian]

in reality? High school's drivers ed.

in games? either it was in Gran Turismo 2 or 3 or in Grand Theft Auto 3.

:D

[oceanpacific]

Age 16, in our old Fargo truck, three speed floor-mounted stick shift, by our neighbor man. Passed the road test two days before the 60-day learner's permit expired. I send my kids to private driving instructors. Drivers' education classes have been too full.

Anyone else remember FARGO?

[Pomai]

During closed hours on Windward Community College campus. Same for King Intermediate School (both in Kaneohe).

Keep in mind, when you take your driver's road test, they make you parallel park on a STEEP HILL on this suburb st. near Kaneohe Police Station. Do not take your test on a standard shift if you're not really good at it!

I learned and received my license on an automatic, then soon after getting my license (@ 18 y/o), my folks bought me a brand new Mazda pick-up truck with STANDARD SHIFT. Within a week with the truck, I accidentally popped the clutch while reversing in a tight parking lot and crushed the rear left (steel) bumper in. I was soooo pissed at myself. My folks just said, "well, you have to pay to repair that yourself". I never did (it would've costed over $800 at the repair shop). Just lived with it the entire life of the truck. :o

[cynsaligia]

i learned how to drive from an instructor at the not-so-tender-age-driving-wise of 21. i knew better than to learn from momola, who even now still insists on NOT looking behind her but depending only on her mirrors when doing things like switching lanes, which vexes me to no end. she is also one of those who drives 40 in the fast lane on a non-trafficky day.

luckily for most of us who post here, she now lives in portland, OR.

i'll need to hire someone to teach me to drive stick sometime this year, bcs i refuse refuse refuse to buy an auto MINI cooper s, and the beau is not a good teaching candidate. eric's a patient guy, generally, but he claims he's as impatient when it comes to driving lessons.

[jdub]

My dad taught me how to drive in our old Mazda station wagon on the back roads of Waimanalo. Fond memories, those.

[Da Rolling Eye]

High school driver's ed and my best pal "smoking" buddy in his 62 Chevy II, 3 spd. column shift, back in the late 60's. Them was shining times fer sure. :D

[mel]

Learned to drive? On an open ranchland somewhere on the Big Island. 1960 Willys Pick-Up truck. 3 speed manual stick with 4WD. Later went on to International Harvester Pickup truck, 1967 model. I was a kid at first. Dad taught me. Thanx!

[EastCoastTropics]

I am a (proud) woman driver....and I learned to drive from men! :p Dad first taught me to drive in a school parking lot...I was 14. At 18 a boyfriend taught me to drive a standard.

[MixedPlateBroker]

Driving around the island in my uncle's stick shift 4WD Tercel station wagon and my grandfather's F150. However, it was my father's drill intructor-like tutoring that cemented driver consideration and traffic hyper-awareness into my psyche.

Judging by how some people don't use their turn signals when changing lanes or drive well below the speed limit in the left lane on H-1, I'd venture that the go-kart track at Castle Park served as driver finishing school for far too many. :p

[oggboy]

On Maui, road`s just 2 lanes and never even have traffic lites yet. Talk about I no can think!!! B-4 day`s wuz all standard shift car, stick shift, column shift,and even had button shift which came out later on. Good fun b-cause never have the traffic them days and everthing was more slow paced and not gotta speed. My Dad let me drive on secluded areas with his truck which was a stick shift. Now days forget about teaching the kids like I was taught. Send them to driving school..... Oh well memories.......

[glossyp]

I was seven years old and could barely reach the pedals of an old 57 Chevy pickup we called "The Green Hornet" and I was responsible for driving it down the rows of freshly baled hay and stopping to allow the workers to load the bales into the bed. When it was full, I'd drive it to the barn about two miles down a gravel mountain road. I got my driver's permit at 13 (allowed to drive to and from school and around the ranch) and never looked back! Love, love, love to drive anytime, anywhere.

[Cameron]

I drove on the road a total of 4 times before I got my license:p . The first and second times were with my drivers ed instructor, who is a friend of the family. The third was to the Wahiawa DMV only to be denied my drivers test because I had a burnt out tail light, and the 4th was when I returned to the DMV a week later with a new tail light.

Any other driving experience came from the arcade, gocarts, and driving the car around the neighborhood (which doesn't).

[Pua'i Mana'o]

at 13yrs old in my grampa's big, rusty, light blue old van with a very sticky column shift, on the backroads. My first automatic car was the one I bought in 1997.