Driving

[gilana]

Sudden thought -- oh, *that's* why I'm so scared of driving. It's a situation where it's critical that I be in control, and I don't know how, and there's no safe and easy way to learn -- you just have to do it. That freaks me out more than I can say. It's much easier to let someone else be in control than to be in control myself and fuck it up.

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[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I think driving is easier for a lot of people because they learned and started doing it as teenagers, when they were still immortal, and before they had a clear sense of how critical the situations can be. In a way "youthful ignorance" becomes the "safe and easy way" to learn. I think it would be much harder to learn at our age. I even had a bad accident in the first few _days_ after going from my provisional to my full license, but, still an immortal teenager, didn't take in the criticality.

Now I'm worse at being a passenger than at driving because I hate being in critical situations in which I have given up control. Flying freaks the fuck out of me, as you know. My friend Scott in Seattle asked this weekend if I tend to be the one driving because I get car-sick and phi and I answered in unison "control freak." hmmm... funny... I think.