My driving lesson: Part 3

God is testing me.

Really, there is no other plausible answer. I mean, how else could one explain the reason why I keep getting assigned to the ONLY instructor in the school who actually delights in seeing me(for all the amusement I bring him no doubt). This being also the ONLY instructor in the school who scares me half to death and will be responsible, I truly believe, for my imminent failure to get my driving licence.

Lest you think that I'm over reacting(which is actually not very atypical of me, but that's not the point! so stop asking!!), let me bring you through a snippet of how i began today's lesson.

Start of lesson...
Me: (smile frozen on face as i saw THE instructor slide smoothly into the driving seat)
THE instructor: (Sees me, does double take, sinister smile spreads over face) Why.....it's you again. Hooowww niceeee....(teeth flash)
Me: (giggles nervously) yesss...heloooo....(Gulp)
THE instructor: (teeth flash somemore, eyes glitters behind shades. (i could almost hear the sound "tink tink")) Today we are gonna do slopes. Ready?
Me: (Gulp) Yes..errr....think so...that is, if you're ready too...
THE instructor: Oh yess....I'm VERY ready. (Eyes go "tink tink" behind shades)

And off we went. Sure doesn't take a genius to figure out my fate.

Over the next hour and a half, the man in shades would suddenly brake his instructor brake in the face of eminent(to him) danger which unfailingly proves to be nothing more than false alarms, bark at me to turn my wheel quicker and faster at every turn, snigger at me as i attempt to climb slopes and look out for crazy motorists at the same time, practically laugh in my face whenever I get caught at the traffic junction due to my inate(according to him) inability to accelerate strongly and sufficiently from a stop position, etc etc etc.

I, on the other hand, would panic when man in shades suddenly brakes for and with no reason and warning, causing me to swerve my wheel once or twice(which of course provided more amusement for man in shades), mount kerbs while following EXACTLY man in shades' instruction to turn "faster and quicker"(aka amusement), climb up slopes and attempting to accelerate as man in shades keeps reminding me of the cowardly behaviour my driving was making the car display, and accelerate as quickly as possible to clear the traffic light, only to have man in shade brake suddenly on amber, just before the stop line, and smirk, "Too slooowwww. traffic lights turned already. " (Tink Tink)

(sobs)...My prayer for today: Dear Lord, if this is a test. Please let it end now. Oh please oh please oh pleaseeeeeeeeeeEEEeeee!!!!!!!!!! Amen.

The End