#Driving lessons

[csnk]

As long as you’re there, I’ll be fine. Of course I’ll be there. It’s silly, I know, but I think if you weren’t there with me, I couldn’t go on. You’re my poet. You understand the power of words.

JULIE WALTERS & RUPERT GRINT in Driving Lessons (2006, dir. Jeremy Brock)

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[sendryl]

Flufftober Day 2 - “Left. Other left!”

Danny/Duke - Driving Lessons

Danny's teaching Duke how to drive.

Duke hasn't ever needed to learn, he's got his bike and he's got his metro card and he's got his grapple, so he's just fine.

Danny thinks he's being silly and takes him out to a parking lot to practice.

Turns out Duke can't drive. Like, at all.

Danny spends the time phasing them through solid objects because Duke keeps side swiping the light posts and running over the cement blocks. He's terrible at parking and he either jerks the wheel too hard or not at all.

Reversing is a nightmare.

Afterwards, Duke asks how he did.

Danny's almost nauseated from all the jerky steering and from the panic, but he gives Duke a shaky thumbs up.

What else can he do? Duke looks so excited.

They go out for ice cream after, and Duke is all excited for his next lesson. Danny just eats his ice cream and internally screams.

Duke's lucky he loves him so much. Otherwise, there's no way Danny would ever get in a car with him ever again.

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Road Hazard (dp x dc)

Cassie looked to the side at the boy sitting next to her in the small waiting room.

"You nervous?" she asked and he looked up from whatever he was doing with his phone to answer.

"Eh." The guy answered with a vague hand motion and Cassie had to squash the need to pat his head kindly. Though he had to be at least sixteen if he was taking driving lessons, he looked way younger. With his messy black hair and big blue eyes he made her think of a disgruntled kitten that had been scruffed abruptly.

"I'm sure you'll do great!" Cassie couldn't help but want to encourage him. She herself had only just started taking the classes since she'd never found the time before.

But her words seemed to have the opposite effect as she wanted as the kid seemed to deflate at her words. "It's going to go terrible," he bemoaned.

"Don't say that," the demigoddess chided. "We're still learning this stuff. It's normal to have some issues still." She pointed to herself. "I can't seem to park, like, at all."

"It's not the same," the guy said. "Bad driving is in my blood. I'm literally destined to be awful at this. I had to take classes two hours away from my hometown because they didn't want to let me behind the wheel."

"Look," there Cassie paused, realizing she didn't know his name. "Danny," the kid provided helpfully after the short silence. "Cassie," she introduced herself.

"It's just a joint practice," she said. "So you won't be evaluated today. Nobody's expecting miracles here. So don't worry so much, ok?"

The kid exhaled audibly and let himself sag. "Yeah," Danny said. "Yeah, ok."

"Let's just do our best and have fun!" Cassie gave him a smile she hoped was encouraging and his own lips tugged upwards in response.

"Cassie Sandmark and Danny Fenton?" called the voice of the receptionist. The two stood up and were directed towards a man looking to be in his forties holding car keys.

"Who wants to start us off?" the man said.

Cassie looked to Danny. "Want to start?"

The kid heaved a breath. "Sure," he said, trying to sound resolute.

"Let's go," said the instructor, giving the keys to Danny before guiding them towards the car.

Danny got in the driver's seat, and Cassie looked on as he went through the steps of rearranging the seat and mirrors, putting on his belt. Then, the instructor gave the go ahead and Danny switched from park to reverse. He took off the hand brake before twisting around. He started reversing the car jerkily.

"Easy," the instructor said, then after a moment spoke up again. "Alright now you can go forward and merge with traffic."

Danny put the car to drive and took a deep breath as he signaled with the blinking light his next move. So far so good, thought Cassie.

And as if the universe had heard her, that was the moment Danny went full throttle on the gas pedal, propulsion the three of them onto the street, narrowly missing getting rear ended by the truck behind them. Cassie's yelp was drowned out by the cacophony of honks that sounded just behind her.

"Easy, easy, easy, easy!" the instructor was repeating which, to his credit, did seem to get Danny to slow down a bit, but then the traffic light in front turned yellow and the car once again roared to life as they dashed forward. This time the instructor yelped as well as one straggling pedestrian had to jump out of the way of the moving car.

So maybe, Danny hadn't been exaggerating after all.

[picknmixsims]

No Driving Without A Licence - Cancel Booking Update

Driving Licence

Cosmetic update to include the lesson/test time in the Cancel Booking phone call option.

Useful as a way to discover when a Sim's lesson/test is.

Thanks to TheDarkLady for raising this.

[wishesbythesea]

Lady Gaga the day she passed her driving test, 2016

[the-mortal-incorrects]

Jace: And what if I press the brake and gas at the same time? Simon: The car takes a screenshot. Clary: For the last time, get the fuck out.

[104-days-of-gifs]

Another 104 Days of Phineas and Ferb GIFs: Day 42

[yayydhd]

Driving lesson's suck

I didn't tell them I have adhd

And he keeps telling me I need to "think ahead" and "try not to do everything at the last moment"

LISTEN MAN I...

[the-final-sentence]

As I stood there, the whole world became perfectly all right, water lapping, gulls calling, and in this beauty, in this moment of clarity, the sun began to go down, setting the surface of the water on fire.

Deepa Rajagopalan, from "Driving Lessons"

[csnk]

Some mysteries I'll never understand: the way the Earth rotates around the sun, three minutes shorter every day. Or the way the dead are gone. Or putting down the phone or turning a corner. The future: that's another whopper. We can never know what we can never know, except that whoever you are and whoever I am, you made it all right to be me.

DRIVING LESSONS 2006 , dir. Jeremy Brock

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Rupert 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint

August 24,1988

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

24 Agosto 1988

[teacupofsass]

Public transport again because driving is kicking my arse and I can’t pass my theory test 😭🥺

[fujisocks]

I drove a car for the first time and didn't crash it :D 👍

[picknmixsims]

No Driving Without A Licence Patch V2.1

No Driving Without A Licence

Resolves the oddities where a Sim could book a lesson whilst on vacation but not take private lessons in the family car.

While staying at their holiday home, a Sim ...

can "Study Driving Theory" (bookcase)

cannot "Go For Theory Exam" (self)

optionally "Take Lesson" (car)

optionally "Book Lesson" (phone)

cannot "Go For Test" (car)

cannot "Book Test" (phone)

See the Installation section of the web page for option details.

Thanks to @belladovah for pointing this out.

[tilbageidanmark]

Idiots with driving license.