Don't skip the last lesson
After giving my daughter a few hours of driving a stick - she boldly proclaimed 'I got it.' My reply was, 'But you didn't get your last lesson.' She insisted she was good to go.
A couple months later she went on vacation to western Virginia and I got a call late in the evening.
'Mom, there's something wrong with my car. It keeps stuttering when I'm going uphill and it bogs down and I lose speed. It's scary.'
'Well, what are you doing differently?" I asked. 'Nothing.'
"Well, are you down-shifting to pick up speed?"
'OH NO I can't do that, I'd go even slower.'
Then I remembered she'd skipped her last lesson.
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