Driving Class
It’s been a long week so far. Since Monday I’ve been sitting in a training room with a group of 10-20 new postal employees (some sessions have more attendees than others.) We’ve learned about the postal service, safety, benefits, and today we learned about driving. They showed us all the different types of trucks that the postal service uses, explained the differences, and went through all kinds of safety scenarios.
On the drive home I tested myself. I pretended I was taking a driving test and maneuvered everything according to the rules that were outlined in the training session. Doing so accomplished two things: 1) It kept me awake. I had to leave home at 6am all week, and I’m so not used to hours like this. 2) It showed me that I have some really good driving habits. Sure Shawn thinks I’m a bad bad driver, and sometimes I have been known to believe him, but today I found that the things we talked about in class – looking both ways before entering an intersection, even when you have a green light, holding your braking foot over the brake peddle when doing so, keeping a long enough distance between you and the car in front of you – are all things I normally do. Thanks to my excessively-cautious dad, I have developed some great skills.
Sure I’m the old lady on the highway who actually follows the speed limit, who lets everyone ahead of her in traffic because she doesn’t insist on riding *on* cars in front of her, and who slows to a complete stop at stop signs and red lights, but for once, all this will work to my advantage. You *do* know you’re supposed to stop at a red light before proceeding on the right turn with caution, don’t you? Yeah, no one actually does it. I don’t know why I’m surprised when people honk their horns at me for stopping with my blinker on.
Tomorrow we go back for five more hours of driving class. FIVE MORE HOURS. God only knows what we could talk about for five more hours. I honestly think we will have completely exhausted the subject of driving by the time this training class is over.
From there, there’s more training, but I have yet to receive a schedule on that. There will be a road test that consists of street driving and a closed-course cone maneuvering thing. Some people are taking the test tomorrow after class. I’m hoping I’m among those so I can get it over with. If I don’t pass, this whole thing is over. I have to apply for a non-driving position, and honestly, I don’t want one of those. And I really don’t want to go through these orientation sessions again.
Pray for me, please.
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