Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Car Driver

Throughout my first year of driving, I have had anything but a traditional, safe experience behind the wheel of my 2-ton car. It seems like anytime I get behind the wheel of a car, something somewhere in the universe decides to test me once again. However, despite being a firsthand witness to my awful luck, I also astonish myself every time I experience these situations with how I handle and learn from them. This is one of those times. After having my license for about 8 months, you would think I had possessed the knowledge of how to not endanger myself when driving a car. I did, but numerous people on the road had other ideas about the status of my life. It was the middle of a dull week in the summer; a luminous, temperate day that would soon turn cold as ice. I was summoned by my father to meet him at his office and follow him to the car dealership to get his oil changed. After this expedition, I would then repeat the whole journey take him back to his office. This task, although simple, would turn out to be quite the challenge amidst the drive. …show more content…
I turned onto an unknown road in Lansing that would take me to the car dealership, and this is where the predicament occurred. I let the distance between my dad’s car and mine build up, because I was not in a hurry and didn’t feel the need to tailgate him, just following at a presumably safe distance. As I was focusing on the road before me, I saw a car pull up beside me through my blindspot, but not so much past me, merely putting me in their blindspot. I made the assumption in my head, Oh, they just passed me, of course they know that I am driving right here next to them. This was a