Personal Narrative: Drinking And Driving

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My Mom is a pretty awesome person she is the person that taught me how to drive when I was 15. The first day I was going to drive she was so scared that she was shaking and had a big headache. So she had to drink two Advil’s to relax because she looked like she was going to faint well so then we got in the car and she was so nervous she barely talked and all she was doing was holding the emergency brakes so the I turned on the car and started accelerating and the car just went like a rocket because it was my first time driving and I didn’t know that the car would go so fast when I accelerated so then she explained it to me she told me “do not press the gas to hard because it will go fast and you will lose control of the wheel” so then I was

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