Lucky Girl

Caption: My 98 Toyota Corolla AE102. I know it is a bit disagreeing with an environmentally friendly lifestyle to shift from public transport to private car, but it saves me lots of time and money. The public transport here is unreliable and it is more expensive than driving. Obviously the Aussie Government needs to pay some attention on this issue.

I always feel that I am a lucky and blessed person. Not fortunate with jet pot but things around me just go smoothly and nicely all the time. Although lots of them happened unexpectedly and unwanted, outcomes are not bad at all. Sometimes even some "dangerous" incidents for many people become adventurous experience for me. Nice! I treasure and appreciate this kind of fortune very much.
Such feeling strengthened a lot after I started my driving life. I brought a used Corolla last week in order to increase my mobility in Oz as well as saving my time+money. When I picked my car last Friday, it was the first time I have to drive a car independently. I won’t say my driving skill is bad but absolutely it is not good at all. Due to the nervousness and stressfulness I had for my debut driving, I almost crossed an intersection when the red light was on and changed lane improperly for couple times. Fortunately, I passed through all of them. The most horrible thing was about my parking. I can’t find any word that can describe how dreadful it is... Forget about to park successfully for once or twice, I don’t think I can park my car in the proper position for less than 3 or 4 times trials. Situation became ten times worse when I noticed that I was blocking the traffic during parallel street parking: always forget to give a signle light before stoping my car for parking and I even got tangled with the R/D (modes of automatic transmission) and left/right during reversing my car. I couldn’t remember how many times I had scratched the tyres as i also parked too close to kerbs. Not hard to imagine how horrible my parking was/is. I was so relief that I came home "entirely" at the end, both the Corolla and me.
But it is not the reason why I said I feel luckier after getting the car. The reason is how jammy I was when I had my driving test!! To be honest, I cannot recall exactly what happened during the test. The only thing I remembered is the examiner was a bit mindfulness during the test as I had to reminded him that I’d done the parking already when he asked me to do it at the second time. By the way, I am confident that I drive pretty well in a straight and big road, of course without any parking required.
One last thing to mention: the day I started of my independent driving life was a Black Friday, hopefully it doesn’t portend anything.

P.S. I read an interesting quote recently and I love it very much. It might become my motto one day, I suppose:
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." –by Henry Youngsman