Watkins Shepard, Here I Come

Neither of those was my instructor, although I'm not going to say who it was because he's a nice guy, just a very lazy instructor. I haven't even met Don yet; not sure if he's taking time off or what.

I believe everyone will be at the DMV for testing on Monday (I heard we're taking all three trucks). Not sure when we're supposed to be back.

I can't help still being stressed about testing. I am capable of doing the skills, although I still have problems with the alley dock and probably always will. My first instinct is to do it the (wrong) way I learned, THEN to second-guess myself and try to do it the right way that I learned later. *sigh*

My mother says not to test at all tomorrow. Joe says not to do the driving test. I need a drink-- or two.

 

I'm sorry for being quiet.

I went to the DMV yesterday morning. Had a slight problem with my parallel (truck got stuck in a rut), but didn't lose any points. Moved on to the alley dock... and failed. I don't even know how I end up failing so miserably, unless the difference between practicing in the dirt yard and doing it on the asphalt DMV test area is so significant. Whatever it is, unfortunately, I didn't pass with flying colors-- or at all. I won't be in Missoula this weekend.

I'm really fortunate Joe was around this week or I might have had it rougher than I did. It was still tough.

Joe has convinced me to not give up. I'm going to go back to the DMV tomorrow and re-test to open my permit. Then I'm going to retest the pretrip and brakes. I am, fortunately, not worried about those. Then I'm going to practice the alley dock as much as I can at school and practice with a toy truck when I'm not at school. Whatever it takes, I will pass it.

I'm done giving up. I will probably never have to do something like this alley dock again... so I just need to do it /good enough/ once. I don't know why that maneuver has such a mental block on me when everything else comes easily, but it can be overcome.