MinnieM123
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Good. She's lucky to have you help her navigate through some of the important nuances of the driving public!
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donaldtoo
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I tried this last week. I had very high hopes, but was thoroughly disappointed.
There was no peach taste, at all, to the shake…it tasted just like a plain vanilla shake. There were plenty of small peach chunks in it that came up through the straw, but even they were completely flavorless. I don’t know if they made it wrong or something, but total disappointment.
Agent H
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I get paid tomorrow so hopefully I’ll buy one then.I tried this last week. I had very high hopes, but was thoroughly disappointed.
There was no peach taste, at all, to the shake…it tasted just like a plain vanilla shake. There were plenty of small peach chunks in it that came up through the straw, but even they were completely flavorless. I don’t know if they made it wrong or something, but total disappointment.
Pix E. Dust
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Free or reasonably priced drivers ed would be a dream. My son is doing it now. Only option in town and it costs $1300. And that's in Canadian dollars!
How did we learn how to drive before drivers test back in the day? Not spending money on these items and friends and family teaching us.
Pix E. Dust
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I'm not sure. I took Drivers Ed. If you don't take it here, your insurance will be through th roof.
wdwfan4ver
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I didn't get Strawberries from there because I founded out they are not ready yet due to the weather, but Schartner's Farm Market did have Asparagus. I did see fresh peaches being sold there.
donaldtoo
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Looking forward to your thoughts.
donaldtoo
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Drivers Ed was a high school course here, as well, back in my day.
It consisted of classroom instruction (including a bunch of those “Blood on the Highway”-type films), and then there was behind the wheel instruction. It would be yourself and two other students in the car with the instructor.
Our driving instructor was an assistant football coach.
I did receive instruction from my Pop, but that was a coupla’ years before Drivers Ed. I used to drive on my grandparents farms.
The first vehicle I ever learned to drive was a 1963 International Harvester pickup, with “three-on-the-tree”…3-speed manual shift on the steering column. I was thirteen.
Good times…!!!
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StarWarsGirl
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Yeah, I'm surprised they had it here. Maryland you have to pay for it. And it's required to get your license. Google says you can now do it online, but yeah...stupid.Good. She's lucky to have you help her navigate through some of the important nuances of the driving public!
I don't even know if it helps produce better drivers. I know I retained a good bit from drivers Ed because my parents researched and put me in a decent program. Plus I did it several months after I had already started driving, so I wasn't totally new. But there's definitely stuff she should have learned and didn't retain or that wasn't taught.
Funny thing, I had to explain to my grandma and her friends (who are closer to my parents age) how right of way works at a four way stop.
And I don't know how many times I've had to educate people that when you come to a light that's out, you're supposed to treat it like a four way stop. But then I never knew the passing lane rule until the internet. They definitely didn't cover that in my driver's Ed course. Though in many cases, it's not a practical rule to stay to the right. Especially on PA's bad roads (though once again, that varies by area. Hershey has great roads. This area...ha. And Maryland is worse in Baltimore than further north where I am; those roads are good).
FutureCEO
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if there's a light out somewhere, which hasn't really happened. I take a detour or don't go out. Complete chaos.Yeah, I'm surprised they had it here. Maryland you have to pay for it. And it's required to get your license. Google says you can now do it online, but yeah...stupid.
I don't even know if it helps produce better drivers. I know I retained a good bit from drivers Ed because my parents researched and put me in a decent program. Plus I did it several months after I had already started driving, so I wasn't totally new. But there's definitely stuff she should have learned and didn't retain or that wasn't taught.
Funny thing, I had to explain to my grandma and her friends (who are closer to my parents age) how right of way works at a four way stop.
Every year before graduation the cops get a tow driver to bring a totaled car and put it in front of the high school. There is a sign by what’s left of the car - Don’t drink and drive.Drivers Ed was a high school course here, as well, back in my day.
It consisted of classroom instruction (including a bunch of those “Blood on the Highway”-type films), and then there was behind the wheel instruction. It would be yourself and two other students in the car with the instructor.
Our driving instructor was an assistant football coach.
I did receive instruction from my Pop, but that was a coupla’ years before Drivers Ed. I used to drive on my grandparents farms.
The first vehicle I ever learned to drive was a 1963 International Harvester pickup, with “three-on-the-tree”…3-speed manual shift on the steering column.
Good times…!!!
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Not in my area -- all the kids I knew took driving classes (whether in high school, or via a private driving school company). (The kids may have practiced with family members as well, but the actual instruction was in a formal setting.)
It was also an unwritten rule that the Registry inspectors failed the non-school drivers, more than the ones that learned via a driving school. Reason was that the Registry cops knew that the driving school teachers would not send out a student, who was not "ready" yet, for the actual state-mandated, driving test.
I was guilty of not wearing a seat belt my first year of driving. The only time I wore it that year was at my drivers test. I practiced the parallel parking a lot prior to the test. Then in the 1980s cars came out with the motorized seat belt then I had to put in the lap belt. I got used to that very quick.
ajrwdwgirl
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Our school offered driver's ed and the class portion was in the summer, we could either take the morning session or the afternoon. We had the class portion for about an hour a day with all the rules and videos. Then the next hour was a driving portion, our school got cars from local dealerships and our instructor set up a driving course in the parking lot of the high school. The driving course was set up in stations, like a practice area to try parking in diagonal, straight and parallel parking, driving around cones, driving backwards and that type of stuff. Once the class was finished we were then cleared to go to the DMV to test for our learner's permit, then a couple months before our 16th birthday we would do the behind the wheel portion of Driver's Ed. Any kid that lived in town would be picked up by the driver's ed instructor and a student would be driving the car, if kids lived out in the country they had to get picked up at the school. Usually driving our driving lesson we would have to stop at the gas station so our instructor could get a coffee refill or something, and country music was always on the radio unless it was at the time Paul Harvey was the radio.
I think the driving course in our school's parking lot was very helpful for us and made a lot of us more confident when the actual driving portion came about. Although there were plenty of farm kids that already drove tractors and trucks on the farm. I, at least, got to practice driving with the riding lawn mower at home.
I think the driving course in our school's parking lot was very helpful for us and made a lot of us more confident when the actual driving portion came about. Although there were plenty of farm kids that already drove tractors and trucks on the farm. I, at least, got to practice driving with the riding lawn mower at home.
ajrwdwgirl
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Ugh had a double post for some reason...so I'll just share good thoughts.
donaldtoo
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I don’t recall them ever doing that at our high school, but, as I said, they showed us plenty of those bloody highway films…burned to death corpses, faces smashed in beyond recognition, etc. Many had to leave the room, but I watched and, man, they were nasty.
Also, it behooved you to, pretty much, know the Texas Driver Handbook from front to back. It was a good class with good behind the wheel instruction, as well.
As I posted earlier, I received instruction from my Pop well before I ever took Drivers Ed.
A few gems below that my Pop imparted to me…
• Drive like everyone else on the road is a complete and total idiot (he actually used another word) except yourself.
• If you think there’s no way that car at the side street or drive you’re approaching will not pull out in front of you, think again.
• Having the right-of-way doesn’t make you any less crippled or dead.
I actually experienced the second one many years ago. I had to swerve from the right lane to the left, and missed their front bumper by about a foot. Damn near scared the crap outta’ me, but, as I was approaching, I was prepared.
I passed both the written and driving tests on my first try, including parallel parking.
The last traffic “entanglement” I was involved in was back in ‘91 or ‘92…can’t remember for sure.
I was waiting at a light in the left lane with a car on my right. When the light changed and we started rolling, she cut it short toward the left lane right across my right front bumper. Left a big gash in the side of her car from midway in the drivers door, through the rear door to the rear fender.
Her fault, her insurance covered my damage, which was actually pretty minimal.
And, even though I retired from the “rat race” back in March of last year, I’m still driving our son to work three days a week, thirteen miles each way.
As a result of all of the above, I passed along my driving knowledge and experience(s) to our two daughters, and both have, pretty much, perfect driving records, at ages 30 and 33…!!!
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donaldtoo
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We never had the driving course in the school parking lot, they just took us directly to the road.
At the time (about 47 years ago) the high school I went to was pretty rural, so, as you posted, most of the kids already had much driving experience on backroads, ranches, farms, etc.
And yes, we also had to go to the DPS to test for our learners permit, at age 15. Passed that the first time, as well.
That summer (1978) we drove back to No Cal to visit friends. We went through Colorado to see the sights.
We drove our ‘70 Chevy Camper Special with the cab over camper, and pulling a small tent trailer behind, as our family of six had outgrown the camper. Mom, Pop and lil’ sis slept in the camper, and myself and two younger bros slept in the tent trailer.
Anyhoo, my folks let me drive the whole shebang on I-70, through the mountains of western Colorado, and all the way to I-15 in Utah.
I drove a good bit on the way back home to Texas, as well, without incident.
On a side note, I’m hearing these days that many kids don’t even want to learn how to to drive and get a drivers license, or they’re delaying it for a while.
Man, when I was in high school, everyone was chompin’ at the bit to get their drivers license, boys and girls.