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My mother will rarely do anything to help me whenever she's in the car with me. She'll just tell me that my driving is "okay" even though I know fully well that it is well below subpar. For example, one major indicator of the fact that I'm not ready to take my road test happened today. Basically, I was trying to change into the right lane; I looked in my mirror and did a head-check to confirm that the car on the right was letting me cut in front of him, but I still somehow managed to miss the red sports utility vehicle that zoomed straight across that opening from a driveway to the right of the lane I was trying to cut into, and into the lane I was just in. It really scared the crap out of me, and had my mother not told me to look out, it easily could have turned into an accident. I mean, who misses stuff like that? I don't know if it was due to my sleepiness or the sun putting too much glare in my eyes, but it still scares me how I was able to miss that car cutting through while I'm trying to change lanes.

In any case, there are far more things I know I must improve on when driving. For one, I know that I have a tendency to overuse my brake pedals, but am too afraid of crashing into the front car if I'm not using them. Second, this is a major problem for me that will very likely cost me a pass on my driver's test: being sure to stay completely in my lane. I'm just so afraid of accidentally moving into another lane to the point that I'm constantly checking my mirrors to make sure that I'm in between both of the lane markers whenever I stop. And sometimes if I'm afraid that I'm partially in another lane, I tend to look around me, to be sure that I'm not blocking anybody. But in the process, I tend to do the thing that I intended to avoid in the first place, and it just causes me even more distress, knowing that I have messed up by worrying if I messed up or not.

I also have a tendency to not use the gas pedal in times where it's needed. I'm thinking that for example, if I want to conserve the amount of gas I use, when I see a red light, I tend not to exert the pedal. Other cars will sometimes beep me for being too slow, and it just bugs me a lot. There's another reason why I don't use the gas pedal as much as I should: I'm really afraid of high speeds, and I'm afraid of ramming into something, especially when moving the car along curved roads. It just feels so unsafe. I have a bad habit of not being able to stay in my lane along these types of roads, anyway, so I just get even more worried if I'm speeding up and accidentally cross into another lane.

I'm sure that there are far more errors I'm making than the ones I'm mentioning right now, but I'm too stupid to know what they are. There isn't anyone there to guide me. My mother will always just tell me that my driving is "okay" even though I know I'm making a crap-ton of driving pitfalls. She provides no actual critique when driving, because she either has too much bias towards me, she just doesn't notice these errors that I'm making, or she thinks that they're forgivable. Anyway, I know that I've made a topic before asking about how to drive, but I want to ask again.

I must have these answers.
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Number XII: Larxene.
The Organization's Savage Nymph.