What was your very first drive like?

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
11/17/2014 at 14:17 • Filed to: Good times

So, I was just reminded of the very first time I drove a car. I came home with my shiny new learners permit, and I showed it to my dad. He said, "Alright, let's go!"

"Really? But it's dark out."

"So?"

"And it's snowing."

"So?"

"And I've never driven a car before."

"You mean, you've never stolen the car before?"

To this day, I'm not sure if he was serious with that question. He did later tell me about the older friend, whom they used to get drunk until he passed out. Then they'd steal his car and drive around for hours.

Anyways, I made my dad back the car out of the 1-car garage, but he made me back it down the long, dark, narrow driveway, with bushes on each side. We then took the car on the most exhilarating drive around the block EVAR!

What was the first time you ever drove like?

DISCUSSION (27)

macanamera > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:21

Parents were gone for the weekend, didn't have a permit or a license, took the car out, picked up two girls, had fun.

That being said, I don't recommend it.

Textured Soy Protein > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:21

My first time "driving" was when my mom was driving me and a friend around doing errands in her '96 Town & Country. I was like 14 or 15, no learner's permit yet. Mom went into a store and left the van running with us in it.

I said to my friend, "hey look I can drive," and hopped in the driver's seat. I didn't realize the car would move on its own without me pressing the gas, so I promptly freaked out when I put it in reverse and it started moving backward as soon as I took my foot off the brake. I was similarly surprised when the same thing happened going forward as well.

ly2v8-Brian > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:24

My mom drove me to the empty lot of her office and parked it, and told me to drive. I was surprised because I didn't even have my permit yet. She told me to just stay within the office park. Did that several times. Even in snow.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:29

I learn how to drive in my friend's 1999 Suzuki Wagon R. White, with no power steering and manual transmission. It was 12pm in a sunday afternoon in my uni's car park, and i told him "You know what? i'm a huge car nut but i never driven a car before". And he told me "Well, you can drive my car then."

Then i stalled. Twice. I'm quite embarrased with my satlling, but then he told me the right way to release the clutch and then i finally driving properly arround the uni.

It's quite a fun drive.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:29

I got my permit two days after my sixteenth birthday. Immediately after we got home from the registry, my dad took me to the local middle school parking lot for a driving lesson. I had been playing Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 with a steering wheel and pedal set, so I had a...distorted perspective on pedal travel.

We get to the lot, my dad lets me get in the driver's seat, shows me how to put it in gear, and how to coast around with no throttle. So far so good.

Then he says "now give it some gas". I push the pedal all the way to the floor, getting the Mercury Villager to spin the tires as the van jumped forward. My dad screams something along the lines of "no! stop! oh God!" and I slam on the brakes...the whole van screeches to a halt in front of a divider.

Sn210 > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:40

I think my first time ever was my late grandfather's K-car through my grandmother's field. She had 7 acres of property so she didn't mind. I was 14 or 15

Agrajag > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:40

In a church parking lot with my older brother angrily instructing me.

JR1 > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:42

I was 10 years old. I drove a 1994 F150 around the neighborhood up to my grandparents and scared the shit out of one of my neighbors.

SmoresTM Has No Chill (O==[][]==O) > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:45

My first time driving a real car was when I was 12. We were in Martha's Vineyard or something like that and rented a black Nissan Altima. My uncle was sort of "teaching me how to drive" at that time and after lunch one day he just say "okay, you're driving". Now, I thought he meant I was going to steer while he worked the pedals, but nope. I drove around on a couple dirt roads for half an hour and when I got back to the house my mom was extremely excited, and my aunt and grandmother wanted to kill my uncle. Oh well!

But, by that time my dad had lived on a farm for a couple years and I had driven a bunch of quads and small tractors so I sort of knew what I was doing... Sort of.

Daniel Justice > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:55

My father's 1988 Accord fastback. Manual 5-speed. First car I ever drove. I left the DMV with my father, a learner's permit paper in hand, having just done the knowledge test. We went to an empty warehouse parking lot to practice. After driving around an hour or so in the lot, my dad said screw it, and let me loose on the nearby 55MPH highway to go home. I was still sketchy driving a stick, you know, taking 10 seconds to release the clutch to the engagement point. So the trip home was full of stalls and angry drivers. But I'll never forget that proud day, of being thrown right into the warzone.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:55

I was 14 I think, dad was just like "Here, drive." I drove my girlfriend home with my dad in the passenger seat instructing me. Mind you, she only lives a neighborhood over and it's less than a mile away. But I was 14, driving my mom's car we were still paying for, on public roads.

CB > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 14:57

I nearly drove into the garage door of my grandmother's house in Florida after briefly treading over the lawn in a rental Corolla. I was 13, I think.

When I got my license, it was a lot more uneventful. I had driven a lot of go-karts (and played a lot of video games), so it was pretty uneventful.

Then we get to my sister. We got our licenses at the same time (being twins does that), and she was a bit more... cautious . She didn't touch the gas pedal for the first ten minutes. When we were approaching a parked car, she swerved all the way to the other side of the road. Dad wasn't too happy about this. Eventually she started touching the gas. The rest of her driving wasn't memorable.

Other than the brief moment that we were in a roundabout, and I looked behind us. A garbage truck was filling up the entire back window, probably five feet from us.

" This is it, " I thought. " This is the end. "

But we didn't die and made it back home. And somehow, it took me three tries to get my G2 and her only one. I'll never understand the universe.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 15:01

My first bit of driving involved helping move cars in and out of the driveway when I was around 14 or 15... obviously before I had my license. My first real drive was in a driving school car that was a 1989 Chevy Corsica LTZ hatchback with the 2.8L V6 and 3 speed auto.

I was very cautious at first until I got used to the car. And I was cautious mainly because two older siblings got into collisions not long after they started driving and I didn't want to repeat the cycle.

shop-teacher > Textured Soy Protein
11/17/2014 at 16:30

Ha! Did some poo come out?

shop-teacher > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/17/2014 at 16:32

I bet there was some pucker factor going on there!

shop-teacher > macanamera
11/17/2014 at 16:33

I knew some girls who used to do that regularly. I was too afraid of getting caught, and delaying when I could get my license to try it.

shop-teacher > Agrajag
11/17/2014 at 16:34

Ha! I ended up having to teach my little sister how to drive, as my dad was just too intense for her. He kept making her cry.

shop-teacher > Aaron M - MasoFiST
11/17/2014 at 16:35

That cracked me up!

shop-teacher > Daniel Justice
11/17/2014 at 16:38

That's the best way to do it, IMO. I taught my little sister how to drive, and the first good snow we got (5-6 inches), I tossed her the keys to my open diff 2wd S-10. I told her, if you can handle this thing in the snow, then you can handle anything in the snow. We spent two and a half hours slip-sliding around, but she did pretty well. I never worried about her driving again.

Textured Soy Protein > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 16:42

Luckily, no.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > shop-teacher
11/17/2014 at 21:44

My parents are no fun. They wouldnt let me drive until I had my first Drivers ed lesson. My first teacher gave up mid drive, I was asking what to do because she wasnt telling me. My instincts picked up pretty quick after that. Im a very good driver now, Im gonna ace that test

Dsscats > shop-teacher
11/18/2014 at 00:26

Practiced in a parking lot. Drove 30 feet. Sheriff came in. Got so nervous I couldn't figure out how to roll down the window.

shop-teacher > Dsscats
11/18/2014 at 14:04

That cracked me up! I assume once you did figure out, that the Sheriff didn't hassle you too much.

Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/18/2014 at 16:09

You had a girlfriend at 14? I'm not saying that's bad, it's just unusual.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready
11/18/2014 at 16:10

13, actually. And we're still dating, so I wouldn't call it unsuccessful.

Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/18/2014 at 16:12

Interesting.

bob and john > shop-teacher
11/18/2014 at 16:34

great story, (not mine...but an asian girl who I used to go to school with)

not a car person. she didn't now the pedals where PRESSURE SENSITIVE. (to this day it boggles my mind)

her dad wanted her to learn, so he stuck her in their BMW 335Xi. she put the car in reverse, mashed the pedal, went straight into the garage of the house across the street. and I do mean straight into. 50K worth of repairs to the BMW, the house, and the merc that was in the garage she went into, her dad isnt letting her drive. ever.