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I didn't learn to drive until I was thirty years old. Before then I didn't have enough money I had told people although the real reason I was nervous of learning to drive. My first lesson in a manual car was a disaster. I was just so hopeless at changing the gears. When I thought I was in first gear I would stall because I was really in third gear. When I got home I felt really unhappy and that evening my friend Jenny phoned. She was sorry to hear how badly my driving lesson had gone. When she found out my problem was with gears she suggested I had automatic driving lessons.

I looked in the telephone directory to find how to get automatic driving lessons. There were three driving schools that offered automatic driving lessons. The first driving school I phoned said that I could have a lesson on Thursday afternoon. I got on so very well not having to change gear. I moved the gear stick from 'p' for park to 'd' for drive and off I went. I felt so much happier with my choice of transmission.

I took my theory test and it was really easy after all the revising I had done. The hazard perception test was fine too. My instructor felt confident about my driving so he said it was time to book my practical test. I managed to get a date sooner that we had imagined because of a cancellation. I carried on having one lesson a week during the month I had to wait for my driving test.

The examiner asked me to do a turn in the road and that went superbly. After turning off the High Street into a quiet road he asked me to do an emergency stop. That went really well too. I backed round the corner really smoothly. I was so delighted and happy to say that I did pass it first time.

To celebrate my good luck my boyfriend Martin took me out for a candle lit meal in town. Afterwards he took me back to his flat in his car. I told him I wanted by buy a car. He suggested I got one in a lower insurance bracket than his car. He had a manual car. I needed to get an automatic car because I had done automatic driving lessons. We cuddled up that night in bed together. At midnight he held me in his arms and he said he loved me. We made love together so tenderly and passionately.

The next day he took me to his dad's house. His dad was getting rid of his work van to buy a car now he had changed careers. He suggested that because it was automatic I might like to have it. Martin painted it for me to get rid of the logo on the side of it. It had two seats in the front and compartment in the back that was big to sleep in for weekends away.