New driver!

[Melalvai]

She can make the tires squeal shifting into SECOND. I giggle, I can't help it. She glares and me and says "Don't laugh!" and then starts laughing.

crazycanuck, she has a Learner's Permit which means she can drive with a parent in the car. She is supposed to log 40 hours including 10 hours of night driving. Then she can get her license which initially has some restrictions on it as well; I don't remember the details. Her mom's rule is "No teenagers in the car with you" and "No using the cell phone".

I like tulip's idea about changing the tire!

badgercat, I'm hoping for a snowy icy winter so that she'll get some inclement weather driving practice. My friend said her dad took her to an icy parking lot and had her slide the car around on that!

Thanks for all the feedback!

[jessmarimba]

I've had my license for 12 years and have probably driven more than my mom has her entire life - and she STILL slams her foot into the floor of the car to "brake" and freaks out when I'm driving. Please please please don't do that to your daughter!

(I've never even gotten a ticket, so she has no reason to do that!)

Congrats on teaching her on a manual though. My mom left for a few weeks when I was very new to driving and took the only car I knew how to drive (on purpose). I got hers stuck on a hill in a nearby neighborhood and it took 2 hours to get out of that subdivision. I haven't tried to drive a stick since.

[Crankin]

We have graduated licensing here, too. But, half the people don't follow the rules. You can get your full license at 16.5, but can't have any passengers under 18 until the driver is 18, unless they are siblings. Can't be on the road between 12:30 AM and 5 AM. We caught our older son driving his friend home from school when he was 17, when DH just happened to be behind him one day. DS sped up and ditched his friend in a K Mart parking lot!
I moved to Florida when I was 15.6 and got my permit and license there. Then I moved to AZ. I didn't have to drive in the snow until I was 37 and it was seriously one of the most traumatic things I've ever had to do. We lived on a huge hill, on scary curve, too. One time I was driving DH's Saab home from the gym and I could not get up my street. I let a strange guy get in my car and drive me up the hill! After 2 years, I insisted on getting AWD, which helped me get up the hill and made me confident. Now, I don't like doing it, still, but I do. Thankfully, as a teacher, I didn't have work when it was really bad, but in the mid nineties, there were a few years of horrible blizzards that started during school time and I lived 40 miles away.
I learned to drive a stick when DH severely sprained his left ankle and couldn't drive his car and we needed to trade cars. I haven't driven a stick since like, 1998, but I am sure I could. Tire changing, no way. That's what AAA is for.

[badgercat]

Tire changing, no way. That's what AAA is for.

Haha, see, I wouldn't have the slightest clue what to do with a clutch, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't jump-start a car without electrocuting myself, but I've changed my own tires--in a dress, no less. It's always so interesting to me hear everyone's different comfort levels with different things when it comes to cars and bikes.