The fellow said I was a “very safe driver”, so that made me feel good. Dad was a great teacher…

They make you sit around in the parking lot for like 40 minutes so you can build a good case of the jitters and then the whole test is over in five minutes. Out, turn corner, turn other corner, park on a hill, pull away, turn, turn, turn again, pull over and park, pull away, turn left, change lanes, turn, park, done.

I drove back on the DVP just to celebrate — even though straight down Vic Park would’ve been a faster route home. Heh.

For my non-Ontario readers, the license system here has three levels: G1, G2, and G. G1 is the basic license that you get from the written test. You can’t drive at night or alone or on roads faster than 80 km/h. After a year of that, you pass (yay) the G1 Exit test to get the G2 license, which is basically the full one except with stricter penalties and zero alcohol tolerance… and then another year and another test is the full G.

Mom said before that if I got it I could take the car to work occasionally. I’m going to hold her to that, too, because it’s a 20 minute car ride and well over an hour by public transit… good for reading, I guess.

Mike

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