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Does anyone else have people they just cannot drive in front of? I cannot drive when my parents are in the car. Not my mum on her own, she's fine, but my mum and dad definitely. I just had to give them a lift up the road in the rain and it was horribly embarrassing. There are two exits from the housing estate where I live onto the main road, one that's nice and wide and flat with good visibility and one on a hill, narrow and you can't see very far either side. GUESS WHICH ONE WE HAD TO USE TONIGHT. And it was Saturday evening rush hour traffic and pouring with rain. Ugh. It was awful. Every gear change was juddery, I rolled back on the junction, couldn't pull out for ages (even when a lorry driver stayed back for me) and then once I'd dropped them off I had to pull out into the road again and couldn't see a bloody thing and missed about four opportunities and got beeped at.

Last time I gave my dad a lift on his own I nearly ran over some poor woman on a pelican crossing because I was so busy trying to drive steady and at 30mph and not mess up my gear changes. They must wonder how I ever passed.

Excuse me while I go drink some wine. I shouldn't let this sort of thing bother me so much :( I drove all the way to my new job and back today with no problems whatsoever (about 12 miles each way) and normally I tootle around fine. Stupid modern world and its stupid cars.