When I was 16 years old, I got a learner's permit to

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learn drive a car. I got the permit just before my family

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was going to the country for holidays , for I started

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practising driving on country roads. It must have been easy,

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since it wasn't much traffic on those quite little roads.

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One thing wasn't easy about it was that my father proved to

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be a very nervous teacher. “Not go so fast!”“Left!”“Right!”

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…were ringing in my ear all with the time. Finally I was

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ready to take my drive test. I started to put on my directional

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signal (信号) since I moved out, and then ignored (忽视) a stop

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sign at the first intersection (交叉路) I came to. Of cours, I

failed. I took a few driving classes after that and finally passed the test in London.