When I firs learned how to drive, I payed extremely close attention to all of my instructors. I attended a driver's education course-taught class at my high school at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Immediately following the class, we would break off into groups and pile into the driver's education cars that were parked outside where our instructors were waiting. Whether I was out driving with my driver's education instructor and classmates or whether I was cautiously driving my mom's brand new car around the empty mall parking lot, one thing was certain: I was paying attention to the details. It doesn't take long to develop bad driving habits, and even before I had received my learning permit to drive, I knew this to be true. I would watch as other friends' parents chauffeured us around from place to place. I would ogle over the fact that our bus driver was somehow able to move this incredible hunk of machinery that housed tons of rowdy high school kids with just the turn of a wrist. It was an entirely new world to me. Not everyone has good driving habits. In fact, I am going to go out on a limb here and wager that most people have absolutely horrible driving habits, born out of laziness or out of the fact that these habits were picked up by other unsuspecting drivers. It seems to be a somewhat cyclical pattern of bad behavior. Thins such as driving with one hand, not using directionals and tailgating all make my list of the top worst driving habits to have. For instance, when I was driving in the car with my brother a few weeks ago, I was shocked at how much his driving skills had deteriorated. Always known as being the better (and by 'better', I mean 'safer') driver out of the two of us; here he was tailgating people like crazy! On top of this, my brother's car is a tiny car, which just makes me cringe because if something were to happen and he were to get into an accident, he wouldn't have much room for failure. My brother isn't the only person who tailgates other drivers though. It seems that this is a recurring pattern in most of the family members on my father's side. It was all I could do to not ask my aunt to pull over so that I could drive for her a couple of months ago when the front bumper of her car (literally) was almost touching the rear bumper of the car in front of us. And to add insult to injury, we were on a highway coming back from Charlotte, and the only other car in front of us was the one that she was tailgating! Tailgating will not make the person in front of you go any faster. On the contrary, whenever I see people tailgating me, I tend to slow down because their distance makes me nervous for when I have to eventually stop for a light.
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