Nav Driving School

My road test was scheduled for a Tuesday at 10 AM. I’d practiced for months in my aunt’s sedan, a comfortable old boat of a car I knew intimately. Then, two days before the test, her transmission gave a final, shuddering sigh. Panic, pure and cold, set in. I couldn’t use my instructor’s car—their policy […]

I still remember the smell of the plastic on my new learner’s license. I’d stare at it, my photo looking back at me with a mix of excitement and pure terror. The open road promised freedom, but the driver’s seat of my dad’s sedan felt like a cockpit of a spaceship. All those pedals, mirrors, […]