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Yes I do! I thought that I'd failed the parallel parking because I chickened out and didn't angle back sharply enough - which I realized immediately after my first pull back - (also because that annoying orange cone meant that I was a foot farther from the curb that I'm used to, which threw me off) and finished my third pull forward with my back tire on the white line, but he had me keep doing the test. I guess that having a tire on the line doesn't give you enough points to fail the test, but that being outside the box does fail you. So I thought I'd failed, and then spent the rest of the test going, If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass. If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass. If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass . . . and apparently I did, because I passed. He had me worried for a moment there, though. It was the same examiner I had last time, and he didn't unfreeze at all and used exactly the same tone and wording to tell me I'd passed as he did to fail me last time.

But yes, I passed!
We went to get groceries after the test, and I parallel parked on a dime, right snug to the curb (in two pull forwards and two pull backs, thank you very much!). I'm really good at parallel parking, except when I'm nervous and chicken out on the angles. I have to be, since mom's street is so small that any car not right against the curb gets its mirrors hacked off.
And then I drove Isaac over to dad's house without an adult.


Observation for the day:
Like fencing referees, driver's test examiners should also be called Sir (or Ma'am), and being used to using Sir in fencing makes using it on other people less awkward/unusual.
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I got my hair cut. It's now what I consider short, although by Smith standards, it's still quite long (down to my chin in the front!). I cut off 12-or-so inches to donate to Locks of Love, but that probably doesn't help because no one really knows how long my hair is since when it's long I have to keep it in a braid almost all the time or face the Tangles of Doom. No pictures because I'm at my grandmother's house, also because I'm a lazy person and refuse to exert myself to set the time on the camera, smile, load the picture onto my computer and then online. I got it cut here because it's less than half as expensive as it is in the city, and I just wanted a really basic cut, which I felt it was unnecessary to bankrupt myself for.

In other news, I failed my driving test. I'm a good driver, darnit!, and I did a credible job parallel parking, if not an exemplary one. I also didn't stop at the correct spot at stop signs and failed to yield at the yield sign (can we say, "Miriam was so confused by that intersection she didn't even know who she was yielding to?"). I also fail at all things related to driver's tests. I was supposed to take it a month ago, then discovered the day of that mom, who I thought was scheduling it, didn't know it needed to be scheduled . . . and the best time we could get was yesterday. To make things better, there are NO times available, anywhere, before I go back to college. Which means that unless I'm lucky over Thanksgiving or Christmas, I'll have to pay another $15 to get my permit renewed (again). Other fun stuff included: both mom and I forgot checkbooks, and PennDOT only accepts checks and money orders. Luckily it's not necessary to pay for a driving test. And, there was only one examiner. There are supposed to be two, and the one guy was working like crazy to cover both slots. We only just got in before his lunch break (we thought he was going to take it before testing me, but then he didn't.). I had the wrong permit, the one that expired in 2006. I found the current one in my backpack today, but we had to pay to get a new one printed (and buy a money order), and by that time, the guy really had gone on his lunch break. Needless to say, I was in a really bad mood yesterday evening.
The only good point was that at least it didn't start raining until we got back home.

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