How did I celebrate? My friend and I got our baseball gloves, and we played "catch" in my back yard on a warm spring afternoon..
It took me a month to get behind the wheel again. My first "alone" trip was to Penn State's library in Dunmore because I wanted to work on a project in a real academic setting-- unlike what I had in high school at the time.
My confidence level wasn't the highest. I thought the test course was too easy and it wasn't a true way to challenge my driving abilities. My instructor thought I was good, and I should have been happy with that. On the way home, he gave me a talk about responsibility behind the wheel, and I've never forgotten that. I was lucky. From a drive to the mall yesterday, it appears very few people got the "responsibility" talk on license day.
