And,
getting our acts together for her to take the test was not without
it's own set of drama. Kind of like everything in our lives. The
problems we faced were that both of our cars had slight issues that
were not a big deal in the actual performance or safety of the
vehicles, but were going to be an issue for sticklers who do
everything by the book. I can't say I blame them, and rules are
rules. For full disclosure I didn't know for a fact that these issues
would be a problem, I just assumed they would based on what I'd heard
from other people.
The
first issue was with mom's car, which has a crack in the windshield.
Total bummer, but not anybody's fault. It happened when she was on
the highway and a truck flung a rock at her. It hit her window
leaving a crack that was about a foot long. The window is perfectly
intact, though we are pretty sure that it won't pass inspection. It
is going to cost a few hundred dollars to fix, so we decided to sit
on it until inspection time, at which point we'll replace it. We
assumed that the DMV wouldn't allow A to take her driving test with
said windshield, which left my car.
Now my
car, of course, had a minor issue, as well. Modern cars have these
crazy tire pressure sensors, which make sense, except that (at least
on my car) they seem to break down. I've replace three so far, and
for good measure the fourth one finally bit the dust. What happens is
when the sensor dies the entire pressure sensing system dies and an
indicator light comes on. Technically it's not the end of the world
because you can just check the pressure regularly without the
sensors. The problem is that the indicator light on the dash will
raise red flags, and it won't pass inspection, which I assumed meant
it wouldn't be allowed for her test. The reality is, did we want to
take the chance of driving all the way over there only to find out we
couldn't use that car?
These
revelations really came to light a day before her driving test, so I
had to scramble to fix the situation. I actually had a new sensor
still in the package that I had sitting around. As I mentioned three
of them had gone down, so I had one on the ready, and it's a good
thing I did. It was late afternoon so we were pushing our luck, but I
called our friends at Tip Top Tire and they said they could fit us
in. I hurried over there, they put the new sensor in, and lo and
behold, we were good to go.
I'm not
a big fan of last minute drama before a big event, but we managed to
weather this storm. And A passed her test, despite the slew of
setbacks that threatened her driving independence. Kudos to her for
that. Now she's a driver, and me and mom have a whole new set of
things to worry about, but for now we're just happy that she passed.
Until
the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Muhammad Rehan for the pic.
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