informal lesson

Step out of the car, leave the key in the lock. There is a steady beeping sound, because the door is open and the key is still in the lock. Perhaps this is a system to prevent the users of the vehicle from locking themselves out of the vehicle with the keys still inside.

Go over to the other side of the car open the door there. The son is inside the car and has changed over to the drivers side.

Explain again how to release the clutch and press the accelerator. He does all these things and the car begins to move.

Tell him to depress the clutch and to press the brake.

The car stops with a jerk, he did not realise that, unlike the brakes on his bicycle, the brakes on a car are sudden and powerful. 

We laugh.

Then he does it again.

This is first informal driving lesson.

On a Monday, on a quiet, disused stretch of road.

And we continue for a few hours