My pupil today, Anabelle, had been working for the last few weeks on her roundabout approach speed. She was approaching so fast she was still trying to change gear, steer and look at the same time but today she cracked it and we had lovely planned mooth approaches with plenty of decision time.
As a reward we dicided to finish the lesson off on the Hollywood Bypass, a 70 mph road, which she handled well and really enjoyed.
On the way home the challenge was to keep to 30 mph after being able to go at a much higher speed and she was really proud that she managed it so well even though she said she felt as if we were walking.
We passed a speed camera that said "28 Thank You" and looked up to see an instructor car coming towards us with a white Audi gaining on it rapidly. I remember thinking "No you wouldn't....Oh you idiot" as the Audi, doing at leat 40+ mph, overtook the learner and was heading straight at us. I grabbed the wheel to keep it strsaight and emergency stopped as the white blur missed us by inches!
Now what is surprising is that my heart rate didn't even increase and I felt absolutely no fear in fact my initial reaction was to laugh at his bad driving.
So the question is have I being doing this job for too long and lost all sense of danger but still react extremely quickly....or am I just in the perfect job?
I hope it is the latter...
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