5/05/2005 08:15:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

I had a driving lesson today- about my 40th. I'm still not very near to taking my test, but I'm "getting there". The driving lesson itself went well- I didn't make any major mistakes, just didn't anticipate stuff quick enough or something.

The interesting thing was that my driving instructor, who's a little bit of a sexist, racist, homophobe, when I got on to the subject of todays election, started on a rant that eventually ended up with him going on about how too many people are going to University for pointless reasons, and not learning a trade. When he found out that I'm going to be doing politics (for you pedants, I know its International Relations & Globalisation, but they're much the same thing), he started to rant on about how I'm leeching off of the system and wasting my life, and just avoiding work. All completely true.

"But all the money I'm getting is through a loan"
"And you're going to pay back every penny you get?"
"Yes"
"..."
I should have said "Pwned".

"You'll never be a politician", he claims, destroying all of my dreams and aspirations in one go. I'm just glad he didn't say, "you'll never drive!".

|||111532176803477324|||Having my life dismantled whilst driving