Its the kind of thing that you always knew was going to happen - like the sun rising in the east. You get so used to it that you just don't think about it anymore, you just know its going to happen.
Unfortunately, I never truly planned for this life event, so when the time came, I was a little unprepared. I guess I really didn't think it would happen, sort of like you never expect to grow old and lose your hair (been there, done that).
I had been telling my little girl for weeks that she needed to prepare for the test in the same way I had, 27 years ago, by reading the book. But, as she says, "in this century, everything's online." So she just kept taking the practice tests, and that, apparently, was enough, because on the morning of February 4, 2012, the state of Maryland saw fit to issue my precious little girl a learner's permit.
She finished the morning with a big smile, eagerly awaiting the next step. I finished the morning with the same sense of dread that condemned criminals felt before Tiberius fed them to the lions.
Immediately afterwards, I drove her to the parking lot of her school and gave her first lesson. She did well. Maybe I don't have that much to fear.
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