26/10/2024
To the person driving past we are just a driving instructor. Nothing more, nothing less.
To our customers, we are driving instructors, people to off load to, people to ask advice from, share worries and have a chat. Sometimes we have to pull over and stop while a learner has a cry because things in the big wide world are causing them grief. Maybe they have family or friends who are ill, sometimes a family pet they love is ill, maybe their parents are splitting up, maybe they are being bullied in school.
Whatever you may think about instructors, you will never know the emotional dynamics going on with a student in that car, so give us a little time, a little space, a little consideration.
Who knows it could be one of your family or friends in that learner car next week.
Be patient be sympathetic, be adult about others trying to learn a new skill.