Tag: driving

I finally got a car of my own

The last couple of days I’ve been walking around with a big grin on my face. The reason for that is that my new car has arrived. It was delivered to work. Several of my collegues came out to look at it. The guy that delivered it must have thought it was a strange place when all those people came to watch one little moped car.

When it was time to go home, I was able to drive home. It felt wonderful and scary at the same time since it was the first time I ever drove a car like that. I had to drive a moped on my driving lesson, The last couple of days I’ve been driving around trying to get enough driving experience to feel safe.

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I have a driver’s license!!!

I never took the time to get a driver’s license when everyone else did. For a long time now, it’s been far too expensive and time consuming for me. In Sweden it’s extremely expensive. I wouldn’t be able to have private lessons so I would have needed to take a lot of paid lessons. So even though I have desperately needed one, I have had to postpone it. Then one day I had this idea about a shortcut.

I would get a license for an EU moped. That means I would only be able to drive a vehicle that can go up to 45 km/h, but then you can’t drive any faster than 50 in a town here anyway. The problem is that I wouldn’t like to ride around on a bike. Then there are these super cool moped cars. They look like a car and work like a care, but can only be driven at up to 45 km/h. Now I’m halfway there. I got the license this friday. Felt really good. Now all I need is the car. :). I want something like this:

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It costs about the same as a regular small car, but the difference is this one costs very little to use. I’m still trying to find out where to get one though. They aren’t that common here yet, but are getting more popular. When I get it, I’ll use it to practice my driving for the “real” license, and of course do the shopping and for our little outings.