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Thais still doesn't have her license. Nor Sophie. And my oldest brother still doesn't, and he's like twenty-three.

But now I do, so I can publicly shame them to my four readers (three of which are themselves). And the other one's probably me.

One of the first times I ever got behind the wheel, I saw a bird on the side of the pavement holding a worm.

How cliché. And it wasn't even early in the morning. Clearly somebody didn't get the memo.

I was thinking about how unsuspecting the worm must have been - and whether a worm would even realise it was in danger. Maybe it thought it grew wings.

Sophie and I were talking the other day about sentience vs consciousness. Apparently sentience is awareness we are alive and ourselves, while consciousness means being able to think in the first place. Pretty much all animals have consciousness, but only humans (and maybe a couple of chimps - or apparently octopi are pretty smart, so maybe them) - have sentience. 

It's hard to imagine a worm as having either though. They're just slimy and soft, and I'm not sure they even have brains. So maybe, it just thought a very strong gust of wind came along. Or it suddenly evolved to levitate.

Anyway, I hit the acceleration instead of the break and almost hit a (parked) car. My mother made me get out of the car and swap with her because any further action from me might only make it worse.

My mother physically cringes watching me drive. As in, I saw her brace for impact as she covered her face from any potential flying glass in the inevitable crash.

I was going 20km/h. 

Maybe that's fair, though. As well as easily distracted, I'm also an extremely confident driver, because I think it's funnier that way. I regularly compare myself to the Top Gear guys. Not Hammond though, for obvious reasons.

She has said she will never let me on the highway in her car. Sigh. I have to get my own car before I'm allowed to race down the road at 100km/h, but I'd rather put my money towards more important things than a car, like Beatles paraphernalia or haunted dolls. 

There's this one cool F1 quote after this incident where some guy overtook some other guy in a dangerous fashion. I know that description doesn't narrow it down at all, but it's all I remember. The overtaker was saying that he knew it would be safe, and that the car in front would brake, because that car's driver's got a wife and kids at home. 

At first it sounds like a pretty cool quote, but it's actually quite crushingly depressing. Like "yeah, take that man, I've got nothing to live for!" 

But I guess we're always driving next to people like that, who don't really care if they crash or not. It's all the same to them.

But maybe not to me. Because if I die in a car crash, who will work on my Minecraft Batcave?