Part 2 of what promises to be an amusing series of articles appeared in The Telegraph motoring section today. Ed Cummins, a 25-Year-old Telegraph journalist is learning to drive. He writes about it in an amusing way - at least I find it amusing. Some others do not. Part 1 is
here and part 2 is
here. I don't think he is being particularly honest about his lessons - he is playing it for mild comedy - which is fine by me - but some Telegraph readers don't seem to appreciate it - it's probably the same lot who complain about Alexei Sayle writing for The Telegraph. As I've mentioned before, I love the fact they get wound up. The first comment, by someone calling himself
cpf99, is actually very constructive making some good points about how Ed could have made more of modern teaching techniques and he also makes the obvious point that Ed is probably getting a freebie here in return for plugging The AA Driving School. After that, though, it's the usual Telegraph-reader-who-doesn't-get-the-joke fodder and one deluded person called
steveleeoflondon who wants us to believe that "When I was 10 I watched my dad carefully all the way to our holiday destination and worked out what the pedals did and how the gears work etc. When we got to the other end I asked him if I could try driving on the half mile long private road which formed part of our destination. I jumped in, adjusted the seat then drove using all the (4) gears, stopped, did a three point turn and drove it back and parked it. Easy." He'll probably tell you he went on be World Rally Champ and taught Lewis Hamilton how to drive. That's Telegraph readers for you.
