I was a paper driver for over 10 years.

I am the type of person who immediately takes action on things that intuitively excite me or that I can concretely visualize the future that will result from doing them, but on the other hand, I am also the type of person whoWhen it comes to things that I can't envision concretely in the future, or things that are more anxious or troublesome than exciting, I will never do them at all costs.He is stubborn.

In the midst of all this, I've also long been a "I'm not a fan" when it comes to driving a car.NOI have been a "car driver" for more than 10 years. The reason is that as a paper driver for more than 10 years, I had nothing but anxiety about driving a car, and when people around me said, "It would be fun if you could drive a car," I felt that I wasThe image of myself enjoying driving a carI couldn't imagine the "Mere Old Man" at all.

It was not an overnight journey from that state to the present state, where I have awakened to the joy of driving and participated in a Porsche driving school in a MT car, and so on.After all, my husband was patient and persistent w, and kept pushing me.I look back and think once again, "I am a good person.

The Road to MT Riding

I enthusiastically got my driver's license (AT only) when I was a freshman in college, but in the 12 years since then I have only driven a car about five times. And one of those times, I scraped my car on the parking lot ticketing machine, so I was able to get a "Driving a car is difficult and scary.Time passed without wiping out the image of the company as a "good" company.

Even at the company I joined as a new graduate, my colleagues and seniors drove cars to sales, but I was told by my boss that

I can't let you drive a car because you're too dangerous.

and I was the only one operating by train, bus, and on foot.(I used cabs a lot, too.)

Also, after I got a job and started living alone, I chose a property near a train station.All travel to work and play is by train.I never felt inconvenienced by this lifestyle. I never felt inconvenienced by this lifestyle, and on the contrary, I thought I would never drive a car in the future because I was able to use my computer while traveling by train, which was very efficient.

Even after I met my husband, I had no interest in cars whatsoever, even though he was a car enthusiast, and after we were married, "IShould be able to drive a car.I didn't drive at all, even though my husband told me to.

Our cars at that time

However, after a short time after I became pregnant with my first child, my husband started to

I should be able to drive a car soon.And. Our house is in the suburbs, so we have to drive everywhere we go. What do you do if your child suddenly gets a fever and needs to go to the hospital? Do we call a cab every time? I really need to learn to drive.

I was told again and again.

."You're right, you're right, when you put it that way.I finally got up the nerve to drive my car to the local supermarket on weekends, but I was so nervous and stiff that I often had to let my husband drive me home because I was exhausted after just 10 minutes of driving.

Then one day. My husband left for work.

Today, Umeda(In the center of Osaka City)Pick me up at the airport."

I received an email saying.

."Eh, seriously, I've only driven 10 minutes to the local supermarket and I'm pretty sure I can't do it.I thought, "I'm sorry," and probably would have replied that way, but I couldn't say that forever, so I was prepared and decided to pick her up in my husband's car at the time, a Mercedes-Benz SLK, his favorite car.

I was extremely nervous on my first drive to Osaka City, but thanks to the fact that I was in an SLK, which was clearly a sports car, I was not forced into a corner and was often asked to change lanes, so I managed to make it to Umeda.

Here is a picture my husband took at that time.

My wife picked me up at Umeda for the first time. It was my first long ride driving alone."

I mean, you can't park in the middle of the road like this (-_-) this is not good....

Nevertheless, this gave me confidence, and since then I have been driving a little more often. Finally, last year, I finally attended a Porsche driving school in a MT Boxster, and my husband wrote on his social networking site

I came to visit a driving school that my wife is attending. My wife, who had no interest in cars when we first met, has come this far in driving a manual transmission car.

He wrote.

On the trust of German cars

My husband never forced me into the car hobby, but every time we went for a drive together, he would say, "Let's drive, let's driveI've always said, "I'm not going to be able to do it.

To be honest, I was persistent (laughs), and every time someone said that to me, I said, "No, I don't need to be able to drive a car!" and I had refused hundreds of times.You should definitely be able to drive a car.The husband's belief that "the world is a better place than it is today" never wavered. Also.

German cars are really different from domestic cars. They are very stable on the highway, easy to drive, and absolutely safe.

He used to say, "I'm not a car person," and sometimes, with rough treatment, he gave me the opportunity to get into cars.

Indeed.The first time I drove the SLK on the highway, I was amazed at how stable it was.I was allowed to drive such a car, and perhaps it was because I was allowed to drive such a car that I gradually learned to trust the car and to drive it.

Well, then, I wonder how my husband has been so persistent in telling me to drive. In this regard, I would say that my husband's sales efforts over the years have paid off handsomely.

I have previously published an article titled "You didn't give up, you persisted.When I say, "That's right, we're serious.My husband responded, "I'm not sure I ever expected to go beyond driving a car to writing a blog about Porsches.(I didn't even imagine w)

I hope to continue to open new doors, not only in car life, but also in the future, keeping my curiosity alive as much as possible.