After a decade of misfires at various teaching jobs and an ugly stint in state government, Thomas Sullivan began serving as an instructor for the largest private Driver's Ed company in Oregon. He thought for sure this was it -- the launching of a career that would last until he was ready to put the brakes on his working life! He was going to learn all about the world of teenagers while having a blast doing it. Well, not exactly...
Life in the Slow Lane
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INTRODUCTION
I can't tell you exactly how I ended up teaching Driver's Ed. Maybe a sort of Car-ma was at work. We all make restitution for our past deeds in some way, and it just so happens that many of my life's relatively innocent crimes have involved cars. Like that winter day in Connecticut when I sat behind the wheel of our family station wagon, a cocky 15-year-old gassing the car in place on our ice-covered, uphill driveway about thirty feet from the garage door.
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