truly HUMBLING to do something as an adult that most 10th graders have already achieved without really thinking about it. Instead of being gracefully low key about it, I leaned into the indignity by making “novice driver” my whole personality for 10 months. I talked about it constantly, I loved bonding with other geriatric novice drivers ( the preferred term) and experiencing a rite of passage so out of step with my contemporaries.
