Transport Opinions

Pam Sue was bored; her supervisor had insisted that she take her vacation. She had too many unused vacation days and the company policy clearly stated that each staff must use up at least eighty percent of their allotted vacation days.

She was on a month's leave, and now it was only the third day. She was used to waking up early and rushing for the train; if the day was bright and sunny, she would ride her moped. Now she had too much time on hand.

Flipping through her magazines, she noticed an article about successful career women. They possessed admirable traits such as independence, persistence and prepared for mobility. Mobility - what a powerful word! So in order to be mobile, she must possess a car. Buying a car was not the problem – she needed to get a licence. So she decided to take car driving lessons.

She remembered the list of driving schools she had earlier collected for her supervisor. Digging it out from her office bag, she studied it and copied out a list of schools whose names sounded professional or well-known to her. She would definitely select schools that have special car driving lessons for women. She consideredphoning them for further details, but then information given over the phone was never complete or satisfactory. Pam Sue decided to visit the schools on her list. After all, she had so many days with nothing to do. Yes, she would visit them to check out their fees, standards of instruction, quality of instructors and of course, their professionalism.

The next few days, Pam Sue visited driving schools. The weather was warm and sunny, so she rode her moped. She was told that since she had no driving experience, she would require an estimated average of 45 hours of car driving lessons and 22 hours of private practice. At the end of her visits, she was unsure which school to enroll. Almost every school offered similar programs, though some schools offered discounts if she booked her lessons in blocks of 10 lessons or more. However there was none that offered exclusive car driving lessons for women only. After all, it would be one-to-one tuition; unless she meant she preferred a woman driving instructor. She decided to have a male driving instructor - at least a man would be less impatient with her if she should make any mistakes.Well, she would make her decision once she had looked through their instructor profiles.