Driving Miss Crazy

Driving lessons are almost over now, just a couple left. And I'm still not sure if what I do everyday between 11 and 11.30 am can be qualified as driving. Dunno why, but I have this great fear of traffic. Since I moved from Jamshedpur to Hyderabad 15 years back, I just gave up trying to navigate anything on wheels by myself (with the honourable exceptions of trolleys at supermarkets and airports). Before that, in good old Jampot I was one of them kids that one sees zipping around on a cycle without a care in the world about those huge monsters called trucks and buses belching toxic fumes. But now, I believe in letting everything in sight go ahead of me, till the exasperated instructor has to yell at me: "Arre madam, road khali padi hai, aise ruk ruk ke chalenge to aap gaadi kaise chalayenge?" Sigh. What if i flunk the driving test? Double sigh!?!
On another note, someone gave me this giant bunch of lemon grass yesterday and have trying to look for some easy thai veg recipes where I can use it in. Not sure though if I would like to subject people at home to the result of the experiment. Sigh...when single, trying out recipes was so much easier. Even if it turned out to be a disaster, flatmates would happily volunteer to gobble it up and pretend to make lip-smacking noises. Ah, miss those days!!