Choice C

 (C) Alison takes and passes the written portion of the driving test. Now she has a learner’s permit. It is time for her to learn to drive.

On a day off, Alison takes the wheel with her husband and now teacher in the passenger seat. They a parked in an empty parking lot to what once was a thriving mall.

“You should be able to handle this much better than Susie,” said Lee. Susie the Subaru had been their SUV. Now they had a smaller sedan type car. “You just press the button to turn it on. You don’t even have to put the keys in the ignition.”

Alison pressed the button and watched many lights turn on the dash and radio area. Lee showed Alison how to operate the windshield wipers, defroster, and blinker. Lee may have shown Alison other important details, but this story is written by a woman who does not know how to drive. So, please suspend disbelief and operate on the notion that Lee is a fine driving instructor and Alison learned many things.

“Put the gear in drive. See, it is the one with the D” Lee instructed Alison. Alison clicked the gear shift until it lined up with the D. “Now, put your foot on the gas pedal and drive forward. With unused parking spaces lined up on either side of them, a runway of parking lot stretched out safely in front of Alison. No traffic threatened her or Lee’s lives. Alison slowly pushed on the gas pedal with her foot. The car hummed. Alison increased the force of her foot ever so slightly. They inched forward. She pressed a little more. One mile per hour read the odometer. Two miles per hour, three four five miles per hour. Alison and Lee rolled forward along the parking lot.

“You can go faster.” said Lee.

You are God. You get to decide how this goes. If Alison drives forward, scroll to paragraph (F). If Alison wigs out, scroll to paragraph (H).