{"id":5529,"date":"2017-07-18T12:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workable-level.flywheelsites.com\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:59:23","slug":"my-life-as-a-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/my-life-as-a-passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Kayla Valera<\/a> | Staff Writer<\/h5>\n

In terms of getting around, I’ve only\u00a0ever relied on\u00a0being the passenger to one of my licensed\u00a0family members or friends. As a driver’s permit wielding college student, I have never felt the direct need to break this cycle in all my 18 years. This is mostly\u00a0due to my parents being protective of me and preferring to drive me to place themselves so that I don’t need to use public transportation. Even when I was old enough to obtain\u00a0a driver’s license, I found that it’d be more practical to simply carpool with my dad to cut back on the expenses of buying my own car or having to refill on\u00a0gas.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0my fellow Kapi\u02bbo News staff writer, Gavin Arucan<\/a>, I understand the struggle of making the hours-long commute from central Waipahu to KCC during the school year. This doesn’t include the stand-still traffic that can draw out the already long journey home. Because of this lengthy travel to and from school, I’ve grown accustomed to waking up as early as\u00a05 in the morning in order to get on the road\u00a0by 6:30 a.m., and then hitting the freeway by around 4 in the afternoon and getting home at around 6 p.m. This is a routine that my dad and I have shared ever since I attended middle and high school on a town-bound commute.<\/p>\n

Since my dad makes the trip to the opposite side of the island for work everyday, I never had to worry about driving to school and back home since car rides with him were always convenient for my schedule. The trouble, therefore, lies in my constant expectancy of a driver for other activities.<\/p>\n

In high school, for instance, I felt like a burden to my parents when they had to drive me to great distances just so that I can hang out with friends who lived far from me. Even now that I’m\u00a0in college, I still sometimes find\u00a0myself asking my parents to take me to places to see my\u00a0friends if it isn’t too out of the way for them. Luckily, I also\u00a0have friends who are able to pick me up and drop me off if my parents aren’t available.<\/p>\n

Though my friends\u00a0ask me why I’m not as motivated to get my driver’s license, I explain that I feel no\u00a0pressure to do so anytime soon. I tell them that I’ve created\u00a0a comfortable regime of getting a ride from my dad to school, walking 15 minutes or so to my workplace near school, and then catching a ride back home with my dad.<\/p>\n

Although this can sound restricting and monotonous for some people, I don’t mind not\u00a0having a car of my own to drive in exchange for some extra sleep on my way to school and going home. Worrying about parking\u00a0also isn’t an issue since I would just text my parents when I’m done with something and wait for them to pick me up at an agreed upon location.<\/p>\n

While not many people have patient parents that are willing\u00a0drive their child\u00a0to places\u00a0well into their child’s college years, I feel that people who are given this situation should try and make the most\u00a0of it for as long as they can. I know that eventually I’ll have to retake my driver’s test and stop\u00a0coasting off of my friends and family for rides all the time. Though for the time being, I don’t see the harm in\u00a0sitting in the passenger seat if I don’t absolutely have to switch to the driver’s seat yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kayla Valera | Staff Writer In terms of getting around, I’ve only\u00a0ever relied on\u00a0being the passenger to one of my licensed\u00a0family members or friends. As a driver’s permit wielding college student, I have never felt the direct need to break this cycle in all my 18 years. This is mostly\u00a0due to my parents being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}