Learning While My Son Drives

So my son is learning to drive.

Boy is that an experience.

..
for him and me.

Anyhow, outside of the gut wrenching, dash board clawing, ear shattering reactions that I suppress with more discipline than I ever thought I could muster, I've discovered a few things.
1.

Other drivers extend much more grace than we believe.
We all tend to remember that one driver that acts the complete jerk.
My son has broken just about every official and unofficial traffic law and practice.
Sure there have been numerous people who have flipped the bird and yelled gross profanities at him.
But surprisingly countless more people have graciously gotten out of his way or waited patiently while he did a 32 point turn to get out of a parking spot.

2.
Watching your children learn and improve at what they do NEVER gets old.

I love watching him play guitar even though I don't particularly like a lot of the music he likes. But to remember how he struggled to grab a G chord and now seeing him rip through some scales with lightning speed is just great.
The same with the car, to watch his confidence and ability increase with each successive time he gets behind the wheel is great. Additionally the severities of my heart attacks decease as his driving skills increase.
No matter the many ways I try to prevent it, every time I ride with him, my heart suffers several ways. 3. His becoming more and more independent is great and upsetting all at the same time. It'll be nice to not have to be his chauffeur for every stinking event he wants to attend. But I'll miss those conversations we had to and from soccer practice. It's nice to see him make more and more decisions on his own.

But I miss knowing everything about his life.
It's nice to see him make his movements out into his own world.
But I miss the five year old little boy that would lie on my belly, place his forehead on my forehead, and sing the theme to Toy Story.
So anyhow, if you see a driver out there breaking some traffic law or cutting you off in some seemingly rude way; try to extend grace instead of anger. That driver might be learning to drive or just having a bad day. Now, for all you guys out there who ride along with their significant others while they drive, I have no idea how to extend grace under those circumstances.