Silver Ball Interns Let Loose on the Roads

Our second week at Silver Ball PR started with bang. Quite literally!

After months and months of lessons I finally passed my driving test (whoopie!) and at nearly 22 it couldn’t have come soon enough! As I’m from Stroud, getting to the Silver Ball offices each morning and home each evening was proving rather a nightmare without a licence. Public transport ended up being a totally ludicrous option, with googlemaps estimating my journey time to be around 2hrs with changes at what seemed like every 2 miles! 

So, with my fluttering eyelashes and biggest smile, I approached anyone and everyone who could have driven me. Parents, boyfriend, friends, sister; you name them, they’ve been asked! However, their good will was running short with the Cheltenham rush hour traffic. Feeling more and more frustrated as we crawled along the A38, I’m sure they were just as ecstatic as I was on hearing the word "PASS". My driving test time flew by, and all the stories of horrid driving examiners were banished, mine was lovely! I passed with flying colours, and was ready to get behind the wheel.

A wheel however, that I was swiftly reminded to be careful with. Let me explain. On leaving work at 5 the roads were busy, and like Ellie I’m not from this side of Cheltenham. So when you don’t know the twists and turns of the country lanes, accidents happen. I’m sure you can guess the end of my story by now, but if not, who did I come across on my journey home… Ellie, a rather sorry looking Mini and a very angry taxi driver. 

I hopped out as soon as I realised it was Ellie in the car sprawled across the middle of the road and tried to explain to the now red faced taxi man that of course it was an accident. She was unhurt and understandably shaken up, but nothing too serious thank goodness; as she put it “a car can be replaced but I can’t!”

So my motoring tale comes to an end. We have one newbie intern on the roads, however driving around in a mint green Polo means I’ll be seen from miles around! We also have one intern driving round in a rather bashed car. So with our hair appointment at Stuart Holmes Hair and Beauty Salon booked for tomorrow, I wonder who will draw the short straw and be driving!?

Esther x