Your memories from driving lessons

I remember on one of my first lessons we parked up somewhere, my instructor pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of his last instructor car... A total write off after (IIRC) being in a collision with some woman at a junction who was on her phone and didn't see the traffic lights were on red.

When I was still relatively new to roundabouts there was a moment when I didn't pay too much attention to traffic on the right as I was so focused on getting the gears and everything right, so I basically ended up rolling onto the roundabout without checking properly. I panicked, stopped(?!), and scared my instructor to death when we saw that a lorry was heading towards the car. Took him a second to realise what was going on because thankfully the way was clear to start with so I was fine to carry on. I don't think I've ever pulled away quicker than I did when I saw that lorry! I was a bit of a mess for the rest of the ride home but my instructor handled the situation like a pro. He didn't get mad in the slightest and was so nice about it all. Anyway, after that my fear of driving wasn't that bad and my progress started to pick up a lot. I still wouldn't recommend stopping on a roundabout though.