my big fat cdl

so i got my cdl officially yesterday. it was a day without a whole bunch of fanfare or whoopdedoo... simply went to the roadtest site, skipped most of the formalities, the inspector was a friendly guy with an empty stomach who was racing through most of the official checking whether the hubs were leaking grease all over the brakes sort of thing and whether if we, for example, flip the bus, will the emergency windows open to save us from the rapidly spreading gas flames that were caused by the fact that we have an old oily rag stuck in the gas filler because we lost the gas cap? but hey, when you're giving a man a commercial driving license and you want to go get dumplings at the best chinese takeout place in town, why bother? anyways, i think that i did fine, no real lines crossed over anymore than they normallly are and no curbs scuffed... (ok, ok, except a little bit of one...). time to start driving on a big boys license with no fear nor guilt nor fear of failing a simple driving test.