Help with Backing Up

Rice - maybe it's just the wording you're using rather than your concept. I just find it very insulting to have someone treating me like a trained monkey rather than an intelligent human. I would rather learn how to back up and/or spot(when to turn and why, etc.) than just be given directions and a "just do as you're told and don't think". I find that makes for a much more satisfactory ending. And it means I learn how to back-up/spot and can do it properly at another time. It also means I can more easily spot an idiot who doesn't know what he/she is doing BEFORE I start doing what he/she says.

Fortunately my dad was good about teaching me how to do things and explaining why I should do it that way - it made me a far more independent and capable adult.