Hope you enjoyed it, young aviator. I remember bowling up at XXXXX Airport on a Sunday after lunch in my school jacket and tie to begin my month-long PPL course courtesy of the RAF. I said to the CFI, 'When do I start flying?', expecting him to tell me about the weeks to be spent in ground school learning about the aircraft, aerodynamics, the weather, map reading, blah blah, before actually getting into the air. He pointed at a Piper Colt and said, 'That one will be ready at 2 o'clock'. And off we went. Wondrous! I never looked back. I never learned my checks, either! What a joint.