― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
i failed my first driving test as the examiner had to slam the brakes on. still swear i could have made it on to that roundabout before the oncoming car.
passed second time somehow
― debden, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I just feel like a retard, having failed a third time.
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Sounds easy? I fucked it up royally, it doesn't give an indication as to whether it's recognised your mouse clicks, so it's tempting to click more than once for the same perceived hazard (which I did). I got 100% for the practical test itself but failed miserably on this one.
Took the wind right out of my sails. I sold my wee motor and haven't quit my lessons, and this was despite having been driving for months previously, long distances, etc.
― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I may have to get a car in the next couple of months. I'm really depressed about this.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I still reverse-round-a-corner, though, to get my car on the drive when I get home.
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
-- chris (cbrassic...), August 5th, 2003 1:37 PM. interesting.... he passed his theory test first time, but hasn't done a single thing about getting driving lessons, and apparently the waiting list for test dates is horrendous.
x-post I've heard nothing but bad things about the hazard perception test, everyone seems to have had huge problems with it
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
jesus the emotional mill of the driving test is so annoying, and having to go through it all again, the month of worrying about it etc, gah!
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM. Just never take the test and there's no risk of failing it! Been driving for yonks.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Poor Ronan. I failed twice and cried on my instructor the second time. I'm bloody great at parallel parking though, as I had to do this every day for a couple of years to get into our parking space.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
One of my best friends failed her first test because she braked for a squirrel.
― sgs (sgs), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
That kitten excuse is great. I'm gonna remember that one in case I ever get pulled over.
― sgs (sgs), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Emergency stops are compulsary too - the examiners's script was something like "when I tap my hand on the dashboard, stop as if a small child has run into the road". I skidded on mine, but it clearly didn't matter.
(also, I stalled the car on a roundabout Give Way line; but, as I did a textbook recovery from it, I didn't get failed.)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Here is my experience - my old Wolseley 1100, a really nice example in good cond. etc, I was driving it to work one winter, and being an inexperienced driver, I hauled on the brakes b/c a squirrel ran out into the road. I hauled on the brakes on an icy patch, the car spun off the road, and totally fucking smashed to pieces on a gatepost. I could have been killed, but I was lucky to be barely injured, all for the sake of a fucking fluffy-tailed forest rat! One of the stupidest things I've ever done!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I failed the first one. I did so well on the 3 point turn and parallel parking but messed uo right hand turns! The second time my instructor had pointed out all the tricky parts on the route before hand, so I got those, but I did mess up pulling out from parallel parking, and I was convinced I had failed.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
"Which button for the guns?"
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm thinking I got to be at work/band practice/boozer and ain't got time for triflin' nonsense.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
i remember going to driving lessons with my best friend and i was having no problem driving. when it was his turn i almost died. he was horrendous and still is to this day. all brakes....the instructor who was also our phys ed teacher had Tim make a right hand turn....of course Tim was going about 65 at this point and didn't hit the brake just turned right dukes of hazzard style. the instructor slapped him in the back of the head.
― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link