Failing your driving test.

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This is why I never got my proper license. I drive fine, but I hate being judged by strangers.
(ps, vote for me on HotorNot.whatever)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

I failed the first time, too. I was intimidated by everyone who watched me drive, which meant I couldn't even practice properly because I was always afraid of making stupid mistakes.

However, I managed not to screw up too badly on the second one and the instructor was very nice. She told me her only criticsm was that I hadn't "scanned" a certain intersection for cars until just before I passed through it. I realized this meant she had spent the whole drive making note of the motion of my eyes. If I had known she was going to do that I'd still be riding my bike today.

― brooke edel (brookedel), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

I failed the written one and the driving one the first time. I drove off with the handbrake on and he had to remind me of it. Then I turned left instead of right. then I burst into tears and he made me stop claiming I couldn't see the road. Then we had an argument about whther it was worth continuing the test.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

oops thinks it's OK to run people over if you're stoned and to shoot people and rape them and steal money from them.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

dude if you're really that bored, there's gotta be something else you could be doing.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not bored; I am righting wrongs.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

Awhile ago I almost posted: "I AM NOT ENDORSING THIS", but I gave people enough credit to assume that. Silly me.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

you're a bad man.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

O lord, forgive me for my sins, as well as those of people I have known

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

you seem sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

well that's all that matters.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

nah.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

there's that facial tic starting up again

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

I'll remove the tongue from my cheek now.

(weird xpost)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

dude if you're really that ticcy, there's gotta be someone you could be seeing.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

it would make a change from red

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

whoa, I bet.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

i failed my driving test twice but it had nothing to do with seeing red or facial tics.

― sand.y, Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

i took me a good couple of years of driving (esp in peak hour) to develop those

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

I am in the Dan & Maria class - the first thing the examiner said to me was "you have every bad habit in the book" before passing me. I was so astonished that I didn't hear a word he said afterwards. I think I drove badly/well/both because I thought I'd failed when I did an unscheduled emergency stop within 20 seconds of starting the test.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 7 August 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

just failed for the fucking third time. lost concentration and made one big fuckup literally 100 yards from the test centre, otherwise I would have passed. so annoyed right now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

First time I went for my license I drove on the wrong side of the road for a very short period. Just a wee bit embarassing.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

have the tests gotten more difficult? mine was a joke in 1991....basically it was make a left hand turn, park the car. great you passed.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry to hear that Ronan dude. chin up tho, you don't need a license for a golf-cart...

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

of course it was probably easy for me since i had been stealing my mothers car for 3 years before i even took the test.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

When my father went for his license, he walked into the police station (which was apparently where you got it back in the olden days) and they said to him, "What are you doing here? You've been driving for years" and handed it to him no questions asked.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ha! thats a great story.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i just realized i repeated my answer from above. im a fucking nerd.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i failed my cycling proficiency on a BMX after doing all sorts of stunts to impress the girls and annoying the bloodyminded northern examiner. then cycling in the wrong lane down a road. when the results were read out i started crying in front of everyone.

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

Proves you weren't making it up.

x-post

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

actually I don't even need a full licence to drive my car! I drove home after the test.

I just feel like a retard, having failed a third time.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

you'll pass eventually.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone taken the hazard perception test? That confused the hell out of me - 'click once when you anticipate a hazard but if you click too many times you fail' then it shows you out of a windscreen as the car is travelling along a road and if you see a bus or an old lady ahead, you click.

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 failed twice before I passed. I can reverse round corners really well, but I'm shit at parallel parking.

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 think I've parallel-parked *once* since passing my driving test - going out in my lunch-break a couple of months ago to buy clarinet reeds.

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

still haven't passed!
will (hopefully) be rectifying this this year

-- 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

i'm amazingly great at parallel parking (well.. adequately okay i mean).. near my house almost all spaces are parallel and some spaces are those crazy half curb half road spaces too so you have to mount half your car on the curb as you parallel park. fun.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Rumington, yeah my mate failed the hazard test thingy for the same reasons, she said it was a right bag of bollocks.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I find reversing around the corner fine, to be honest. Though 3 years ago or so when I did my first driving test that's what I failed on, cos I never bothered to get it right beforehand.

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

I'm a great driver, pity I don't have a license
-- Andrew Thames

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

Blimey, I'm glad I did the theory test when it was beta and really easy: all like showing you a 30MPH speed limit sign and giving you multiple choices over what it means.

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

It totally destroyed my confidence, I really enjoyed driving, I boned up for ages on the multi-choice bit, my instructor was delighted with my progress because I was gettign so much practice outside of lessons, but since failing the hazard perception, and having no clear idea as to where I went wrong, I don't feel I could ever confidently try to pass again.

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey Roxy, I was driving for ages but when Kev came along he nipped it in the bud. Too cautious is my man.

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost Although yesterday I did nearly murder a woman on the curb at Weigel's.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the penalties for being caught?

― Rumpington Lane, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i think in massachusetts its an arrest and fines.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

deffo arrest, and they delay your being able to obtain a license like FIVE YEARS. Happened to my sis, and they took her away in cuffs and everything.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

We laughed at her.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I fairly certain that the driving test is easier in the US than anywhere else.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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(I'm in a similar situation: haven't tried driving a car for actually 25 years now, from what I now know about panic attacks I'm pretty sure that I used to have one each time I got behind the wheel)

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

I mean I know that a person's shirt shouldn't be soaked through with sweat while driving a car but 19 year old snoball didn't have a clue.

― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link

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