Failing your driving test.

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!

OTM. Just never take the test and there's no risk of failing it! Been driving for yonks.

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.

One of my best friends failed her first test because she braked for a squirrel.

That kitten excuse is great. I'm gonna remember that one in case I ever get pulled over.

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.)

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!

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.

"Which button for the guns?"

I'm thinking I got to be at work/band practice/boozer and ain't got time for triflin' nonsense.

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.

Failed the practical first time in July (on things like 'overcaution' and 'undue hesistation') but passed down in Tunbridge Wells (there were no free retest dates in Greater London for 4 months+) in September. And yes, we've had an unfortunate coming together with a bus since, but generally she's pretty confident despite the deluge of information (sometimes seemingly contradictory) you get thrown at you at UK intersections. I will probably never drive on London roads.

i think driving test in the UK might be more difficult than they are in the US?

I actually failed my first test, because I changed lanes without signaling (and I did that to avoid smashing into a stalled car).