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My first in about an hour
I'ma bit nervous
I'ma bit nervous
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I've driven in Lebanon. Driving there is hectic.
LOL
That's brilliant!!
What an idiot!
:D
That's brilliant!!
What an idiot!
:D
Not the frisbee!
An interesting tale:
My mate was convinced he'd passed on his first test (BTW they say people who pass second time rather than first are better drivers...not sure why...) and he took his test. Unfortunately he failed it. The significant part of the story is when he took his test the second time; he was driving towards a four way junction and he thought he could beat the traffic lights. So he started accelerating slowly just as the traffic light turned amber. Instead of slowing down, he had a sudden and temporary loss of reason and sense, and put his foot down with the belief that if he beat the lights he wouldn't fail. The trouble is, he didn't know that he was now doing over 45mph! AND he didn't beat the lights - they turned red before he'd got through. The examiner dual-controlled him and he came skidding to a dead standstill IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNCTION! All the cars around him were beeping him and drivers were furiously shaking their fists at him...and worse.
My mate didn't just fail his test - the examiner gave him a "D" for dangerous driving and he was banned for a year before he'd even started driving!
The story did end on a happy note - the third time he took his test, he passed....
An interesting tale:
My mate was convinced he'd passed on his first test (BTW they say people who pass second time rather than first are better drivers...not sure why...) and he took his test. Unfortunately he failed it. The significant part of the story is when he took his test the second time; he was driving towards a four way junction and he thought he could beat the traffic lights. So he started accelerating slowly just as the traffic light turned amber. Instead of slowing down, he had a sudden and temporary loss of reason and sense, and put his foot down with the belief that if he beat the lights he wouldn't fail. The trouble is, he didn't know that he was now doing over 45mph! AND he didn't beat the lights - they turned red before he'd got through. The examiner dual-controlled him and he came skidding to a dead standstill IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNCTION! All the cars around him were beeping him and drivers were furiously shaking their fists at him...and worse.
My mate didn't just fail his test - the examiner gave him a "D" for dangerous driving and he was banned for a year before he'd even started driving!
The story did end on a happy note - the third time he took his test, he passed....
I know what you mean about steering. Nobody really does drive like that!
I'm sure that even my instructor drives nothing like that....
But all you have to do it move your seat back a bit, tilt it forward, and then position your hands and quarter-past, and quarter-too. I found that to be much better.
Heh, I felt like such a spack in my first lesson. He gave me this round frisbee ring thing to practise it with before I could use the wheel.
I'm sure that even my instructor drives nothing like that....
But all you have to do it move your seat back a bit, tilt it forward, and then position your hands and quarter-past, and quarter-too. I found that to be much better.
Heh, I felt like such a spack in my first lesson. He gave me this round frisbee ring thing to practise it with before I could use the wheel.
I took my test before i started Uni and failed it on mirror-bloody-signal-bloody-manouevre. Damn it! That was before the written test came into force. When i was at Uni I was too skint to do it so I guess i better get round to sorting it out now...
The worst thing is the way you have to turn the wheel - hands fastened at the "10 minutes to 2 position" and turning the wheel like a complete muppet! NO-ONE drives ike that!
The worst thing is the way you have to turn the wheel - hands fastened at the "10 minutes to 2 position" and turning the wheel like a complete muppet! NO-ONE drives ike that!
I had my first Driving Lesson on Tuesday this week, and I've got my second-one booked for this-Tuesday-coming (after the weekend).
My first-lesson didn't go too-badly.
The first 45-minutes of it made me glad it the first is always free, as all he did was show me what-did-what within the car (a white Diesel Polo), most of which I already knew (by stating the obvious)! :P
But after that, within the last-10-minutes, it was time for me to drive.
I cacked myself when he told me to go, as I wasn't expecting to get the chance to drive within only my first lesson. But it went quite well...
I reved-up the engine, and "shot"-off at a speed of only something like 10-miles-per-hour. We only went about 100-yards or something, but it was enough for me to p-someone-off behind me in a big people-carrier who was looking to over-take.
He said I did well though, especially for my first-ever time in the driving seat. And I must admit, that I handled those corners well, if I do say so myself, and I stayed in to the left well, and didn't stray-off to the right, or anything. Maybe if I'd have gone faster though...
More driving next-time, when I'll be doing more "stopping and starting", aswell as some turning round corners.
Only problem is that my mum won't let me use her Ford Focus to practise in. Not yet anyway. :(
I really wish I had started driving last-Summer, when I had the chance!
My first-lesson didn't go too-badly.
The first 45-minutes of it made me glad it the first is always free, as all he did was show me what-did-what within the car (a white Diesel Polo), most of which I already knew (by stating the obvious)! :P
But after that, within the last-10-minutes, it was time for me to drive.
I cacked myself when he told me to go, as I wasn't expecting to get the chance to drive within only my first lesson. But it went quite well...
I reved-up the engine, and "shot"-off at a speed of only something like 10-miles-per-hour. We only went about 100-yards or something, but it was enough for me to p-someone-off behind me in a big people-carrier who was looking to over-take.
He said I did well though, especially for my first-ever time in the driving seat. And I must admit, that I handled those corners well, if I do say so myself, and I stayed in to the left well, and didn't stray-off to the right, or anything. Maybe if I'd have gone faster though...
More driving next-time, when I'll be doing more "stopping and starting", aswell as some turning round corners.
Only problem is that my mum won't let me use her Ford Focus to practise in. Not yet anyway. :(
I really wish I had started driving last-Summer, when I had the chance!
Well, unfortuanatly on my first test i approached a junction that had a bread van parked on the corner, i couldnt see past the van after i got to the white line so i exited the junction with only a vague idea of what was coming from the right hand side. I would have came out of the junction in front of another car had the examiner not intervened with the dual controls. Other than that i finished with only 5 minor faults.
I just wished that the shop wasnt taking a bread delivery at that time, then i would have been ok.
I just wished that the shop wasnt taking a bread delivery at that time, then i would have been ok.
Did you fail badly the first time?
My 2nd test is on saturday. I hope to god i pass this time, or i will look like a right twit.
Argh
I have never even tried to drive a car before and about 10 mins he goes
" Aye right take us off "
Then I stalled it a few times... then thought I ruled before I tried my turn where I forgot to indicate and hardly turned... then I turned onto the wrong side of the road. After 5 mins though I was fine and then he took me out to a bloody roundabout:
" Is it safe? "
" I don't know is it? "
" Aye there nae cars comin "
I still ruled though and managed to change gears and stuff out on the road
Shaba
I have never even tried to drive a car before and about 10 mins he goes
" Aye right take us off "
Then I stalled it a few times... then thought I ruled before I tried my turn where I forgot to indicate and hardly turned... then I turned onto the wrong side of the road. After 5 mins though I was fine and then he took me out to a bloody roundabout:
" Is it safe? "
" I don't know is it? "
" Aye there nae cars comin "
I still ruled though and managed to change gears and stuff out on the road
Shaba
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