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I can see people failing our theory test once or twice because there’s some fairly obscure and specialised questions on there and maybe they get unlucky but 11 times is just lol, 80% of the test should be common knowledge or at least deducible if you’re not an idiot. Failing the practical test multiple times is far more understandable and common (although I passed first time, on my 18th birthday  ) and after spending three months sharing the road with suicidal stupid idiot fucker morons driving busted pieces of poo poo in the USA I’ll never again complain about our roads which are iirc the second safest in the world
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I failed my first driving test because my horn didn't work.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Back in 1996 I drove out of a parking lot in Joliet, Illinois. I made one right hand turn at a stop sign, one left hand turn at a stop sign, and then parallel parked. I've had a driver's license with no additional testing at all since then and my current driver's license doesn't expire until 2045. which one of the Blues Brothers are you?
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Presumably he's the one who makes the overpriced booze, because the other one is dead.
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Literally A Person posted:I failed my first driving test because my horn didn't work. You can get treatment for that now.
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Beachcomber posted:This reminds me of when there was a Something Awful pixelart town. Haven't even thought of that in years. I think the other guy posted the huge goon tower, although I'm not sure because wayback wouldn't load the image. But here is goonbase: 
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My dad got a pass due to the instructor being hungover from a wedding he was at the night before. During the test the instructor pulled over to throw up a few times, and asked dad to park and wait for 5-10 minutes for no reason. He passed him saying 'Don't tell anyone about this or you'll have to do it again'.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Back in 1996 I drove out of a parking lot in Joliet, Illinois. I made one right hand turn at a stop sign, one left hand turn at a stop sign, and then parallel parked. I've had a driver's license with no additional testing at all since then and my current driver's license doesn't expire until 2045. I took a left turn, a second left turn, parallel parked, did a 3pt turn, drove back to where I came from, passed with a near perfect score. I had no business being on the road and the first time I drove at night, I thought the "on' position on my headlights was actually the brights, so I drove around with my headlights off.
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Oct 25, 2019 15:29
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Literally A Person posted:I failed my first driving test because my horn didn't work. Me too The only time anyone asked to test it in my entire driving career No one else I know had to test their horn
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Oct 25, 2019 15:45
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About 30 years ago, my mum's instructor made her drive to some remote forest and suggested she could only get a pass if she had sex with him. My mum said her husband was a gangster (he was not) who would have his goons murder the instructor if he tried anything creepy with her. He believed it, and she easily passed.
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Paladinus posted:About 30 years ago, my mum's instructor made her drive to some remote forest and suggested she could only get a pass if she had sex with him. My mum said her husband was a gangster (he was not) who would have his goons murder the instructor if he tried anything creepy with her. He believed it, and she easily passed. My wife had a similar experience when she was learning to drive, the instructor suggested they drive to the forest to practice. She didn't go and instead got freaked out and to this day has not gone for her license due to never finishing her course.
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happyhippy posted:My dad got a pass due to the instructor being hungover from a wedding he was at the night before. That's amazing. Where was this? My driving instructor would send me into gas stations to buy cigarettes for him which he'd smoke in the car during lessons, exclusively using an Aim 'n Flame to light them. I was 15.
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Literally A Person posted:I failed my first driving test because my horn didn't work. dev286 posted:Me too You US guys do exams / lessons in your own car?  why? Why not do lessons in a certified car the driving school operates and do your exam in that as well? The gently caress kind of backwards thinking is first getting a car and then apply for a license? is this a Trump thing?
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It's usually your parents car
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I just found out i'm negative for a horrible genetic disease literally one of the best days of my life #blessedasfuck
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Qwezz posted:The gently caress kind of backwards thinking is first getting a car and then apply for a license? is this a Trump thing? Lol it's adorable when people from outside the US think every hosed up thing we've done for years is a recent, Trump administration decree
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Last Chance posted:Lol it's adorable when people from outside the US think every hosed up thing we've done for years is a recent, Trump administration decree You just want to pat them on the head and say, "Oh sweetie, the US has been this hosed up for decades."
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Calvin Johnson Jr. posted:I just found out i'm negative for a horrible genetic disease  That is loving aces brother.
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Qwezz posted:You US guys do exams / lessons in your own car? I failed my first time. Downhill park, turned the wheels into the curb. Except this was a Chevy Suburban, so when I took my foot off the brake, the car rolled over the tiny little curb. Automatic fail. If I was in a tiny little Honda it wouldn’t have happened. Absolutely bullshit.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's usually your parents car That raises even more questions. How is the driving teacher supposed to intervene when something goes awful? (heh). What qualifies your parents' car is worthy enough to be a 'learning driver' car? my driving school car had all the pedals duplicated on the right side for the teacher to intervene and even gave him his own rearview mirror. a handfull of times in my lessons he would slam the brakes or change gears for me when something went south. everything worked and if there were a technical malfunction it wasn't my fault. does that mean you don't have a huge "L" on the top of learning driver cars to indicate they are in fact Learning? so what do your examinators actually do? get in your provided car and hope/pray everything works in case of an emergency? How many Teachers/Exmaninators die in accidents because of faulty vehicles and/or the disability to interact with the vehicle they are in? Blessed; Calvin Johnson Jr. posted:I just found out i'm negative for a horrible genetic disease gently caress YEAH! 
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Qwezz posted:That raises even more questions. How is the driving teacher supposed to intervene when something goes awful? (heh). What qualifies your parents' car is worthy enough to be a 'learning driver' car? You don't need to go to a driving school to learn how to drive. As long as you have a learners permit (which you get by taking a written exam), you can schedule the test at any point. The idea is that someone with a car drives you to the testing location and use you that car. Plenty of people never go to a school and get taught by their parents. If you go to a driving school, then there will usually be a second brake pedal in the passenger's seat, but that's for learning, not the test itself. The driving school will also let you use their car for the test, but the person administrating the test won't touch anything at all. The test is usually in a location where it's unlikely you're going to murder anybody and you're probably not going to be going very fast anyway. Mine was on some back roads in a residential neighborhood, I didn't encounter a single car or pedestrian. The test itself measures your ability to take a test, not actually drive. It's horribly insufficient. Renegret fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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I literally ran a stop sign (well, it was hidden behind a tree, and I had an rear end in a top hat examiner). Finshed with a 76. 75 was passing. Never looked back.
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I went to a driving school, so the school drove me and another student to the testing site. On the other person's turn, they hit the gas and forgot to put the car in gear. Passed anyway.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:That's amazing. Where was this? Northern Ireland, in the early 70s.
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Failed my first driving test due to a single rolling stop at a stop sign. Which, okay, whatever. What really pissed me off though was the instructor saying "Alright, you passed" at the end. Then looked back down at his clipboard and said "Oh, no wait, you failed." gently caress you dude.
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When I took my driving test I drove to the DMV myself. I waited at the gate for the tester to get in and while I waited she was talking with another tester and I clearly overheard them saying "Just pass everyone so we can get out of here on time for once." I then proceeded to almost ram someone leaving the parking lot and generally sped. Passed anyway. Go america. With this in mind I'm pretty sure the best way to pass your test is to try and get an afternoon slot on a friday.
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I almost failed my test because a goddamn cat decided to run behind my car when I was trying to parallel park, but the tester didn't see it and thought I just sucked at parking. blessed spooky video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-S2F9rJ6A4
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Head 'em up Move 'em out Power stride And ready to ride 
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Careful there. Mick Foley lost half an ear that way.
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I failed my first test for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. Automatic fail for crawling along at 1mph. He told me right away but we still went through the rest of the test, and I did an amazingly poo poo job trying to parallel park. Fortunately they skipped that part on my second test and I passed.
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Hey, does anyone have a wacky story about taking a government exam decades ago?
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no just mundane ones
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sassassin posted:I failed my first test for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. Automatic fail for crawling along at 1mph. To quote the MA state police officer who gave me my road test: "Too many goddamn foreigners! If ya speak English, I'll pass ya." I'm a filthy immigrant
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:To quote the MA state police officer who gave me my road test: You laughed politely and tacitly acknowledged his racism as valid didnt you? DIDNT YOU?
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