Story time:
The first time I took my driving test, the evaluator said ‘pull out of your parking space’, which I did very precisely, stopping at the street where the test started.
Then he said ‘turn right at this street’, so I did – and made the semi-truck coming down that road lay on his horn a bounce a bit to avoid hitting me. I failed before we even started.
I was so focussed on his instructions that I lost all situational awareness.
I took more classes, then spent a few years as a delivery driver, so I actually learnt to be a very good driver. But my first test was abysmal.
I pulled onto the wrong side of the road while doing a three-point turn. Like 3 or 4 times in a row. He was losing it.
BUT at the end, he dropped my license/learner’s permit into a slot in my dashboard (gone for good without removing the dash) and felt guilty. Pretty sure that’s the only reason I passed by exactly one point.
Slop :(
What is up with these AI generated “screenshots”? The smileys and avatars are all mangled. Is nothing holy to the slop generators?
Every comment has the exact same tone too
I got my license at the sweet young of age of 38. A year or two later, I got a job at the dmv. Everything in that post, and a lot of these comments, are fucking hilarious AND relatable.
As i tell people all the time, stay with it, your gonna get your license. (Ok some people I do tell them how to get a bus pass, but thats few and far between)
Where meme though?
I saw the screenshot on a meme site, so, meme? Whatever their definition of memes was, I am no meme expert.
No. Is a screenshot of a news article a meme when it gets posted to a meme site?
A meme requires recontextualization in some way.
Didn’t I do that?
Like the poster contextualised those posts, then I did a bit more? Or WDYM?
No, there is nothing that puts those post in a new context, nothing that twists or turns the meaning of the posts, no new perspective. There is only more of the same context added.
Sorry, this seemed to fit as well as many things posted here. Noted.
I came up to the first intersection, and an ambulance passed through the intersection. I paused, looked left, looked right, and once I determined it was clear I started up again. At the same time as a truck started on my left. The instructor slammed the brake, and I failed before the first instruction.
I think it’s hilarious that so many seem to fail the test now days. Does high school not require driver’s ed class anymore?
When I was a teen in the 80s, everyone got their licence at 16, some got a learner’s permit before that. Even kids whose parent’s didn’t allow them to drive still got it. Failing was unthinkable! You friends would have never let you live it down. Also, it wasn’t easy to retest, had to wait a couple of weeks. I think I knew one person that had to take it again.
Then ya got my young friend I taught to drive getting his license at 21. He failed twice in a row and Florida just lets you try again the next day. You don’t even have to leave the parking lot! One failed test was for not using turns signals because he thought they weren’t required in a parking lot. 🙄 And that’s after I lectured him to never miss on that.
The driving test has gotten significantly more difficult in many places in the U.S. because of teen deaths in auto accidents. My kids had a lot more required training than I ever did.
However, it depends on what country you are in. When I got my license in the U.K. close to 30 years ago, I had been driving in the U.S. for 6 years and driven close to 100K miles. I had been told it was more difficult so I signed up for some lessons. I took me 10 lessons before the instructor said I should attempt it. I still failed the first attempt but managed to pass on the second (fucking backing around a corner bullshit).
What was funny was I was legally allowed to drive with my U.S. license while I was working on passing my U.K. one. I drove myself to the test and back, including after I failed the test.
I was a teen in the 90s and high school did not require drivers ed. It was required if you wanted to get a license but it was summer school, and not everyone got their license. For reference, I grew up in a major metropolitan area.
I think we just hear about it more now, because people post stories they only told to a few people in the 80s.
For instance, I turn 55 this month and I failed horribly at first, but you’ve never heard of me.
Same age! Anyway, I think I remember one of my friends failing. One.
If you think this kind of thing is bad, you should have seen some of the turkeys who showed up in my group when I took my MSF course way back when. If you think a lot of people shouldn’t be driving cars, I suspect even more of them have no business being on a motorcycle.
Hello it’s me.
I took the MSF course three times to pass. :/
Imo, the MSF course is way too short. It’s a lot to learn in two days if you’ve never ridden anything manual. The first time I was just wayy too filled with anxiety and the instructor wasn’t overly helpful tbh. The company did not allow me to retake the class despite the website saying that they did.
The second time I took it, the environment and instructors were so much better. They made me feel a lot more confident and competent on the bike. When they saw that I was struggling with something, they would actually give me real guidance, not just telling me to “relax”. Their corrections actually made me miles better. But I still managed to fail the final test.
I was very frustrated, but that same company allowed me to retake the class no problem. I passed after learning what components on the test were worth what sort of demerits.
Look, when I learned to drive, I spent weeks in a driving course before I took a driving test. Two days for MSF is laughable in comparison.
I’m a firm believer that anyone can learn to be a competent car driver or motorcycle rider. It takes practice, anxiety mitigation, and not acting like a dip shit doing dangerous shit.
I think you misunderstand me.I wasn’t saying people shouldn’t be driving cars – we should learn to do as much as we cane can.
My point was that many of us start this ‘clueless’, but with support and humour we learn from each other.
