Run! Run to Kings Park while there's still time!

[sqbr]

Things you don't want to hear in the first minute of your driving test:
"It might work if you turn on the engine"
"No, I said left...Nng. Fine. I guess we'll have to do a different route then."

And then:
"You..haven't practiced reverse parking much have you?"
"So you do know you're supposed to look in your mirror before breaking, yes? Consider this a warning. From now on I will watch you like a hawk."
"So I make you nervous do I?" *starts deliberately clicking pen to make me nervous*

And then we got to the end, and all I had to do was forward park to the left, and I fluffed it so badly I had to do it three times to get remotely between the lines.

And then...HE PASSED ME ANYWAY!! WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

He emphasised several times to me and my driving instructor that I had only just passed and really need to work on various things but HAHAHA I DON'T CARE I HAVE IT NOW!!!

*dances the dance of joy*

(title refers to the license saying I'm not allowed to drive in Kings park for some reason(*))

(*)For those who got their licenses back in ze old dayz: I'm now on my L2s, and have to do 25 hours of supervised driving and then a stupid computer test to get onto my Ps. And apparently driving in Kings Park is up there with drunk driving and speeding for Things Learners Shouldn't Do.

Comments

[ilumiari.livejournal.com]

I got failed on the spot cause I only looked left at a rail intersection instead of left and right. This was a railway that had fallen into disrepair, hadn't been used for more than 20 years.

It's unfair how there are such differing standards on the test, examiners can basically make up their criteria on the spot. Good luck getting your 25 hours!

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, I think it'll actually make it easier to be a safe driver now that I don't have to try so hard to look like a safe driver.

Also, utterly off topic: I liked your answer of "exams" as a "challenge many other people do in november" :) And good luck with your health!

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

I massively agree with this post... I got automatically failed within five minutes of my test for not pulling out into a traffic light intersection while waiting for traffic to clear to turn right... I thought it was dangerous to do so, yet my sister passed despite driving over a curb on her way out of the dpi carpark.

The lack of consistency just means the practical test is essentially pointless because it lets bad drivers through (not saying Sophie is, but plenty of others could be) and is a massive inconvenience especially when a good driver* is failed and thus has to pay $$ and wait 4 weeks before being allowed to try again.

*I don't actually know if I'm a good driver or not given my instructor only let me drive for 5 minutes and gave me NO other feedback about my actually ability**

**Which really annoyed me because it seemed he just wanted a longer lunch break and I had paid not just for a "chance to pass the test" but for the feedback I would have gotten had I had a competent instructor... I think that even if you've already failed you should be allowed to complete the full test and get feedback if it's not dangerous to do so, since you have paid for it and it would prevent a-hole instructors being motivated to fail people by thoughts of long lunch breaks.