FailedOn my third driving test, I turned right out of the test centre, reached a pedestrian crossing, attempted to run over a little old lady, was prevented from doing so by the examiner grabbing the wheel, then proceeded straight back to the test centre.
The drive home was very, very quiet. I've never felt such a complete failure.
What have you failed at?
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chthonic, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 10:21)
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Turning into my mother...My mum took her A levels in 1969. She started off doing music, history and English. Then her O level results came through and she'd failed O level history because the twunts at her school had sent the papers to the wrong exam board - everybody in her class had failed. She continued with music and English. Then she got married as soon as she turned eighteen to escape bastard parents and promptly had a nervous breakdown. She got a B for music and a D for English.
I took my A levels in 2001. I started out with music, maths and physics. Dropped physics due to a string of shite teachers none of whom lasted longer than a couple of weeks (it was a London comprehensive and there's a shortage of physics teachers - go figure). Continued with maths and music. Did music college auditions. Had nervous breakdown. Got an A for music and an E for maths. The maths grade was partly because the school lost one of my exam papers and also failed to inform the exam board that I had been running a temperature of 102 during one of the others.
Luckily I only needed two Es to go to music college, but that maths grade haunted me so badly I had to retake it. I got an A.
But it still haunts me because A levels got way easier since all that AS business started, so I'll never know if I'd have got an A with the old system. Bugger.
(, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 12:24, Reply)
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