Driving test (and Humpty can get fucked :) )
My tester was an idiot.

Asked me to reverse park in a busy road, with parked cars on both sides. Someone who was an expert parker is going to cause traffic disruption here, and i'm (still) shit at parking.

Right, nervous. Pull up next to the car in front of the space and, ineveitibly, a coloumn of cars and white vans and taxis come the other way to find me blocking the road. I hesitate - there is a little layby thing just in front of me, I could get out everyones way and then do it.

I pause, wondering if I should move over.

'Carry on' says the tester, gesturing.

So I pull over into the layby.

Tester goes completely mental, yelling and jumping up and down, 'what are you doing, I told you to carry on, not go into a layby'.

Really, it was a bit embarrasing.

I explained that his instruction was ambigous and I'd misunderstood, but nah. Failed me.

So I wrote to the test centre and complained about the unprofessionalisim of the tester and his behanviour.

I got a letter back saying that my letter had really upset the tester in question, and he was really quite hurt by my comments and that I should really consider people feelings before writing such letters.

Apparently driving testers are like little delicate flowers.
(inflateable, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 16:31, Reply)