Right you lot...
I'm a bloody idiot!
I went to turn up for my 3rd driving test today and completely forgot my counterpart to my licence! Epic fail.

So, I failed the first time due to stalling it twice (nerves).
Failed the second time for going 32 in a 30. (d'oh).

How (was/were) your driving test(s), did you get failed for a stupid reason? Were the examiners cunts? Make me feel better b3ta :(
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:01, 33 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The first time I failed for not looking in my left mirror when turning right at a roundabout.
The examiner was the creepiest dick I've ever met. The second time I passed with five minors, breezed it and loved every minute. Better luck next time :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:05, Reply)

Ahhh
They really aren't very nice. What a twat.
I'm just hoping I get an examiner that's nice and chats to me to make me feel at ease. The other two were complete and utter twats.

Arse.
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:07, Reply)

My second examiner was a legend.
I was completely at ease with him.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:15, Reply)

I thought I'd try the low cut top and short skirt route
didn't go down too well.


all lies. I passed first time. had to though because every other member of my family had and I wouldn't have lived it down.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:07, Reply)

For a clever chap you really should know better.
I passed first time, but I was in my late thirties.
( girlinthehole, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:07, Reply)

Haha, I should
The problem is that I would've passed first time as technically stalling twice isn't a serious, but I couldn't appeal.

That then put the shit up me for the next time, and stressed me out... so i just lost my head :(
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:08, Reply)

I've failed three times and was told by my ever-supportive father that I should "just give up".
The first time, I should not have been put in for it, and clocked up 17 minors and three majors, plus denting my instructor's hubcap.

The second time, I reversed far too tightly around a corner and bumped the kerb.

The third time, I reversed around the same corner and, remembering what had happened last time, went far too wide and the examiner refused to acknowledge it. Cunt.
( Maladicta, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:10, Reply)

ack!
That sounds awful. I hate nerves :(
It fucks everything up
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:12, Reply)

I had Teh Fear the first two times.
The third time, I'd ingested about half a bottle of Bach Rescue Remedy and by the time I'd got round the corner I really didn't give a shit!

Theory's expired now, and I can't afford to retake it or run a car anyway :(
( Maladicta, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:18, Reply)

You say "cunt"
but, to be fair, people who aren't safe drivers shouldn't be allowed on the road, simple as that. No offence like.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:16, Reply)

No, i 100% agree with you.
The first time, I shouldn't have failed, I stalled it, put the handbrake on. Car was completely safe.

The second time, I went 2mph over the limit, I can accept that. My fault but what the examiners didn't need to do was to put me on edge and to be rude to me.
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Just to be devil's advocate here for a minute...
Driving for the rest of your life will offer its fair share of challenges. Your moods will differ, there'll be other people in the car, kids, shouting, satnavs, phones, distractions, whatever.

If the examiners decide to put lots of pressure on you, does that not mean a better quality of driver passes in the end?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:23, Reply)

Heh, I know where you're coming from dude.
I've failed, I've got to accept it, of course.
I still don't think that the examiner should make you feel like shit though. I'm being tested on my ability, not how well I perform under stress, there are advanced courses for that ;)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:27, Reply)

My point is, you'll definitely have more stress in your future driving life than one shitty examiner.
Anyway, I'm off to bed with a laptop and Hellboy 2 - good luck with that next test :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:33, Reply)

The problem is, there's nothing wrong with my drive normally.
It's the one thing that I can't do well, simply because I'm infuriatingly little and as soon as I twist around to see out of the back window, my foot comes off the clutch.

Also, I was told that if it looks like you've cocked it up, you can ask to have another shot. The examiner told me "well, I don't think you'll gain anything from that, drive on".
( Maladicta, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Passed first time
with a couple of minors flagged up.

Also did the theory test in about 3 mins and got one wrong
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Passed first time, at 17
Thing is, about 5 minutes into the test I did the reversing-round-the-corner thing and the examiner made some sarcastic remark about my abilities so I was convinced that I'd failed and did the rest of the test in "Oh well" mode.

Mind you, that's over 23 years ago (although it's very vivid in my mind and I still know the date - 3.3.86) so things may have changed.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:20, Reply)

Arg!
I really wish I had an examiner that'd even talk to me!
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:21, Reply)

I passed my PSV (bus driving) test
On Christmas Eve 1992.

It was freezing cold, the examiner was a mate of mine (we both knew he was booked to test me a week beforehand) and we both just wanted to go home.

I could probably have crashed through an orphanage wall and still passed.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:26, Reply)

There are some times...
Where I must hate you unconditionally. Now is one of those times :P
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:27, Reply)

To be fair
I did go through the full test and didn't do much wrong really.

Thing is, we had an elderly Leyland Leopard with a knackered heater for the test and by the end of it we were both half-frozen.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:40, Reply)

I had similar
Thought I'd screwed it up totally on the way out of the test centre so chilled out and ended up passing first time.
(bill, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:51, Reply)

I passed first time
but then that was when I was 18 so it was 16 years ago, before the theory test and I swear it was easier then.

You shouldn't have failed for stalling provided you re started safely.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:31, Reply)

That's what I told my instructor. He agreed.
As soon as I stalled I put on the hand brake. Restarted the car but nooooooo :(
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:32, Reply)

I failed the first time
going back in to the test centre, after having collected a mere two minors. At the crossroads 30 seconds away from the test centre I was sat in a queue at the traffic lights, about 10 cars back. Lights go green, the cars shuffle off about 10mph and turn amber as I approach, so of course I slam on - I don't want to be failed for going through a red, and figure it's safer to stop. However, the boyracing twat behind me was right up my trumpet and barely stopped in time, and the examiner failed me because *he* nearly drove in to *me*. But he would have failed me if I'd run a red, too, and when I pointed this out he told me not to be obnoxious, and that I'd never pass my test with that kind of attitude, his word was final etc etc. Cunt.

The examiner I had the second time was much nicer - I fucked up the reverse round the corner because (yet again) some boyracing twat appeared out of nowhere and started beeping and hurling abuse because I was holding him up - but she calmed me down and told me to try it again. I resigned myself to failing a second time, but when she told me I'd passed I actually burst out laughing and asked her 'are you sure?!'
(berk, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:35, Reply)

That really sucks
But at least you passed the second time *sigh*.

I think they need a certain attitude to be able to be an examiner. Its not nice getting someone that really doesnt give a shit.
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:59, Reply)

It is sooooo much harder to pass nowadays.
I think you should get tested every five years or so. It would stop people falling into bad habits as I have already done.
( girlinthehole, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:35, Reply)

I agree with you...
... but also I couldn't deal with the stress to be tested every 5 years ;)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:58, Reply)

I drove over a roundabout.
Well on one of the last lessons before my test I went round a mini roundabout, one of the ones that is painted in the road, and the instructor said "you can drive straight over them when they are just painted like that".

So during my test we get to one such roundabout, and remembering what my instructor said I drove straight over it.
Little did I realise that it was not painted in the road but a bump. Gave me and the examiner a bit of a shock!

Still passed though
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:54, Reply)

Wow!
My friend failed for this.

these days, if you go over a painted roundabout more than 1/3 it's a serious and off you trot.
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 20:57, Reply)

Well like I said
back then they'd let anyone pass.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 23:12, Reply)

I passed mine first time, just a few years ago
despite* being so nervous my hands were sweating and I slipped off the gearstick and smacked the examiner in the thigh, twice, and spending the duration of the test with the windscreen wipers on (on a dry day) because I switched them on instead of the indicator and was too terrified to try and switch them off again. (I was confused - I'd had lessons in four different cars in the preceding few weeks: my own automatic 20year old Carlton, my instructor's little dodgem of a car, another dodgem belonging to my fill-in instructor when my first instructor went on holiday for a month, and then yet another dodgem when a tree fell on the first one).

*or perhaps because
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 21:14, Reply)

I passed mine first time
Despite punching my instructor in the leg. He was fat, and overhanging the seat.

I also came round a corner on the bypass doing 60, only to find a car stopped broken down in my lane. Hmm.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 22:24, Reply)