Learning to drive
Coming out of Guildford, on a driving lesson (I'd had quite a few, not much interest in passing over that summer as it would mean that I would have had to be the sober one for some pub trips, and parents seemed happy enough to keep paying for lessons), and some posh bloke in a BMW is tailgating me. I, with my instructor sniggering next to me (he was worse for this sort of thing than I was (and still am)), was very conscientiously doing slightly under the speed limit*, right up until the traffic lights, where, with ninja like timing, I leave the BMW stopped at the lights just after I sail on through.

Since that was one of the main roads out of town, there were quite a few tailgaters, so I managed to make an art of it before I went off to uni.

Another example of the instructors sense of humour happened a few weeks after this, seeing one of him former pupils in the car behind at traffic lights, he decided to scare them a bit. He had only just got a new car, and didnt have the sign up on it yet, so knew he wouldn't be recognised. He told me to hold the clutch down, puts the car in reverse, and tells me to rev the engine. We both sit thee giggling like loons, and laugh even harder when we see the poor guy completely white faced as he overtakes us.


*I had been driving properly until the BMW came up behind, but since I wasnt slowing anyone else down by annoying him, and was in no particular hurry, I was told to slow down a bit to annoy him
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:19, 1 reply)

*click*
Reminded me of my driving instructor - also used to put the car in reverse when he saw an ex-pupil behind him.

I did get my own back recently though when I got a new car - spotted him and a student behind me at the lights...guess what I did? :)

Great instructor though - I'd pay him after the lesson and he'd give me £20 back saying "Go have a few beers..."
( snee held his breath since, Fri 18 Dec 2009, 10:40, closed)