The AA driving school are thieves and liars.
They have a guarantee that if their driving instruction is below standard they will refund the cost of the lessons. This is a lie.

I had a man called Cliff. He wouldn't let me turn right, go faster than 10 mph, screamed at me for damaging HIS alloys if I went anywhere the curb and was generally a prize cunt. One day after being screamed at too much I asked to go home, I was feeling so nervous I thought I was going to be sick (being only a mini little girly teenager at the time). He told me he wouldn't be cheated out of money and that we'd sit there and do test theory questions until the lesson was over. We were in the middle of nowhere, he wouldn't let me out of the car and I was absolutely terrified.

What felt like hours later (but was probably only an hour, couldn't go over lesson times!), I got dropped back home. I called the AA as soon as I'd calmed down. They told me they'd get back to me as soon as they got the refund authorised. A couple of weeks later I hadn't heard anything and so called them back. Apparently, you only get your money back if the instructor agrees that the lessons were substandard.

Took me 5 years to get the guts up to get back in the driving seat, then only took me 3 months of weekly lessons before I passed first time.
(Nightviolet, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 15:33, Reply)