A few tips for those of you who are soon going to be taking a drivers test and some comedy for those of you who have taken it…
1 When you get in the vehicle take three deep breaths; in, out, in, out, in, out.
2 When the examiner gets in the vehicle touch your mirrors and make sure they are adjusted correctly just for his benefit.
3 When you back up do not look through your mirrors but look over your right shoulder even if you are driving a van… grrrr.
4 If you should be asked to turn left onto a four lane road, please turn into the left lane not the right… bad habit.
5 At a stop light even if you have the right of way, look both ways just in case someone should run the red light; and be rather exaggerated about it just for the examiners benefit.
6 Be sure to study lots on the different ways of parking before you take your test so that you at least have some idea how to parallel park and please remember which way to turn your wheels when parking on a hill… ahem.
7 As I said earlier, look behind your right shoulder when backing no matter what… you may look behind your left for a moment, but not to long.
8 When turning please remember to hug the right turn and swing the left turn. Not hard.
9 And last but definitely not least, PLEASE, no matter how nervous you are, DO NOT run the stop sign… as I did… Ow that hurt.
If you are wondering if I am telling you out of experience, then the answer is yes.
My first drivers test, I turn into the right lane instead of the left on a four lane road (I have the parents to blame for that one though… hehe), I didn’t exaggerate my looking both ways for the examiner, so he took it that I didn’t look, I completely flunked the parallel parking, I forgot to turn my tiers when parking on a hill by a curb, I didn’t look behind my right shoulder when backing (course I couldn’t see a thing when backing in that big, clumsy van anyway) and last of all I ran a stop sign… Ow that hurt.
So these are some things for you to consider and hopefully remember in the future.
The examiner did not quite agree with the S.T.O.P. meaning that I gave him…
Slightly Tap On Pedal, but he took it very well!
Humbly yours,
Most aggravated Sweetpea
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Drivers test #2
This is going to be rather short. I have one more thing to add to my first drivers test list:
10 Endeavor not to bump over a curb… especially with both wheels.
Yes, sadly and MOST UPSETTINGLY I did not pass my second test simply because I bumped over a curb in the van… right from the start.
I was not nervous this time, however the examiner (he was a different one this time) seemed to be the nervous one.
He had to ‘end the simulation immediately’ after I bumped over the curb… with both tiers… grrrr.
“You either need more practice, or” he looks around at the rather large van “Or you need a different vehicle.” Then he gets out of the van walks into the building and tells my mother the same thing.
My mother is shocked.
“She never bumps over a curb. I am usually getting on to her to get closer to them.” Is what she says.
So anyway, we are both thinking that # three is a charmer and we are going to get the windshield fixed in the pickup (or borrow someone else’s) so that I can try the test in it.
We went to the ‘miniature city’ in the pickup the other day and I drove the whole time and did perfectly fine in it except that I forgot to look over my right shoulder when backing a few times, but that was it. There was a lot of traffic that day, but I still did fine. I am just way more comfortable in the pickup.
So I will eventually type again and tell you of my third try at trying to earn a little piece of plastic that says I can drive. Until then… pray for me and the dear examiners.
Yours truly,
Aggravated, upset, van unloving, not feeling sweet or Christ like right now,
SWEETPEA ( :
10 Endeavor not to bump over a curb… especially with both wheels.
Yes, sadly and MOST UPSETTINGLY I did not pass my second test simply because I bumped over a curb in the van… right from the start.
I was not nervous this time, however the examiner (he was a different one this time) seemed to be the nervous one.
He had to ‘end the simulation immediately’ after I bumped over the curb… with both tiers… grrrr.
“You either need more practice, or” he looks around at the rather large van “Or you need a different vehicle.” Then he gets out of the van walks into the building and tells my mother the same thing.
My mother is shocked.
“She never bumps over a curb. I am usually getting on to her to get closer to them.” Is what she says.
So anyway, we are both thinking that # three is a charmer and we are going to get the windshield fixed in the pickup (or borrow someone else’s) so that I can try the test in it.
We went to the ‘miniature city’ in the pickup the other day and I drove the whole time and did perfectly fine in it except that I forgot to look over my right shoulder when backing a few times, but that was it. There was a lot of traffic that day, but I still did fine. I am just way more comfortable in the pickup.
So I will eventually type again and tell you of my third try at trying to earn a little piece of plastic that says I can drive. Until then… pray for me and the dear examiners.
Yours truly,
Aggravated, upset, van unloving, not feeling sweet or Christ like right now,
SWEETPEA ( :
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