What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[Ninaroja]

3 days, 2 driving tests, 2 failures, 0 more chances to do another

2 failures for completely avoidable things.

2 failures at the last few turns

£300 gone


I'm so mad at myself and disappointed and upset and feeling guilty and

Awww, what happened? I'm sorry. I hope things get better for you. <3

Thank you Twin <3 (and also to Haraka, Julie and everyone else for the nice words)

I'm not sure how driving tests work in the US, but here in the UK your mistakes are divided into 3 categories: minor, serious and dangerous. You are allowed a maximum of 16 minors to pass your test but any serious or dangerous mistakes is an automatic fail.

My first attempt (Monday) I was really nervous and so I made a lot of mistakes - 14 minors total which would have been a pass. But, we were nearly back at the test centre and I pulled out into a junction - I thought there was a large enough time gap for me to turn right across a lane of oncoming traffic but apparently not the examiner (who apparently is the worst one I could have gotten because apparently he's a total *bleep* who fails people all the time for stupid things) had to slam on the emergency dual controls to avoid a collision.

My second attempt I was very lucky to get because someone cancelled their appointment and I was able to book it - It went so well I only had 5 minors and 3 of them were for undue hesitation (which imo shouldn't be a minor because you're basically being penalised for being too careful) but when we were almost back to the test centre I apparently drove far too close to the parked cars (the examiner (who was a lot nicer) actually flinched but I thought he was sneezing ) and I didn't stop at a pedestrian crossing The pedestrians I could see were on the other side of the road/traffic island but I unfortunately didn't see them because they were wearing earthy colours so they blended int the brick wall behind them very well indeed I was hoping for just a minor since they were on the other side of the road still and hadn't reached the traffic island but unfortunately not

[Haraka]

which imo shouldn't be a minor because you're basically being penalised for being too careful

That's plain stupid , here in france even if it annoy the examiner , they have no right to penalize you for being too careful

[it means no worries]

Driving test rules in Jersey are very strict, 5 minors and you fail, except for in St Martins Parish (county to you English people ) where you fail if you get 3 minors.

And also the rules for driving are VERY, VERY strict, drunk driving (even if you don't cause an accident) is a £500 fine and either 1 month in prison or six month's community service. Whilst causing a crash with another car is £2000 ON TOP OFF damages and a crash involving pedestrians is a £5000 fine and a 6 months automatic prison sentence if they are injured and more if badly injured.

We REALLY do take our driving seriously

[Perrys Girlfriend]

Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!!

[Tsuki]

Lovely day today

[Perrys Girlfriend]

Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!!

For your love spell!!! Seriously...

[Lauren]

That didn't sound good from how my mother was yelling on the phone.

[Daenerys]

going mtn climbing the weekend i get dumped on with a crapload of hw kill me now

[Buffy]

Ew they put me back in the cable queue.

[Ninaroja]

Two weeks until I move to Southampton! Eek!