Driving tests.

[Andyk]

We are talking about DVLA driving tests aren't we?

Hehehehehe. Well that is a another story .

 

[Oneball]

We are talking about DVLA driving tests aren't we?

Seats fold flat, pretty practical for a ride.

 

[Nibby]

I found this when moving the other year, my motorbike test appointment card, it cost me £7.50. Who knows where the time goes? said Sandy Denny.

 

[Corranga]

Passed my car test first time in 99 at 17, not much to note.
My bike test in 2008 was fun though.
The tester has come off his bike recently and has injured his arm or leg or something so wasn’t on a bike, but instead was following in a Vauxhall Zafira. We came out of the test centre and headed straight for a dual carriageway, we turned right, which was heading towards the only 70mph zone in the city.
Over the radio comes the instruction...
“At the roundabout, I want you to take the second exit, straight ahead “
Fine, indicated to pull out as there was a truck ahead, though the roundabout, pull some throttle and the 650cc BMW I was on left his Zafira .
He then asked me to take the next left, then he asked me to find a safe place to pull over and wait by the side of the road so he could catch up
Within about 20 minutes I was back in the testing centre with a pass.

 

[RoaryRati]

Passed my test first time too - on January 2 (early 70's). It was so boring my examiner nodded off - approaching a junction I had to ask him which way to go..... (apparently you're a better driver if you pass second time - who know for those who pass after their 10+ attempts!)

 

[GTVGEOFF]

Have a friend that booked his test on his actual 17th birthday and passed that must be a record. Got home drove off in his Morris 1100 and wrote it off.
We have a long sweeping corner that suddenly tightens in the fens it has claimed many people, he was trying to see how fast he could get round it, each attempt he would increase his speed by 5mph on his third attempt....

 

[MarkMas]

I passed my first test, and when I told my instructor, she was absolutely horrified and demanded that I take three more lessons before driving anywhere.

 

[GTVGEOFF]

I passed my first test, and when I told my instructor, she was absolutely horrified and demanded that I take three more lessons before driving anywhere.

Hmmm, did she have the hots for you by any chance?

 

[Wanderer]

My first driving instructor was a Pakistani muslim and in all seriousness asked me to find him a white woman to have sex with.

Binned him off....

 

[P5Nij]

I passed first time but it was a close run thing, my examiner was an elderly transvestite who was very rude and made me feel nervous, I was petrified of saying the wrong thing and found it hard to concentrate at times. I got through it though, and when I got home I jumped into my recently acquired Mini, picked the girlfriend up and went for a razz down the Warwickshire country lanes, where I managed to reverse into a brand new Jag XJS to avoid hitting a phone box in one of the villages. Oops!

 

[Wanderer]

My Mrs failed 3 times in Dewsbury, a notoriously difficult place to pass, and we looked at the stats and it more or less said if you failed there three times forget it, no chance fourth/fifth time, the odds were too set against....

Anyway I told her to not tell anyone next time she took it, keep it secret - takes all the 'did you pass?' pressure off.

I was working in Dublin (as usual) and she called me at lunch time and said 'I just passed my driving test!' She never even told ME she was taking it!! I was so elated I couldn't eat me dinner.

And, I used to take lunch at this cafe in Sandyford that was manned by patients from the nearby mental hospital, I got my lunch the the lass on the till charged me like €1.50, normally double that - I said that's cheap, you sure? She said 'Oh, aren't you one of the patients?'

What a day that was! Own partner excluding me and it seems to appear to look like a nutter to canteen staff......

 

[Guy]

I was fortunate to be given a cancellation before any lessons (6 month waitlist was the norm in Chichester early '80s). I passed my motorbike test (I had attended a few weeks RAC training at Tangmere airfield with some old, well over 30, beardies on BMWs), rode home with no L plates to be greeted by my mother waving the envelope. 'Your test is next week'. Nothing to lose so no nerves and sailed through. I am convinced riding motorbikes is a very good grounding for driving. My daughter has just had her test Covid postponed for the 4th time to end of April. I reckon she has driven 2500 miles as a learner!

 

[philw696]

Passed my test first time in a Mini 850 back in 1979 two weeks after my 17th birthday was gutted I couldn't get a test for my birthday.
Most of my practice driving was ferrying the old man around asleep to car auctions in anything from a 1750 Alfa to a 4.2 Jaguar.
My twin brother got his test the day before me and also passed first time giving me a sleepless night.
He took me on the motorway the night before my test.
Good Times indeed.

 

[safrane]

Recall my first test date... just 1 1/2 hours before the test they called the test off, along with all the others that day due to the Royal wedding... apparently there was no traffic on the roads so not a fair reflection on normal driving conditions.

I was so incensed that later that evening I went out for drive in my fiesta 950 pop plus on my own... I was ******** myself after the first 10 mins incase I was stopped by the Police.

Passed a week later first time.

 

[Wanderer]

To all those that passed the first time eff off!

 

[MarkMas]

Hmmm, did she have the hots for you by any chance?

Nope. More like the other way round. I was 18 she was about 30 but very cute. I think she genuinely thought I was a terrible driver, perhaps influenced by a collision during the previous lesson. Or maybe that was just her usual line to squeeze a bit more income out of people.

 

[Wack61]

I knew I was off to a bad start when I misread the car number plate..... but had other things on my mind - had to finish writing up my final year project to be handed in the following morning....
Eb

My uncle took his test in the 60s , walked out of the test centre , the examiner asked him to read the plate on the scooter 25 yards away , which he did , as they were getting in the car the examiner noticed the pudding basin helmet under his arm , hang on, that numberplate , was that your scooter, er

 

[Scaf]

Passed 2nd time back in 1980, can’t remember the reason for the fail.
My daughter failed her first attempt after some real bad luck and coming across two loose horses in the road ahead, examiner ruled she should have stopped further away.

 

[allandwf]

Passed 1st time in 1979 I think, cant remember much about it, probably wrecked lol .

 

[Wack61]

Passed 2nd time back in 1980, can’t remember the reason for the fail.
My daughter failed her first attempt after some real bad luck and coming across two loose horses in the road ahead, examiner ruled she should have stopped further away.

My daughter failed her test 300m from the test centre according to her examiner

some numpty had parked a van on the grass right on the T junction blocking her view to the left so she edged out to turn right until she could see and another **** coming from her left who could see what she was doing drove straight at her doing 40 in a 20 with his hand on the horn as he went past, she failed even though she wasn't in his lane

failed on inconveniencing another road user, though how you'd do it any different I have no idea

a friends daughter passed first time despite an incident on the old Runcorn bridge where 2 blokes coming the other way got out of their cars in front of her and started a fight which spilled into her lane, she just sat there until it went back into their lane then carried on