My Roadtest is Tomorrow...

[kenshinbebop]

Comfort me. :lol:

I'm pretty pumped. I'm also a bit nervous. I guess that's good though...

Tell stories about yer roadtests.
Perhaps it'll make you feel better.

[Meggles]

I heard that a driving instructor forced the student to run a cat over because you're not supposed to stop for them. I don't know if its true or not, but if it is poor kitty :(

But hey, good luck on your test! :)

[tenshi_a]

I'd argue that you're supposed to be proving that you can drive carefully, so if the kitten was a hazard you are right to avoid it.

Besides, that would be mean.

Good luck for tomorrow! :dance:

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Hello I am the beast from Paralel Parking Hell

[Shiroiyuki]

Remember to never yield the right of way, especially when a sign tells you otherwise. It's a lie. What do signs know anyway?

[sailornyanko]

Good luck. Fortunately (haha) I live in a country where you don't even need to know how to drive to get a drivers liscense. Had it been true, I would have never gotten mine because I drive so bad.

You just show up, show your voters card proving you're over 18, pay 40 dollars at the most and in 10 minutes you get your liscense. They don't even register between states if you don't already have multiple liscenses. I could have easily gotten a State of Mexico liscense for the sake of collecting 'em all but I didn't have enough money that day to do it.

[Victory]

DON'T FREAK MAN!

I'll be in the back, holding on to the door handle.

[RecentMidget]

watch the instructors actions.

if they are talking to you, you are doing pretty good.
if they are screaming "STOP" you should probably listen.

[MillionsBastard]

Your car might explode, most likely while passing a bus full of children.

[kenshinbebop]

I passed!

:punch: :punch:

[tenshi_a]

Woooooooooooooooooo! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! :D :D :D

Congratulations! :dance:

[Gibb]

I heard that a driving instructor forced the student to run a cat over because you're not supposed to stop for them. I don't know if its true or not, but if it is poor kitty :(

But hey, good luck on your test! :)

People are supposed to keep adequate following distance behind you in case you need to brake for something, such as cats or a road hazard that could damage your tires. If you brake for a cat and somebody slams into the back of your car, they're completely at fault.

[KabukiSaMuRaI]

I passed!

:punch: :punch:

Hmm....you must have been over near Brentwood because I hear they don't make people do parallel parking. :)

At least you weren't in a hilly place like SF where a parking break is much used. I never understood in the beginning about turning the wheels one way or the other but it all makes sense later on.

Congratulations as I'm sure today was probably a bad day weather-wise....you didn't leave your mom standing their in the cold while you took your test, did you!?

The female instructors are particularly nasty (more so than the dudes) I found when I took my exams and I can understand why they were so on edge. I'm sure now that you will be driving more often that the fun and mystique of getting behind a wheel will eventually disappear buddy.

Then it's time to learn manual!

[Caster13]

Congratulations! soooooo.....when do you get your own car?

If you can get a new one, awesome. If not, welcome to the club of almost every other new driver out there. However, whatever you do, do NOT buy a Geo. They're cheap, but they are one of the biggest piece of crap cars ever created. Let me put it this way.....you'd be safer in an accident in a Mini Cooper, and a Prius could probably beat it in a drag race.

[Jia]

Traffic lights are a lie. So are pedestrians. If they are on YOUR road you have permission to run them down. (J/K)

I heard a story of an Asian woman being told to go through the round about and then turn left. She went over the curb and right into the garden of the round about and yeah....subsequently failed the test.

[allan5]

hey mine was today and it went well, the instructor said i have preety good chances of getting through.... whoopy!!!

[Tidusauron12]

OK man, next pillows concert, we're totally hitting it up together! I'll meet you in New York!

[Caster13]

Traffic lights are a lie. So are pedestrians. If they are on YOUR road you have permission to run them down. (J/K)

I heard a story of an Asian woman being told to go through the round about and then turn left. She went over the curb and right into the garden of the round about and yeah....subsequently failed the test.

How much more stereotypical of a story could you get?:rolleyes:

[MillionsBastard]

Hey hey now, let's all be excellent to each other.

[Jia]

I'm sorry :(
I let the princess get to me.

[Magami No ER]

Good luck, I was a nervous wreck before both of my tests. >>;

Not really the driving type, ya see. Although I owned the second test (after another month of practice) when I started ignoring how much of an intimidating ***** my proctor was....and not misjudging how much room I had when pulling out to traffic. >>;;;;;

[Jon]

Driving is easy, but the cone test was hard...because of the car I was in. I failed the cone test initially because it's ****ing impossible to see out the backwindow of a Ford Taurus and the car is big and bulky.

Second time I did the cone test perfectly with a Geo prism, now that was the easiest thing I've ever done.

[Trefellin]

Driving is easy, but the cone test was hard...because of the car I was in. I failed the cone test initially because it's ****ing impossible to see out the backwindow of a Ford Taurus and the car is big and bulky.

I don't think that's an excuse...

"Get out of the car now you creep, I saw you run over that old lady! You're going down for involuntary manslau... Oh wait, is that a Ford Taurus? I'll let you off with a warning this time."

[Jon]

Okay, impossible was an exaggeration. It doesn't change the fact that it was much easier to maneuver the Geo and easier to see out the backwindows/mirrors.

[Tom Servo]

Then it's time to learn manual!
It seems like a waste of time to do your test in an automatic only to later have to do it again in a manual to get a manual license, when you could just get a manual license which covers both and save yourself the hassle (saying that, automatic cars are rare in the UK - either old folks who can't operate a manual or people with disabilities drive automatics usually).

[KabukiSaMuRaI]

It seems like a waste of time to do your test in an automatic only to later have to do it again in a manual to get a manual license, when you could just get a manual license which covers both and save yourself the hassle (saying that, automatic cars are rare in the UK - either old folks who can't operate a manual or people with disabilities drive automatics usually).

You're absolutely right. It would be a waste but that's not what I meant. It is apparently a rule that the car you use for your road test (in the states) has to be automatic.

When kenshinbebop gets tired of driving around in an automatic, the suggestion was for him to learn stick (on his own time of course). It would be ridiculous to retake the test just for a manual type license. Re-taking the test to test actual driving skills is something that a lot of people need though (but that is a different topic).

I remember your comments about manual cars in the UK from another thread I made before. Over here, automatic is the norm and most people think they are race car drivers behinds automatic gears. Go figure.

[Caster13]

It seems like a waste of time to do your test in an automatic only to later have to do it again in a manual to get a manual license, when you could just get a manual license which covers both and save yourself the hassle (saying that, automatic cars are rare in the UK - either old folks who can't operate a manual or people with disabilities drive automatics usually).

A manual license?:huh:

The US is almost completely opposite. Most cars available here are now automatic, and sometimes you actually have to pay extra to get a stick shift. I need to learn stick myself, but I don't have any access to a car with a manual transmission.

[Meggles]

You can get a manual license in the US? I'll most likely be learning stick because my mom favors it and one of our cars is stick. I thought you could just get one license and that would cover everything (except for things like Semi Trucks, motorcycles, and buses).

[KabukiSaMuRaI]

You can get a manual license in the US? I'll most likely be learning stick because my mom favors it and one of our cars is stick. I thought you could just get one license and that would cover everything (except for things like Semi Trucks, motorcycles, and buses).

Wait. Tom Servo misunderstood my post. Everyone gets a license with an automatic car. There is no such thing, at least to my knowledge, of a 'manual license.' Lol.

You are right about the commercial licenses though (CDL) and motorcycle. They require their own separate test.

[Meggles]

^^Oh, I was confused there for a second lol ^_^

[Caster13]

One license DOES cover both automatic and manual.