Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (Anntaurus) — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:10:13 GMT

Good luck to you on Monday Jane and Chell for when you get your date. Keep us updated! I didn't take mine 'till I was forty and I am so glad I did it although I could still do with more confidence! You realise you have more choices when you pass your test!

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feeds@yuku.com (matildasmum) — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:28:56 GMT

thank you all for all your encouragment, i dont feel quite as nervy now, i think it was just booking it made it all 'real', knew i had it to do, n it's no big deal really, i think i just want to pass but i know a lot of ppl don't first time, but looking at this thread actually a lot of you did pass first time, n everyone got there in the end anyway.
quite looking forward to it, just need my practice time n i'll be ok.
thanx again, n to jane good luck on monday,...

Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (JACQUI Q) — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:59:31 GMT

failed my first one. A bus pulled out in front of me with no signals, and I put my foot down and shot past it. He failed me for dangerous driving! He told me that I should have let the bus hit me, which it would have done, and I had a go at him, because it was MY car, not a school one! I was dreading getting the same examiner next time, but I didn't and passed. I was also 8 months pregnant, so perhaps he didn't want to upset me!!

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feeds@yuku.com (starcyl) — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:41:01 GMT

I didn't pass first time and had an ex police officer, he did diagrams and everything once he told me i had failed. The funny thing is now all these years later I still remember his words and pictures. The second attemp I was more nervous that the day I got married and was shaking like a leaf, well we had only got a couple of minutes and I had noticed the examner had put a couple of lines on his sheet so I thought oh well I'll have to do it again but it must have been good for me as I...

Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (matildasmum) — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:43:49 GMT

oooh good luck jane, good vibes heading your way m8,
thank you all sooooo much ladies for your stories and support.
chell
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feeds@yuku.com (Jane C) — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:32:43 GMT

I'll tell you more on Monday next week Chell. I've got my test at 11.00am!

Jane xxx

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feeds@yuku.com (Jacqueline Pratt) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:58:50 GMT

So many years ago but I remember it well! I felt sick with nerves and had the grumpiest of examiners. Luckily I had a wide range of vision and for the emergency stop I saw his newpaper coming towards the dashboard to give the signal and did the fastest and 'bestest' stop ever. Things came flying off the seat behind and also from the rear windscreen, one of them hitting the examiner on the back of the head

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feeds@yuku.com (Sally) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:59 GMT

When I took my test it was the same day I did a pregnancy test(my parents didn't know)! One of those you had to leave a few hours, so I couldn't see the result of that before I took my driving test.
Passed both with flying colours!!!

Sally

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feeds@yuku.com (craftycol) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00:38 GMT

My father taught me to drive (not recommended) and on the day of the test I had an hour practice with him in the car, and could I do anything right! I could not reverse round a corner, nor a hill start, and Dad was getting rather short tempered to say the least (he did have a short fuse) Off we go to the test centre to find that mine had been cancelled due to too many examiners down with flu, but we had had no notification. I was re-booked for the next day. Dad was on night shift that week,...

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feeds@yuku.com (lady catfern) — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:33:25 GMT

I went the wrong way when the driving instructor told me to turn at traffic lights. I went right, across the traffic, instead of left like he told me!!

I also stalled the car on a roundabout on the morning of my test, which un-nerved me, but I passed the test first time.

Good luck and just try your best. Its all you can do!

Love

Jill
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Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (matildasmum) — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:19:22 GMT

oh thank you ever so much ladies,
ali i did see it on the other thread, thank you, n as my first lesson was in torrential rain i know where the wipers are, but after about 8 lessons i did have to ask about headlights as all my lessons up to then had been during the day or 5pm ish when john picked me up so the lights where already on!
my butterflies have abated somewhat, n it really is a confidence thing for me, i know i can drive n it'll be about my ability on the day, saying...

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feeds@yuku.com (Deileen) — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:11:44 GMT

wow so long ago. Was coming up a very steep hill when a duck and ducklings crossed in front of me. I stopped, let them go and started again without giving it a thought. Now if I had been asked to do a hill start, would probably have gone back a few inches. My late husband was a driving examiner at one point in his career. Some of the tales he told me were hilarious. When they are trained they are told they must not be over familiar with the candidate, in case it distracted them. He was...

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feeds@yuku.com (Cardy Anne) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:50:32 GMT

When I was learning to drive, one of the examiners was notorious for being really grumpy and miserable. Who do you think I got for my my test.................yes, old grumpy guts! He failed me on my first test. Then when I was in the waiting room for my second test I was praying it wasn't him again, but who walked out into the room and called my name? Yes, old grumpy guts again and my heart sank. Thankfully, he passed me second time, and actually cracked his face with a smile at the...

Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (AliMayes) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:45:11 GMT

I put this on the Good Morning thread but I'll repeat it here in case you didn't see it.

Chell, I still remember my driving test of many years ago (and I did pass first time much to my own surprise) and the wise words of my driving instructor.
1) Just imagine everyone else on the road is an idiot.
2) If you make a mistake put it right sensibly.
3) Do you know how to work the windscreen wipers? (I didn't and it was raining so he left them...

Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (grandmaeunie) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:51:18 GMT

Good luck with the test Chell. Just don't do what a friend did on her test.......
reversed into a parked police car on her way out of the test centre!
Eunicex

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feeds@yuku.com (stitchandsew) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:38:08 GMT

when i went for my test it was raining and then stopped i kept the wipers on when i returned to the centre he asked me what harm does it do the windows keeping them on if it's not raining, i said thats not in the highway code.and when going up a road there was a big puddle and yes i lifted my feet up.lol
i passed
mary

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feeds@yuku.com (matildasmum) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:31:26 GMT

oh thanx ladies, i have put by funds to extend my lessons if i need to n if i don't i shall treat pete n DS to meal out, but shhh don't tell em. lol.
i know i have the ability as john my instructor is positive i'm ready n it was him who pushed me to do my theory which i passed with the proverbial flying colours, much to my delight.
and that gave me aboost, n i've had 4 more lessons since then n i've visibly improved since then too, it's the confidence thing,...

Re: driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (Anntaurus) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:23:12 GMT

I was so nervous when I took mine that my clutch leg was visibly shaking and I couldn't stop it! I tried to have a joke with the examiner about hearing my bones shake but he wasn't amused. Needless to say I failed the first one. The second time I told myself it is just another lesson with someone I haven't driven with before, it isn't the end of the world and I can always do it again. I was as calm as can be and sailed through the test. The second examiner took time to find...

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feeds@yuku.com (Patsy) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:21:57 GMT

I was told to eat a Mars bar, as the sugar helps to calm any nerves. Wasn't something I could face at 8am!

Good luck with the test

Patsy

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feeds@yuku.com (joanna sheen) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:01:40 GMT

well I say keep calm and don't do what i did and argue with the instructor about the best route to take - I told him there was a big delivery at a local pub at the time we were doing the test so there would be a long hold up - he was miffed and said go where I tell you too and yep - there was the beer barrel delivery (I knew !) so I did my 3 point turn a little early and went the other way and yes I passed!

Lots of luck - loads of practising and keep calm - there's always...

driving test advice ladies please!

feeds@yuku.com (matildasmum) — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:24:20 GMT

hiya ladies, got 8 more lessons before my test, any advice, stories, giggles on tests would be very welcome please.

chell
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