Scoobyols69

enter how many times it took you to do the above :
I haven't had a driving test yet soon will be

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1.

How many times did it take you to perfect the most annoying text on the internet?

Kieran_Burns

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first time

I did mess up the emergency stop though - it was the first thing to be tested on and I was VERY tense due to having some smack into the back of my car when I was learning to drive

Scoobyols69

1st time

rbaz

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1st time for car and bike

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He's edited it. It's still crap, but not quite as bad.

Nice attempt at a come back s69, but remember your posts leave an edit time...

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

1st time

cookstar

iTrader: (6)

2nd for car, taking my bike test very soon so hopefully first time for that.

BOB.T

1st time on my 2nd test! My first test got cancelled because of snow so I had a two hour lesson bombing around on snow covered roads...probably the most useful lesson I had!

n one

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First time and three weeks after my seventeenth birthday

StickyMicky

same here

3 weeks ftw!

little-ginge

1st time and only 6 lessons

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*cough* birthday on the 21st, first test available on the 29th.

zs_phil

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2 times ,the first i was in a no win situation driving at 40mph in a 40mph limit came upto some traffic lights on green and they changed when i was a metre away from the line so i kept on going and he failed me for that, i told him if i had stopped i would of been across the line to which he replied with a silent look at me .

second time passed in ice and snow 1 minor for hesitating on a roundabout .

i believe that there is the right time of year and a wrong time when they have passed to many people they become more strict

wagrain

1st time, the day after my 17th B'day. I'd spent a couple of hours on my B'day driving with my dad. Then the next day I had 2 hours with an instructor before taking my test. That was back in 1984.

Lee247

2nd time for me The examiner was a miserable sod, and I got the same one second time too

Sonic'

1st time for me

Instructor asked was my name Stirling, as I took a roundabout a bit on the quick side

Kieran_Burns

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my wife teaches the kids of a driving examiner and it turns out he's stopped tests because the student was so bad.

Only thing is: he's not insured to drive the car and will not allow the student to do so. So he gets out, locks the car and gets a taxi back to the test center.
Leaves the failed student stuck by the side of the road!

corradoboy

When you say 'They changed when I was 1m away', do you mean they changed to amber or red ? Traffic lights are timed to the speed of the road, so on a 30mph they will fairly quickly go from amber to red, but on a 70mph road they will remain amber for much longer to allow people to slow safely from the higher speed. The HC states 'If the amber light appears you may go on only if you have already crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to stop might cause an accident'. If the lights you were approaching had been at green for some time, then you should have been anticipating their change and made suitable preparations to stop the car safely before the red light appears. You may however cross the white line safely at any point up to the red light showing.

They call this a 'walkback' and there's a guy at Harehills test centre in Leeds known as 'Walkback Jack' because he does it so often. I've never had this happen to any of my learners thankfully. I'd find it very embarrassing to allow someone so obviously not ready in for a test. If anyone not ready insists they want to do one then they do it in their own car, not mine.

Oh, BTW. First time as a driver in 1988 and first time as an instructor (Pt. 1, 2 & 3) in 2006

Wenker Man

First time.

That was with a squeeling/slipping clutch whilst reversing round a corner up a steep hill and parking a foot away from the curb.

GC8

One car
One motorcycle
Two HGV

Scoobyols69

cool i should be doing my test within 1 or 2 months now been learning for couple weeks now with 5 lessons passed my theory the other week

Jamie

I thought you need to pass the theory test before you drive as a learner ?

zs_phil

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they change the timing on the lights in hull sometimes the lights near me will get 2 cars through then other times they will stay on for at least 2 minutes but it changed to amber then to red it was 11 years ago though so i was young and niave and just accepted it

r32

1st time , car and bike.

Jamo

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1st time car, 3rd time HGV.

zip929

1st time car
1st time bike
1st time HGV1

boxst

1st time after two lessons as a cancellation came up.

The problem being that to be honest, I was completely unprepared to go out on my own afterwards as I hadn't a clue having had no lessons. Still a few weeks later of 'practice' then everything was fine.

Steve

dpb

im only just intuitively looking in the rear view when overtaking any thing

i reckon iv done pretty badly so far

only got the next 30 years to redeem myself