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[Vamps]

Had to kill some time this morning so parked up in a Halfords car park right next to the driving test centre in Bishop Auckland.
Sat there for about ½ an hour watching learners come and go, thinking about what they were going through. It was not always obvious but a couple clearly passed and a couple clearly failed.
I felt sorry for them, I know we have all done it, I have all my licences and am an IAM member but I would not want to go through the driving test again. I have reversed buses and trucks in all sorts of places over the years but can I hell parallel park, I can do it eventually but not by the book so I guess I would fail the driving test.
The test centre is also right next to a little train station, a two coach train pulled out, about 8 people on it and the smoke from the exhaust  would  put the worst tractor to shame, surely not a good example of public transport helping the environment.  
 

[zippo]

whats a test a centre  

[Vamps]

whats a test a centre  

I know a couple of drivers who have never seen one.

[zippo]

whats a test a centre  

I know a couple of drivers who have never seen one.

do they drive autos or manuals  

[miggy]

Had to kill some time this morning so parked up in a Halfords car park right next to the driving test centre in Bishop Auckland.
Sat there for about ½ an hour watching learners come and go, thinking about what they were going through. It was not always obvious but a couple clearly passed and a couple clearly failed.
I felt sorry for them, I know we have all done it, I have all my licences and am an IAM member but I would not want to go through the driving test again. I have reversed buses and trucks in all sorts of places over the years but can I hell parallel park, I can do it eventually but not by the book so I guess I would fail the driving test.
The test centre is also right next to a little train station, a two coach train pulled out, about 8 people on it and the smoke from the exhaust  would  put the worst tractor to shame, surely not a good example of public transport helping the environment.  
 

Tuff time for them with the traffic these days.

Going on a different track, i was in our local mfi car park on  Tuesday afternoon, when i came out there was a learner driver practising his reversing with an instructer,...NEXT TO MY rather MIGGY....i politely asked the instructer if i could have a word with him outside the car........we walked to the rear of my miggy and i pointed out to him that i was not happy him having a learner practising his reversing between my and another car, they are learners and should be using another area where he could not damage any cars, the instructor got very shirty and a little adusive...at that point the little devil started to rise within me, i was not in any way adusive to him, i was polite and calm........when he started to raise his voice etc i then informed him what may happen to him if he carried on, once he knew where i was coming from he got into his KA and left the car park.

These rather pr"cks are using this car park all the time and after speaking to one of the mfi staff, she pointed out that there has been a lot of damage to cars in the past because of these instructers using it as an area for reversing practice.

rather pr"cks.if it happens again to me i will blow up.

Rant over  

[platty]

I think its like any sort of test really, you have to put what you want to do aside and go by the book the best you can.

I would have been mortified if i had failed my test - spent so long preparing becasue I couldn't wait to get on the road.

Paid off though, as that seemingly useless theory info comes in handy sometimes! Its kept me out of trouble for 6 years anyway!

[platty]

rather pr"cks.if it happens again to me i will blow up.

Rant over  

PS. Great rant!!  

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

rather pr"cks.if it happens again to me i will blow up.

Rant over  

 You did right. I'd be the same now... never mind when I eventually scrape the pennies to get my MV6's body put right back to perfection... (in black...)

[zirk]

whats a test a centre  

Whats a Driving Test?

[zippo]

whats a test a centre  

Whats a Driving Test?

pass

[jonathanh]

Had to kill some time this morning so parked up in a Halfords car park right next to the driving test centre in Bishop Auckland.
Sat there for about ½ an hour watching learners come and go, thinking about what they were going through. It was not always obvious but a couple clearly passed and a couple clearly failed.
I felt sorry for them, I know we have all done it, I have all my licences and am an IAM member but I would not want to go through the driving test again. I have reversed buses and trucks in all sorts of places over the years but can I hell parallel park, I can do it eventually but not by the book so I guess I would fail the driving test.
The test centre is also right next to a little train station, a two coach train pulled out, about 8 people on it and the smoke from the exhaust  would  put the worst tractor to shame, surely not a good example of public transport helping the environment.  
 

Tuff time for them with the traffic these days.

Going on a different track, i was in our local mfi car park on  Tuesday afternoon, when i came out there was a learner driver practising his reversing with an instructer,...NEXT TO MY rather MIGGY....i politely asked the instructer if i could have a word with him outside the car........we walked to the rear of my miggy and i pointed out to him that i was not happy him having a learner practising his reversing between my and another car, they are learners and should be using another area where he could not damage any cars, the instructor got very shirty and a little adusive...at that point the little devil started to rise within me, i was not in any way adusive to him, i was polite and calm........when he started to raise his voice etc i then informed him what may happen to him if he carried on, once he knew where i was coming from he got into his KA and left the car park.

These rather pr"cks are using this car park all the time and after speaking to one of the mfi staff, she pointed out that there has been a lot of damage to cars in the past because of these instructers using it as an area for reversing practice.

rather pr"cks.if it happens again to me i will blow up.

Rant over  

Trouble is when you are learning where do you practice bay parking.  Don't get me wrong I agree with you.  The present squeeze has been learning in the miggy (gets the odd look) and yes we have to try bay parking in places like MFI.  Still I'd rather trust the squeeze in the miggy than some instructore who doesn't give a stuff if he hits someone.  

Actually that reminds me, what really worried me about your story was not the instructor thing, more that you were thinking about shopping in MFI.  In short don't!  I would be writing for hours about the problems my parents had with them.

[Auto Addict]

The RoSPA advanced driving test includes parking in a bay.

[theolodian]

I guess it's too wet around here to practice with cardboard boxes?

[Dave-C]

Had to kill some time this morning so parked up in a Halfords car park right next to the driving test centre in Bishop Auckland.
Sat there for about ½ an hour watching learners come and go, thinking about what they were going through. It was not always obvious but a couple clearly passed and a couple clearly failed.
I felt sorry for them, I know we have all done it, I have all my licences and am an IAM member but I would not want to go through the driving test again. I have reversed buses and trucks in all sorts of places over the years but can I hell parallel park, I can do it eventually but not by the book so I guess I would fail the driving test.
The test centre is also right next to a little train station, a two coach train pulled out, about 8 people on it and the smoke from the exhaust  would  put the worst tractor to shame, surely not a good example of public transport helping the environment.  
 

Get that red estate off the pavement in your avatar, "A blind man could hurt himself "

[TheBoy]

I did a Microsoft Windows test the other day - along the lines of MCSE, but no certification - a that was bloody hard.  Although I'll never get to hear the results, I apparently did 'rather well'