Why should I subject myself to unnecessary stress?
Failed my driving test today. Yeah, it didn't help that a car was doing its utmost to hog the right lane, refusing to give way even when I signalled in order to approach the U-turn junction, and he horned me when I managed to squeeze my way through. There are quite a lot of drivers who are complete arseholes here.
But that wouldn't have been enough to fail me.
I usually don't go for conspiracy theories, but I have to believe that there is really a unwritten rule to fail female learner drivers on their first test. To dock off enough points to fail me, I was apparently penalised for failing to move off on time (when did this happen?), driving slower than traffic conditions (excuse me, if driving 70km/h on a 70 km/h road is slow, what the heck?), making 2 wide turns of which I could only recall doing so once and we are allowed to make one mistake here without penalties, and supposedly hitting the kerb when reversing out from the parallel parking lot (which I did not feel at all but the damn examiner insisted had happened, and I couldn't verify because it was at his end).
For that, I now have to fork out the cost of one PSP Slim to pay for two compulsory lessons and a retest. What the f***? I'm claiming all costs from my parents since they were the ones who insisted that I take up driving lessons, which I hated because they're freaking expensive (it has since cost me 3-and-a-half PS3 machines, or a 9-day Japan holiday package) and a thorough waste of precious weekend time. Plus I do not foresee myself driving on a regular basis should I ever pass the damn thing because I don't own a car and I don't intend to buy one (purchase and maintenance included, cars generally cost about a small 2-bedroom apartment here, and unlike the 99-year leasehold apartment, cars have a depreciation life of 10 years since the taxation laws basically forces us to scrap the thing by that time).
But that wouldn't have been enough to fail me.
I usually don't go for conspiracy theories, but I have to believe that there is really a unwritten rule to fail female learner drivers on their first test. To dock off enough points to fail me, I was apparently penalised for failing to move off on time (when did this happen?), driving slower than traffic conditions (excuse me, if driving 70km/h on a 70 km/h road is slow, what the heck?), making 2 wide turns of which I could only recall doing so once and we are allowed to make one mistake here without penalties, and supposedly hitting the kerb when reversing out from the parallel parking lot (which I did not feel at all but the damn examiner insisted had happened, and I couldn't verify because it was at his end).
For that, I now have to fork out the cost of one PSP Slim to pay for two compulsory lessons and a retest. What the f***? I'm claiming all costs from my parents since they were the ones who insisted that I take up driving lessons, which I hated because they're freaking expensive (it has since cost me 3-and-a-half PS3 machines, or a 9-day Japan holiday package) and a thorough waste of precious weekend time. Plus I do not foresee myself driving on a regular basis should I ever pass the damn thing because I don't own a car and I don't intend to buy one (purchase and maintenance included, cars generally cost about a small 2-bedroom apartment here, and unlike the 99-year leasehold apartment, cars have a depreciation life of 10 years since the taxation laws basically forces us to scrap the thing by that time).