I am certifiable apparently

[sammywol]

I passed my Driving Test! Woohoo! I did all the right things and only made a couple of Grade 2 errors and so passed on a not perfect but will do ticket. Phew! such a relief! The wanker did not tell me I had passed, although I was hopeful by the way he was quietly conversational on the way back to the office; however having me sign my 'certificate

Comments

[purplecthulhu]

Well done!

Now you have to remember to keep death off the roads and drive on the pavement!

[Joke does not translate into american...]

[sammywol]

Thanks!

A lot of this does not translate into American, including the having to take a separate test if I ever want to drive a shift.

[a_d_medievalist]

People have been known to drive on the pavement here, but normally only in cop movies and when they've had heart attacks, etc!

One can buy a bumper-sticker that says, "if you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!"

[curiouswombat]

Hurrah! Congratulations!

Perhaps someone ought to donate them some reading matter?

[sammywol]

There was a shredded copy of some cheapass gossip rag but for me the notices on the wall and the lousy road carnage puns were about all I could muster up the focus for as my fight or flight mode was well kicked in by then.

[curiouswombat]

PS - do you now have to have R plates, or is that just us? I had a feeling that we adopted it from Eire.

[sammywol]

Nope. No R plates, but they are talking about them. They are also talking about things like recent immigrant adn freshly passed people having to drive at a lower speed limit - so that might give you the level of intellectual rigour going into this process.

[curiouswombat]

As far as I can tell the Manx government accept driving licences from anywhere as a driving licence, full stop - so no restrictions on recent immigrants etc - except that if you have been resident for more than three months you must take your valid Polish/Philipino/English licence into the relevant government office and apply for a Manx one. This is a good revenue earner!

We have 1 year of R plates during which you may not go at more than 5o mph. This applies to anyone driving a car wih R plates, so if I forget to take D-d's off, and drive at 6o I am breaking the law.

[sammywol]

We have 1 year of R plates during which you may not go at more than 5o mph. Wow! I went faster than 50 mph on my test, not much but a bit, 90 kph. We do not recognize all licenses and this too has been a nice revenue earner but there are moves afoot to tighten up as the number of recent immigrants dying in road accidents is pretty scary statistics wise. R plates could be a good idea but as people are willing to risk certain death in order to overtake a learner now Heaven knows what they would do in the name of speed if there was that kind of restriction here.

[enigmaticblues]

CONGRATULATIONS! That is good news.

[sammywol]

Indeed! Celebrating with fine food and fine chocolates. Yum!

[doc_mystery]

Congrats on passing your driving test.

Even though you all drive on the wrong side of the road...

::B::

[sammywol]

Not 'wrong' just sort of 'sinister'. And thanks!