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I was 23. I kept renewing my driver's permit until they raised it to a princely sum of $3!
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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I don't recall what the fee for the license was, only that I was incensed at being "pressured" into getting one.
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I failed the driver's test three times before finally passing it...barely. I just got so frikkin' nervous taking the test! And learning under my dad's tutelage? A nightmare! He had no patience and a hair-trigger temper. Ugh!
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From: The Underbelly of Society | Registered: Jul 2003
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I think I passed the test on the first try, but I was so worried that I would fail that I delayed taking it for as long as possible.
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My car stalled the first time and I nearly killed the tester and myself, so I failed that one.
The second time, he nick-picked, "When turning right, you must enter the far right lane only."
Third time, I passed no problem.
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From: The Mansion | Registered: Mar 2004
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I didn't get my license until I was 18, I thought I was a late bloomer! I'd been driving 'farm vehicles' (i.e. pickup trucks) since I was 14, 'though, since that was legal in Oklahoma. {Amazing what sort of vehicles people had 'farm vehicle' plates on. If you can afford a Lincoln town-car, do you really need to save $14 getting farm vehicle plates instead of normal ones?)
I took my driving test in an enormous white Cadillac in New Hampshire. I was really nervous, because I'd never driven a car that handled like a boat before, nor on roads that had so much traffic!
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I learned in high school with a teacher who was also my class counselor in his last year before retirement. Boy, did he hate us!
I'd driven Dad's old tracktor since about 12. It was one of those that you had to stand on the clutch to get it to disengage gears. sigh That technique didn't work so well in the school's automatic! Poor man.
I got my license at 16 and my first car at 18. I remember racing other cars going backwards down old gravel roads and spinning donuts in snowy parking lots. (Don't follow my example, young lady!)
I stopped driving 3 years ago when my eyesight started to scare me.
Congratulations Luna. It's a lovely moment when you get that little piece of paper with the embarrassingly ugly picture on it.
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From: Salem, Oregon USA | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by LardLad: Yeah, definitely. I'm glad my grandpa, who's pushing 90, acknowledges this and drives very infrequently now.
My father, for years, would not drive at night because he had no night vision.
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by LardLad: I failed the driver's test three times before finally passing it...barely. I just got so frikkin' nervous taking the test! And learning under my dad's tutelage? A nightmare! He had no patience and a hair-trigger temper. Ugh!
I took three tries (and going to a different state) to get mine. On my first try, while waiting to go, I saw an even more nervous driver. The parking lot had the standard H shape of parking spot. This one woman got in for her road test and instead of pulling out, she put the car in reverse and hit the car parked behind her. The driving school instructor also told us that the Registry guy she had was the toughest one at that Registry.
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