Drivers Test.

pezenfuego

Active Member
I am probably going to take my written test tomorrow and hopefully will get my license. I was bored here and have been studying for it, so I thought I would relieve a little bit of boredom and start a thread about this subject. Do you remember this day of your life? Any interesting stories? Wreck your car the next day or something like that? Fail it the first time? The second time? The third time? The forth time?
Give me something...relieve my boredom.
 

pezenfuego

Active Member
Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/3043332
I remember I had speeding tickets when I was 16, 17, and 18.....Don't do that


I don't think I will. I'm pretty good at leaving early for things and I rarely dislike driving...
Thanks
 

lovethesea

Active Member
do you have your permit?? Here in MO. we start with permits at 15 (full driving written test) then you drive on that for at LEAST 6months. And then can take the full driving course test for your license.
Good luck. We are teaching our daughter to drive right now and I don't think I will ever be the same again.
 

pezenfuego

Active Member
Originally Posted by lovethesea
http:///forum/post/3043347
do you have your permit?? Here in MO. we start with permits at 15 (full driving written test) then you drive on that for at LEAST 6months. And then can take the full driving course test for your license.
Good luck. We are teaching our daughter to drive right now and I don't think I will ever be the same again.

Yep. I will have had my permit for exactly a year tomorrow lol. I already took a driving waiver a long long time ago, so I just have to take a 50 odd question test and I'll get my license (if I pass). After 90 days, I can drive with other people in my car.
Good Luck with your daughter, you might want to buy some hair dye for all the gray hairs you are going to get this year
 

meowzer

Moderator
Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/3043353
Yep. I will have had my permit for exactly a year tomorrow lol. I already took a driving waiver a long long time ago, so I just have to take a 50 odd question test and I'll get my license (if I pass). After 90 days, I can drive with other people in my car.
Good Luck with your daughter, you might want to buy some hair dye for all the gray hairs you are going to get this year

So you don't have to take an actual driving test??? GEEZ if I can remember that far back
I was sooooo nervous...BUT I PASSED 1st time
 

pezenfuego

Active Member
Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3043357
So you don't have to take an actual driving test??? GEEZ if I can remember that far back
I was sooooo nervous...BUT I PASSED 1st time

Nope. Just a written (or well I think computer) test. So this trip to the BMV should only take 4 hours instead of 6
I also have to take an eye test and to be honest I'm more worried about that...
 

meowzer

Moderator
Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/3043359
Nope. Just a written (or well I think computer) test. So this trip to the BMV should only take 4 hours instead of 6
I also have to take an eye test and to be honest I'm more worried about that...
WELL GOOD LUCK PEZ.....I'll be waiting to see how your do....LOL...hmmm...car...license...no more PEZ on swf
 

joe____17

Member
*** PEZ! Of course he doesnt have to take the test. If we all baked cakes for our instructors we wouldnt have to take it either
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uneverno

Active Member
lol - I hadda take both the written and driving test 15 years ago when I moved back out here. I was 35 at the time.
Rather amusing considering...
Best of luck - you'll do fine
 

dragonzim

Active Member
I can't believe that you dont have to take an actual road test. When I got my license here in NY (about 18 years ago) we got our permit at 16 after passing a written test. We could take drivers ed and the pass a road test to get the full license at 17 or if you didnt take drivers ed you could take your road test at 18.
 

tr1gger

Member
My driving test in indiana took me to a freaking HUGE movie theater to parallel park JUST as the movie was getting out!
 

bionicarm

Active Member
My daughter just got her official license back in March when she turned 17. When she turned 16, she took the local driver's training class for 6 or 7 weeks. They took the official written test in class. When she passed, she got her learner's permit where she had to drive with a licensed driver over 18 in the car for 6 months. After that, she could drive by herself, but could only have one other person under the age of 18 in the car, and couldn't drive between the hours of Midnight and 5 AM for six more months. That restriction came off when she turned 17. All she did was go into the DMV and get a new license showing the restrictions were lifted, no tests at all.
 

pezenfuego

Active Member
I had to take an actual driving test, just not today. I took it last year and it only cost me 20 bucks...it was a waiver.
I took the test, it was one of the easiest tests I have ever taken. I wasted time studying for it, I didn't miss any. I found out today that since I got my permit, they changed the law and you are no longer allowed to smile for your picture. So basically, it's a mugshot then.
 

meowzer

Moderator
Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/3043910
I had to take an actual driving test, just not today. I took it last year and it only cost me 20 bucks...it was a waiver.
I took the test, it was one of the easiest tests I have ever taken. I wasted time studying for it, I didn't miss any. I found out today that since I got my permit, they changed the law and you are no longer allowed to smile for your picture. So basically, it's a mugshot then.
SOOOO...Does this mean you are now a licensed driver???
 

michaeltx

Moderator
on my drivers test the instructor said turn "right" here so I did once I got on the road it was painfully apparent that it was a one way street going to the other direction. I argued with the guy because the signs where covered up by a huge bush so I drove around the block again *With him saying stop the whole way and to go back to the office* Until we got back to the intersection and I pointed it out to him!!! I passed the driving test with a lot of protest from the instructor.
The bushes were cut down that afternoon by city workers LOL
congrates on the new license though!!!
Mike
 

reefraff

Active Member
Mine was uneventful but when my older brother took his test he had to use my dad's car. My dad ran an oil company for a miser too cheap to buy a pick up so they would buy an old car and take the back seat out to haul the tools and parts. So this examiner has to sit in this car, a white early 60's Mercury with oil splattered all over it that smells like casing head (Basically unrefined kerosene they cleaned parts and tools with) and oil, so loaded down with tools and junk the rear springs were practically bottomed out. In short the guy couldn't have been pleased to be there. So about 2 minutes into the drive a car stopped short in front of him so he had to break hard. When he did a half full bottle of Canadian Lord Calvert (the old man's poison of choice) slid out from under the seat into the examiners feet.
End of test

He took the test again in a friend's mom's car and passed with flying colors.
 

sepulatian

Moderator
Alright Cam, I will give you my lovely story. I had practiced on my mother's car, which was a smaller car. My mom's car had to be in the shop the day before the road test....naturally... so I had to use my sister's great big Lincoln. I had never driven this car before. We get to the city, not NYC but another smaller city north of there. I am not used to this part of town. There was a huge line for the test. My sister says, "well let's go practice being that you have a long wait." We go over to a road that looks rather remote. She wanted to help me with my parallel parking in her boat of a car. We switch places, mind you I had my permit and was completely legal to drive with her next to me. We no sooner switch and go to try, a car pulls onto the street. The passenger jumps out and starts SCREAMING at us both!!! She called my sister stupid and blah blah blah.... We were not supposed to be there...etc. We were told that it is for testing vehicles only. There were no signs anywhere. My sis got into the drivers seat and drove us back. So, lo and behold, guess who my examiner was... yep, the woman who had yelled at us. Now, I haven't driven this car, it is much bigger than I was used to driving, and now this woman is going to test me. I passed but got severely marked down for the way that I stopped at a stop sign. It was the only thing that I didn't do right. I stopped then rolled forward a bit....Oiy
 

pezenfuego

Active Member
Originally Posted by sepulatian
http:///forum/post/3044175
Alright Cam, I will give you my lovely story. I had practiced on my mother's car, which was a smaller car. My mom's car had to be in the shop the day before the road test....naturally... so I had to use my sister's great big Lincoln. I had never driven this car before. We get to the city, not NYC but another smaller city north of there. I am not used to this part of town. There was a huge line for the test. My sister says, "well let's go practice being that you have a long wait." We go over to a road that looks rather remote. She wanted to help me with my parallel parking in her boat of a car. We switch places, mind you I had my permit and was completely legal to drive with her next to me. We no sooner switch and go to try, a car pulls onto the street. The passenger jumps out and starts SCREAMING at us both!!! She called my sister stupid and blah blah blah.... We were not supposed to be there...etc. We were told that it is for testing vehicles only. There were no signs anywhere. My sis got into the drivers seat and drove us back. So, lo and behold, guess who my examiner was... yep, the woman who had yelled at us. Now, I haven't driven this car, it is much bigger than I was used to driving, and now this woman is going to test me. I passed but got severely marked down for the way that I stopped at a stop sign. It was the only thing that I didn't do right. I stopped then rolled forward a bit....Oiy
My brother has a lincoln, it is fun to ride in, but awkward to drive. That's a pretty funny story. Can I ask a favor? Could you not call me Cam? I like Cameron, Pez, camfish, etc...but nobody has ever called me Cam and it seems weird
No big deal though
 
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