Driving Instructor Ramble.

^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:13

Justin said:
100 lessons in an automatic!?

As I said slow learner and naturally nervous!

Fuzz · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:44

Sounds like some of you need to quit throwing money at a driving instructor and buy a bus pass.

100 lessons, dear lord

hurfdurf · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:49

^TANK^ said:
As I said slow learner and naturally nervous!

lol keep it up dude, you'll get it eventually.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:10

^TANK^ said:
As I said slow learner and naturally nervous!

Respect for admitting it.
I also bet when you passed that you didn't get in your car and drive like a lunatic like most young men do therefore pushing up my bloody insurance.
£180 I had to pay this year.

flibbage0 · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:26

dmpoole said:
Respect for admitting it.
I also bet when you passed that you didn't get in your car and drive like a lunatic like most young men do therefore pushing up my bloody insurance.
£180 I had to pay this year.

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Can't tell if you are being serious.

^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:29

dmpoole said:
Respect for admitting it.
I also bet when you passed that you didn't get in your car and drive like a lunatic like most young men do therefore pushing up my bloody insurance.
£180 I had to pay this year.

Driving with me is like driving Miss Daisy, I'm always 5-6 mph under the speed limit and depressingly slow in built up suburban areas.

Scubascorpion said:
Sounds like some of you need to quit throwing money at a driving instructor and buy a bus pass.

100 lessons, dear lord

hurfdurf said:
lol keep it up dude, you'll get it eventually.

^TANK^ said:
I passed my driving test in August on the 11th this year, first time with only four minors. Now for the embarrassing bit, I'm twenty eight and it took me roughly a hundred lessons .

SexyGreyFox · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:36

flibbage0 said:
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Can't tell if you are being serious.

Very serious.
I'm pretty sure the statistics for young men writing off cars is accurate.

• ONE in three young male drivers will write off a car in their first year of driving. Young women are half as likely to do so.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ers-cost-all-young-drivers.html#ixzz1XlyaDDfG

^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:43

dmpoole said:
Respect for admitting it.

Thank you, I don't feel ashamed as I passed first time and have a license at the end of the day to show for it. My only regret is leaving it so long.

flibbage0 · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:58

dmpoole said:
Very serious.
I'm pretty sure the statistics for young men writing off cars is accurate.

• ONE in three young male drivers will write off a car in their first year of driving. Young women are half as likely to do so.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ers-cost-all-young-drivers.html#ixzz1XlyaDDfG

Not that, I meant you complaining about £180 car insurance.

Is that not cheap?

Kenai · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:01

^TANK^ said:
I'm always 5-6 mph under the speed limit

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Kristoph · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:09

I stupidly had my first lessons with the same instructor that taught my mum.

I'm not ageist, but she was so frail and nervous, I really don't think she should have been still in that line of work.

She couldn't judge distances and was reaching for the steering wheel when we had plenty of space to pass on country lanes etc.

Ditched her fairly quickly.

Jay794 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:14

100 lessons in an auto? really? at 1 lesson per week thats almost 2 years! the average driver passes around the 9-12 month mark and thats a manual!

Automatics are just go-karts, or in the case of my dads Land Rover Discover very SLOW-karts. **** easy to drive though

Morgoth · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:15

dmpoole said:
I also bet when you passed that you didn't get in your car and drive like a lunatic like most young men do

Not when he's 28, no.

Fuzz · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:18

dmpoole said:
Very serious.
I'm pretty sure the statistics for young men writing off cars is accurate.

• ONE in three young male drivers will write off a car in their first year of driving. Young women are half as likely to do so.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ers-cost-all-young-drivers.html#ixzz1XlyaDDfG

I did

Probably more than one actually but it's so far back it's a bit of blur to remember.

^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:22

Kenai said:
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

If I'm being tailgated by someone impatient, I literally just brush the breaks and they either back off or I just slow down even more to the point of being stationary

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^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:24

Jay794 said:
100 lessons in an auto? really? at 1 lesson per week thats almost 2 years! the average driver passes around the 9-12 month mark and thats a manual!

Automatics are just go-karts, or in the case of my dads Land Rover Discover very SLOW-karts. **** easy to drive though

^TANK^ said:
As I said slow learner and naturally nervous!

Different strokes for different folks. It worked out at two and a half hours a week.

Scythe · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:36

Elixir said:
I had 6 lessons.

Worship me.

I had 8 lessons over two licences, motorcycle (1) and car (7).

Bow down.

Kenai · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:37

^TANK^ said:
If I'm being tailgated by someone impatient, I literally just brush the breaks and they either back off or I just slow down even more to the point of being stationary .

It'd probably help if you didn't drive around too slowly everywhere in the first place

^TANK^ · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:39

Kenai said:
It'd probably help if you didn't drive around too slowly everywhere in the first place

What legal and safe :confused:

25 in a 30, 35 in a 40 etc.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:40

flibbage0 said:
Not that, I meant you complaining about £180 car insurance.

Is that not cheap?

Actually it's £220 but when I started it was £25