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Driving lessons with my boy are fantastic bonding time. I thoroughly recommend it to all parents.
Like most teenagers he'll absolutely hammer the accelerator after coming to a complete stop but after enduring this multiple times and fearing severe whiplash I told him if it doesn't stop then the lessons won't continue. He actually listened and doesn't do it anymore. I'm being really pedantic about his speed, checking mirrors, hazards etc.
"But Dad" he correctly points out. "You don't do all of that"
"No son, but I have my license already, you can pick up bad habits once you've got yours"
I want him getting his restricted first time if at all possible.
Best of all he said I'm a much better teacher than his mother. In front of her. I'll take that win.
We're taking the shitty spare Vitz out, no reversing camera and we listen to old CDs from the garage ( the ones that aren't all scratched to shit ).
.....and naturally I'm counting down to when he can pick me up from the pub ! Happy days
( not that I actually go to the pub much anymore being a sad GOM )
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@MN5 Miss 17 got her restricted about a month back, has changed our lives
She bought her car in Feb so she could learn in it for her restricted test, now we barely see her, and i dont need to go and.pick her up from work 3 nights a week.
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 Miss 17 got her restricted about a month back, has changed our lives
She bought her car in Feb so she could learn in it for her restricted test, now we barely see her, and i dont need to go and.pick her up from work 3 nights a week.
Yeah, definitely a good idea to learn in the car you're going to do your actual test in. Last thing you want is to change to a european car and switch the wipers on when you're intending to indicate.
Did she get hers first time ?
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I remember going for my restricted, my car broke down the day before the test, so I borrowed my mates. Only difference was the indicator and windscreen wipers were on opposite sides to mine, so I kept putting the windscreen wipers on by accident. I still somehow passed it, though I think it was easier to pass back then.
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@No-Quarter said in Happiness Scale:
I remember going for my restricted, my car broke down the day before the test, so I borrowed my mates. Only difference was the indicator and windscreen wipers were on opposite sides to mine, so I kept putting the windscreen wipers on by accident. I still somehow passed it, though I think it was easier to pass back then.
Yeah they ping you for anything apparently. It's quite an effort to get it first time these days.
......and I stand by my belief that if someone grabbed me with no warning and made me do a restricted test I would 100% fail due to all the bad habits I've picked up over the years. Anyone who says different is a liar.
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@MN5 unfortunately not, within 500m of starting, thought she had moved to 60km zone, but was 50, immediate fail.
I sat in.the back as you hear.stories of some testers being dicks, thats not much fun, especially when she had.somehow turned the air-conditioning off, and I was overheating in the back, but not allowed to ask her to put it on!
Was amusing seeing all these muppets on the road while she is doing her test, not indicating, speeding, all sorts of poor driving.and she's.there trying to do everything perfectly just to pass her test that most people couldn't pass.
Most of her friends failed at least once, while TR Jnr and his mates, most passed 1st time.
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
Driving lessons with my boy are fantastic bonding time. I thoroughly recommend it to all parents.
Like most teenagers he'll absolutely hammer the accelerator after coming to a complete stop but after enduring this multiple times and fearing severe whiplash I told him if it doesn't stop then the lessons won't continue. He actually listened and doesn't do it anymore. I'm being really pedantic about his speed, checking mirrors, hazards etc.
"But Dad" he correctly points out. "You don't do all of that"
"No son, but I have my license already, you can pick up bad habits once you've got yours"
I want him getting his restricted first time if at all possible.
Best of all he said I'm a much better teacher than his mother. In front of her. I'll take that win.
We're taking the shitty spare Vitz out, no reversing camera and we listen to old CDs from the garage ( the ones that aren't all scratched to shit ).
.....and naturally I'm counting down to when he can pick me up from the pub ! Happy days
( not that I actually go to the pub much anymore being a sad GOM )
I thought it was an acknowledged rule that you never teach your own kid to drive? A family friend taught me back in the day.
@No-Quarter said in Happiness Scale:
I remember going for my restricted, my car broke down the day before the test, so I borrowed my mates. Only difference was the indicator and windscreen wipers were on opposite sides to mine, so I kept putting the windscreen wipers on by accident. I still somehow passed it, though I think it was easier to pass back then.
I did mine with the handbrake on.
For some reason I did the test in an old Hillman Hunter we had because it had a smoother gearbox despite the fact I had learn't in my own Mazda - I think my Mazda was too sporty looking.
Anyway the Hillman had the handbrake on the drivers side door so I just forgot about it. I think it helped me as it kept my speed down a bit. At the end when I realised I pulled out my best Marlon Brando impression to make it look like I was putting the handbrake on.
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 unfortunately not, within 500m of starting, thought she had moved to 60km zone, but was 50, immediate fail.
I sat in.the back as you hear.stories of some testers being dicks, thats not much fun, especially when she had.somehow turned the air-conditioning off, and I was overheating in the back, but not allowed to ask her to put it on!
Was amusing seeing all these muppets on the road while she is doing her test, not indicating, speeding, all sorts of poor driving.and she's.there trying to do everything perfectly just to pass her test that most people couldn't pass.
Most of her friends failed at least once, while TR Jnr and his mates, most passed 1st time.
Yeah there's quite a few instant fails and whilst that's something we've all done it certainly pays not to do it in a test ! I didn't know parents were allowed to ride along though ?!?!?! not sure if the boy would tolerate that.
@Nepia yeah the stories we've heard would indicate that but I promised to work on my patience and he promised to work on actually listening to me. Seems to be going well so far. There isn't actually a hell of a lot of teaching now, it's more a case of him going for a drive up the coast and me tagging along.
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@MN5 you have to sign a form confirming you will sit there and not say anything.
As I said, I had heard stories of instructors being dicks, and this is my little girl
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 you have to sign a form confirming you will sit there and not say anything.
As I said, I had heard stories of instructors being dicks, and this is my little girl
Yeah, this story springs to mind.....
If I legitimately passed my license ( which is a pretty scary, tense thing to do ) and had to do it again I would be furious.
I'm slightly dreading having to teach him to parallel park without a reversing camera. I'll be extremely rusty. But the little shit reversed perfectly down our drive without one so he'll probably be fine.
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@MN5 I mostly taught her but we also got her lessons.
She def not as natural as her brother, but then he was riding motorbikes, mowing lawns on the ride on for years before so had a.better understanding of driving.
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 I mostly taught her but we also got her lessons.
She def not as natural as her brother, but then he was riding motorbikes, mowing lawns on the ride on for years before so had a.better understanding of driving.
Yeah I think we're gonna get the boy to have a couple of proper lessons beforehand too.
$167 is a bit of cash for him to fork out so I'm hoping he gets it first time.
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Yeah first time around I jumped the kerb on the first corner outside the police station, then did the rest of the fucking test perfectly, but got failed on that first 30 odd metres. So easy to make one crucial fuck up, so don't get him too set on passing first time, then he knows if he sits it again he just has to do the same thing but lose the mistakes, pressure off.
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@Bones they dont seem to do it like that anymore...Miss 17, shortly after doing 60 in a 50, they went down a side road, turned around and done, didnt even carry on to do the whole test for feedback, failure up front, thats it, over.
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@taniwharugby said in Happiness Scale:
@Bones they dont seem to do it like that anymore...Miss 17, shortly after doing 60 in a 50, they went down a side road, turned around and done, didnt even carry on to do the whole test for feedback, failure up front, thats it, over.
Fuck that then, tell him if he makes even the smallest mistake, he will be an outcast forever unless he speeds into a tree and undoes the instructors seatbelt before impact, then claims the instructor went berserk and tried to kill him.
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