Parenting
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I learnt to drive from a guy in my class at school (simpler times!). I sat the test in his Corolla Station Wagon, which was an awesome little car. I could parallel park it because I could see exactly where the car ended. When I came out to the car with the traffic cop (back then cops gave you your driving test) my mate had graciously pulled the choke - something I'de never even noticed let alone used before - all the way out so when I started up the little sewing machine engine revved like a bastard while I panicked and tried to work out what was going wrong. Old mate was standing on the footpath pissing himself. The cop knew exactly what was going on and shook his head and said "Mates, eh?". I just sat there with my crimson face while the cop reached over and pushed the choke back in. I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
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I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
So true. I was 15 and bloody useless, didn't kill anyone so I was given a little green book to go and kill someone. Mostly myself, but others got lucky.
For my test the piss taking of me was something my father would have been proud of during my "lessons". Refer to the first car thread for ways to humiliate your child whilst not teaching them to drive.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
Terrible job.
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I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
So true. I was 15 and bloody useless, didn't kill anyone so I was given a little green book to go and kill someone. Mostly myself, but others got lucky.
For my test the piss taking of me was something my father would have been proud of during my "lessons". Refer to the first car thread for ways to humiliate your child whilst not teaching them to drive.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
Wikipedia tells me that traffic and police merged in 1992, so it would have been the traffic cops back when you did it. Most of the guys on here won't have experienced a time when the police didn't do any road policing. I mean technically they could have, they just didn't. The traffic cops drove around in their black and white Belmonts and scraped teenagers off the roads and unwrapped drunks from around power poles. We had a family friend who was a traffic cop in Whangarei and he had an opinion that the 5 year gap between driving age and drinking age were to blame for a lot of teenage deaths, as every 17 year old from town knew you could drive to a country pub and get a drink, then drive back towards town before stacking your EH Holden into a farmer's paddock.
Oh and @Hooroo you can feel free to suck my left one. My 80 year old left one.
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I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
So true. I was 15 and bloody useless, didn't kill anyone so I was given a little green book to go and kill someone. Mostly myself, but others got lucky.
For my test the piss taking of me was something my father would have been proud of during my "lessons". Refer to the first car thread for ways to humiliate your child whilst not teaching them to drive.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
Wikipedia tells me that traffic and police merged in 1992, so it would have been the traffic cops back when you did it. Most of the guys on here won't have experienced a time when the police didn't do any road policing. I mean technically they could have, they just didn't. The traffic cops drove around in their black and white Belmonts and scraped teenagers off the roads and unwrapped drunks from around power poles. We had a family friend who was a traffic cop in Whangarei and he had an opinion that the 5 year gap between driving age and drinking age were to blame for a lot of teenage deaths, as every 17 year old from town knew you could drive to a country pub and get a drink, then drive back towards town before stacking your EH Holden into a farmer's paddock.
Oh and @Hooroo you can feel free to suck my left one. My 80 year old left one.
Love you man!!!
I remember when they were in black and white Mitsi V3000’s.
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I remember the MOT "cops" and the merger, but not as a driver. The change from police doing driver licence testing was 2000 or so when testing for the full licence was introduced, as I got my restricted from the police, but had to do the full test through the AA as the system changed after I got my restricted.
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I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
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Fuck @JC really is old.
My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Cops were still testing when I did mine in 1984.
I managed to back into the car behind me in the parallel park but still got my licence.
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@Godder the learner/restricted/full thing was well before 2000, I got my learners on my 15th birthday in 1989, think it had been about for a bit before then too.
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@Godder the learner/restricted/full thing was well before 2000, I got my learners on my 15th birthday in 1989
You didn't need to sit a test for your Full Licence though, only for your restricted and then you got Full after 2(?) years of Restricted Driving unless you did a defensive driving course?
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@Godder the learner/restricted/full thing was well before 2000, I got my learners on my 15th birthday in 1989, think it had been about for a bit before then too.
Google says 1987.
So quite a few of us were just handed a full licence at 15 irrespective of crashing, causing crashes, etc during our test with a cop. They all had bad moustaches as part of their uniform too. -
Miss 12 got busted messaging on her phone at midnight on a school night. Very unfortunate she tried to fire back at her Mum with "You and Dad are on your devices until all hours!"
I don't give a shit. Mrs TA, however, seems to hold a grudge about the fact she IS on her iPad a lot and generally watches videos to fall asleep at night ... which science has said is fucking awful for you, but what do THOSE people know?
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@NTA rarely do either of us ever take our phones into our room, we dont use iPads much either and never for watching stuff in our room (we do have a TV in there though) more so since Miss 11 stood on one of them and has cracked the screen.
TR Jnr is pushing the boundaries on his phone, but I say we dont have ours in our room, so neither do you.
