Just got my permit

[treel98]

well went to the bmv this morning right when they opened and got my permit i got a 49 out of 50 questions correct. super excited

 

[Road Angels]

congrats!!! Now just dont drive like a dumb ass and lose it before you get your regular license like I did

 

[treel98]

will do

 

[Mark_88]

Congratulations...

Not sure how it is done now, but we used to get a "Learners Permit" that allowed you to drive only with a licensed driver in the passenger seat...think I had to borrow my mother to go out on a date so I could actually pick up chicks...it was a bit of a drag because Mom didn't like half the scags I was interested in...

Anyway...yeah, do it right...your life and others usually depends on safety, sobriety, and keeping it between the lines...

 

[black_demon69]

Also you should warn everybody to stay off the road. ....
Just kidding lol congrats

 

[treel98]

yeah thats how it works got to have a liscenced driver in the passenger seat but it is what it is you konw what i mean

 

[Mark_88]

Oh, yeah, I know it also isn't what it isn't...

I will say that I failed my first test...guy said I backed up the alley a bit too fast for his liking...took me a week to clean the passenger seat...then I went the next week to a different town and passed with flying colours...the guy beside me was a bit green and I was a bit blue...but he gave it to me and said something about never coming back while he was on shift...

 

[tmcalavy]

My ole man drug me down to DMV in Tejas on the annointed day, as early as we could go...first a-hole failed me by a point or two cause he didn't get to finish his coffee first. We went to the next DMV station a few miles away and did exactly the same and passed with 100 percent flyin' colors...that dude musta had his Irish coffee by then.
When my big sis' was trying to learn how to drive a standard, I copped a ride in the truck cab with her and the ole man. She did okay until she hit the first stop sign about a block from the house...you know the tale...jerk, jerk, jerk, lurch, lurch, dead engine. After round three of that I panicked and bailed out and walked back home...sis hates me for that to this day and she still can't drive a stick.

 

[treel98]

yeah for the permit didnt have to actuially take a driving test just a written but when i get my liscence i have to do the driving test

 

[Chris_North]

It's funny how different one DMV is from another. Even the cone spacing for parallel parking varies from what I've heard. I passed my first try. When I went my mom had forgotten some paperwork and so we had to go back home (about 20 minutes away) and come back. The DMV woman that was to giving me the test said that this has happened many times before but usually the kid flips out on his/her parent and she admired me for being perfectly calm and respectful. TBH short of running some one over I think I would have passed because of that.

There's like a three month minimum waiting list around me for the actual license test now for some reason. And IIRC I only had 15 or 20 questions on the written for the permit. It seems around here they pretty much give these things away to anyone with a car anyhow...

 

[96Indyram]

Congrats man! Just be safe...and keep a eye out for motorcycles!

I failed my first driving test in a 79 ford f100 longbed (300 i-6 auto) for 2 reasons.
1: transmission was rebuilt and shifted really hard...guy was complaining the whole time.
2: I didn't park right in front of the door to the building after the test where he told me to park.....guess the fact that it was Compact parking only didn't apply to his 450 pound azz.
So when I refused to park where he told me, he told me I failed the test. Having this knowledge I decided to park all the way on the other side of the parking lot as far away from the door as I could. Told him to get out of my truck and enjoy his exercise.
I got to the building a good 5 minutes before he did and The other DMV instructors/workers must have been watching out the window and when I walked inside to reschedule my test they were all laughing and clapping. Obviously they didn't like him either.
Took my sisters Camaro my 2nd try just incase I got him again and I knew he coulden't get in the car.....got a gal instructor and passed 100%

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

lol, ahh memories...

I got to take my test in a fullsize station wagon. Made it through the written part easy enough and the only thing I didn't do correctly in the driving portion was that I didn't know where the hazard lights were. The cranky old guy who gave me the driving test told me I failed because of that and that I "took a turn too jerky."

I went back like a week later and got someone different, then failed the parallel parking test. I was in the spot but too far from the curb. The guy was really cool about it and wanted to know why I was trying to take the test in such a big vehicle. Told him that I really didn't have a lot of options. I had my choice of the station wagon, two different F-350 dump trucks or trying to borrow my buddy's chevy pickup. He decided to give me another shot at it and I made it in that time so he dinged me like 2 points and passed me anyway.

Always thought it would be awesome to build some toy like Gwaii with his 4-wheel-steer choptop Explorer and take the test in that, could probably just pull into the parallel parking spot, no reverse required, lol.

 

[black_demon69]

i almost didn't pass my first time because i didn't honk when i put my car in reverse.. that is until i asked him if he ever honked when he put his car in reverse and he said no i also pointed out that they never covered that in drivers ed. apparently it was a really old law that was still on the books from the really early days of automobiles.

took my test in the snow in an 85 mustang gt 5.0l 5 speed manual the fat sob couldn't even get the seat belt on he was to big and he wanted to fail me because of that also again i pointed out that his weight was not my problem.

i think he passed me just to get rid of me....

 

[treel98]

yeah that is some thing that really pisses me off is the fat old crabby assed man that ALWAYS works at any DMV in the country lol but what can you do about the fat man

 

[JoshT]

Congrats on the pass. Back when I got mine we just had a written test to get learners permit, I think they make them do a driving test on both now. Local DMVs have gotten stupid.

Most of my driving practice had been in a 90 BII stick shift. Day of test had to do it in my mom's tempo. Did good until tester took me through a residential neighborhood. IIRC speed limit was 35 and I stayed closer to 25 (may have been 25 and 15) because there were 3+ foot tall shrub rows that ended at the road. For all I knew a child could have been playing on the other side and run into the road, I was driving slow on the side of caution. Tester scolded me and tried to tell me to speed up. Reminded her that speed limit was maximum speed, I told her we could take that up with her manager. Then when parallel parking I didn't get close enough to the curb, I would have in the BII, but since there's no parallel parking in that city she let it slide.