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Speaker 2: To my six year old daughter, very excited due to
Speaker 2: COVID all the stuff about getting her learners and going
Speaker 2: out and doing miles in the car as I was
Speaker 2: moved back for months last year. She hit sixteen in
Speaker 2: July and now she can finally do it. So I've
Speaker 2: got her three driving lessons booked in February. She's really excited.
Speaker 2: But we all can remember when we first started to
Speaker 2: have our driving lessons and driving tests.
Speaker 3: In the UK.
Speaker 2: The driving test is very different to here. So in
Speaker 2: our driving test, right, you've got to do a thing
Speaker 2: which was terrifying called the emergency stop. So the instructor
Speaker 2: would say, whenever I bang my clipboard on the dashboard,
Speaker 2: join this next twenty minutes test. You have to slam
Speaker 2: on the brakes immediately. It was like a child. It
Speaker 2: was just stepped in front of the car. So the
Speaker 2: whole test, right, you can't You're nervous anyway, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Because you're in the car with this strange guy with
Speaker 2: his clipboard. You know he's analyzing you, mirror signal maneuver,
Speaker 2: all of that. You're checking everything. One false move you're
Speaker 2: going to fail to go at lessons. Any moment he's
Speaker 2: going to smash the dashboard.
Speaker 3: You go go like this, do they still do that
Speaker 3: or yeah? And the other thing was we had to
Speaker 3: do a three point turn? Do you have to do
Speaker 3: the three point turn?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I always think of that. What's the one in Austin
Speaker 3: powers you know? Nine hundred moves?
Speaker 2: It's like an uber driver, you know some when they're
Speaker 2: doing that thing? What's he doing a nine hundred point turns?
Speaker 3: Bring me my dando.
Speaker 2: And the other thing was I failed my first test.
Speaker 2: There a thing called reversing round a corner where you
Speaker 2: punk up someone quiet and you'd have to reverse the
Speaker 2: car round a corner every day. No, I've never done
Speaker 2: it since, but I failed it first time, which is
Speaker 2: why I failed my test.
Speaker 3: So what happened with your test? It's different.
Speaker 4: I failed my first test as well. I had a
Speaker 4: driving instructor who gave you five lessons and then on
Speaker 4: the day he came with you in the car.
Speaker 3: So you can't have a mate. Where was he a mate?
Speaker 3: He was just sit in there right and do the
Speaker 3: thing for you.
Speaker 4: So the guy running the test is seeing in the
Speaker 4: passenger seat. But my instructor who'd done the five lessons with.
Speaker 4: He was in the back seat.
Speaker 3: We kind of like a cheat's moral support.
Speaker 5: I did as well.
Speaker 4: Jane, No, but I actually blame it on him as
Speaker 4: why I failed my.
Speaker 2: First She's doing it wasn't like in the rear view
Speaker 2: mirror sort of you know, holding up signs, going on
Speaker 2: your tanking.
Speaker 4: This he was worse. He knew the driving, he knew
Speaker 4: the test taker, I guess because they've taken a lot
Speaker 4: of tests together, so they were like blabbing on about
Speaker 4: their holidays. They hadn't seen each other for a while,
Speaker 4: definitely quiet, so they were doing a catch up and
Speaker 4: I was driving. I actually got the feeling that they
Speaker 4: weren't paying attention to me, so I went through a
Speaker 4: yellow light, which is technically legal, but they is frowned
Speaker 4: upon on the test and he told me to frown upon.
Speaker 2: And that's the emoji they use, crowned upon. I think
Speaker 2: it's a golden no no.
Speaker 4: It was a golden no because I didn't even get
Speaker 4: to finish the test, forget it. They asked me to
Speaker 4: pull over and then the test taker jumps in the
Speaker 4: driver come back.
Speaker 2: It went so bad, he went, we don't even trust
Speaker 2: you to get back to the I have a friend
Speaker 2: of mine right who was so nervous about his tests.
Speaker 2: He got this thing is called beta blockers. You can
Speaker 2: have these things to calm your nerves, right, They called
Speaker 2: beta blockers right right, and they really leve him out.
Speaker 2: You only meant to take one or two, all right,
Speaker 2: because they're very very strong. He took the whole blister
Speaker 2: packet of eight. He was so leveled out right.
Speaker 3: They some traffic bights.
Speaker 2: He was just out of it. I didn't know where
Speaker 2: he was, right. They strit to get going. Are you okay?
Speaker 3: So it's just like you know anyway, he was so relaxed.
Speaker 3: The car pulled up.
Speaker 2: At these nights, my mate just turn the engine off,
Speaker 2: got out of the car, just walking off.
Speaker 3: He felt the test.
Speaker 4: Because it's never happened before. It's probably unprecedented. So I
Speaker 4: was like, I guess you failed. We haven't written down
Speaker 4: that done anything wrong.
Speaker 3: He just went home. He's got a it's bored. Perhaps
Speaker 3: he did you pass first time?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I failed the first time and had it a bit
Speaker 5: of a big night before and got into a bit
Speaker 5: of trouble from my mum because I was running late
Speaker 5: and I failed anyway, so I had to reset it
Speaker 5: a second time.
Speaker 3: What the actual test, because there's two parts to it.
Speaker 5: Here, so the l plates it was for the theory test.
Speaker 3: Technically impossible.
Speaker 4: That's the one where you're not in the carb a laptop.
Speaker 5: You got to like the no, not in those days
Speaker 5: it was pen and paper. Just went into the vic
Speaker 5: Rhodes office. Failed, miserably, left in tears, and my mother
Speaker 5: was very angry with me.
Speaker 4: I thought that was the one where they tried to
Speaker 4: encourage you, like you can't fail. It's like, all right, no,
Speaker 4: you chose that, but for next time, John.
Speaker 2: And pats could fail. And you've never seen her drive
Speaker 2: and she should have stayed felt all right? What happened
Speaker 2: during your driving lessons or when you took your test?
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Speaker 2: What happened during your driving lessons or on your driving test?
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Speaker 2: Me, Jack and Patsy are all people that failed our
Speaker 2: tests the first time. I remember my instrict because I
Speaker 2: was so upset when I failed it because all my
Speaker 2: mates had parted.
Speaker 3: You just want to you just want to be on.
Speaker 2: The roads, don't It represents freedom? In the car, and
Speaker 2: I remember the instructor trying to make it better for me,
Speaker 2: going all all the best drivers fell first time and
Speaker 2: started naming some Formula one drivers, right.
Speaker 3: That failed first time. It's only actually, as I was
Speaker 3: thinking about some of that, how did he know what
Speaker 3: form Little one drivers? And also they dive dangerously for
Speaker 3: a living. Yeah, drivers, the most dangerous drivers in the world.
Speaker 2: I can't take solace that Lewis Hamilton might have failed
Speaker 2: it first time.
Speaker 3: All right, then let's go to lines.
Speaker 6: Joel, Good morning, Good morning, Hey going, guys, I'm good.
Speaker 3: So what happened in the car on the driving test
Speaker 3: or lesson?
Speaker 6: So I actually failed my els three times?
Speaker 3: You mean that the theory one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just to sit down at the computer and yeah,
Speaker 6: failed at three times. It was the sixteenth birthday present
Speaker 6: from my parents that kept going.
Speaker 1: Seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Joel, Joel.
Speaker 4: After the first one or even the second one, didn't
Speaker 4: you think maybe i'll study this time?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: I thought I was, but I'm not that smart obviously,
Speaker 6: but I passed.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen most of the people
Speaker 2: on the roads, I wouldn't say most of them.
Speaker 3: My joby of people, aren't that smart?
Speaker 6: Very true. I'm one of those people.
Speaker 4: I remember it being so easy though. It was like
Speaker 4: a simulation of like sand on the road up ahead.
Speaker 4: It's like, should you drive through the dangerous set.
Speaker 3: It's a red light after you stop, or.
Speaker 6: Go right through it through?
Speaker 3: No Joel? So, Joel, did you finally pass it on
Speaker 3: the fourth attempt?
Speaker 6: I finally passed on the fourth attempt I got you
Speaker 6: could only get four questions wrong, and I got four
Speaker 6: questions wrong and I passed.
Speaker 2: With vic roses fed up seeing it, I was, Joel,
Speaker 2: just bloody give it to him.
Speaker 6: Joe.
Speaker 2: All right, Joel, that's a great one. We'll give you
Speaker 2: a prize. Okay, thanks for colling you with that.
Speaker 6: Thanks guy, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, Eliza. Good morning, Oh, good morning,
Speaker 2: good morning, Eliza.
Speaker 3: Off you go. What happened?
Speaker 7: I had my instructor in the car who gave me
Speaker 7: a secret code to pass my test.
Speaker 3: So what was the pre arranged code?
Speaker 7: He had a dot in the door and that was
Speaker 7: a turn to the left, and then when he touched
Speaker 7: his forehead as a turn to the right, and that
Speaker 7: was my reverse park or sort of tore me.
Speaker 4: He actually sounds more difficult.
Speaker 2: Reverse parking is hard without some guy doing seophore or
Speaker 2: sign language on the back seat going what was it?
Speaker 3: Is it your left or my left door? It's harder.
Speaker 2: On the door.
Speaker 7: We had practiced it before the test, so we knew
Speaker 7: what we were doing.
Speaker 3: Do you think, Eliza, this out in any way?
Speaker 4: Why didn't youse path?
Speaker 7: Yes, it really stucked me out for years after that.
Speaker 7: But after the test, I did it for the past
Speaker 7: first time, just did my reverse parts.
Speaker 2: They need to drive round in the car for years
Speaker 2: afterwards because you had learned it.
Speaker 7: Sometimes to give it over to friends to reverse pass
Speaker 7: for me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Eliza, that's a great call.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Have a good day you too.
Speaker 3: By Tracy, good morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning. I failed my test the first time because
Speaker 8: I had someone running to me while I was doing
Speaker 8: my test.
Speaker 3: Crashed that their currents yours yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 8: I was totally innocent because the law says that you
Speaker 8: are actually partly guilty because she's there at the.
Speaker 2: Times, almost like a metaphysical sort of conundrum.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was in the left hand lane. A guy
Speaker 8: went past me. It was a two lane road. He's
Speaker 8: gone past me on the right hand side and gone
Speaker 8: a left hand and at the next street, and it
Speaker 8: was almost the end of my test, and the instructors,
Speaker 8: every examiner just said to me, turn around and go
Speaker 8: back if aished, Oh.
Speaker 2: That's right, there was, Yeah, I bet, And so did
Speaker 2: I give.
Speaker 3: You the next one free?
Speaker 8: No, my driving instructor did he because he argued the point,
Speaker 8: said it wasn't her fault and everything like that, and
Speaker 8: gave me the next lesson because you have a lesson
Speaker 8: with it. And he gave that to me free that
Speaker 8: and he paid the booking and everything out of his
Speaker 8: own pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. We give you pat tickets go to
Speaker 2: Village Gold class. We'll give you a double passer.
Speaker 8: K oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That's right. Chase and enjoying a thanks you.
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