April 7th 2008 1:40pm, Daves 4th driving test was about to begin.
Eye test, no problems.
Questions, easy.
"Right, I'd like you to choose one of these bays and reverse into it."
Straight in, no worries. Off they went on the drive. The guy didn't even bother to get his folder out.
Left, right, right, left, friendly banter back and forth.
"Turn right here." A bit of a queue of oncoming also turning right. A small gap, but pretty tight, Dave decided to wait, road cleared, off they went.
"We're going to reverse left round this corner."
Get into position, start the turn, stop to let a car past, finish the turn, very close to the pavement. Dave looked briefly at the examiner, he had his eyes closed!
'Whatever, two manuvers down, just drive back and pick up your licence.'
The drive back was without incident, parked nicely at the centre and the examiner said...
"I'm sorry to tell you you haven't passed."
'What the f*£k? Is that just the only thing these people know how to say at the end of a test?'
"You got a serious fault when turning right, you should have took the gap. On the reverse left round the corner you got another serious fault for not observing properly to the right. And you got another serious fault for stopping too early at giveways on 3 occassions."
Dave was speachless. Particularly annoying was the comment on the lack of observations coming from the guy with his eyes closed. The early stopping he had completely not noticed and the lack of balls to take a tiny gap he had never had imagined would be serious.
Such is life.
Failed.
