Ever Fail your Drivers Test?

[Dr. Snubnose]

I was speaking with a gentleman this morning who had me on the floor laughing so hard, I almost wet my pants...We were talking about passing our drivers tests when we were young. I passed my test first time. It took this guy 4 times. He told me the first time, he put the car in reverse by accident stepped on the pedal, jumped the curb and smashed into the motor vehicle building..uh FAILED!...Second time he failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a cross walk, almost ran over some little old lady with a walker ...uh..FAILED! Third time he blew through a stop sign and was pulled over by a cop (who wrote him a ticket...LOL) How bout that getting your first ticket before you get your license...LOL Fourth time he passed....YAY! But......He only had his license for 45 minute before it was taken away from him...He was doing 145 MPH on the highway, and told the state trooper he just got his license and needed to see what his car could do...The nice state trooper took his license on the spot...LOL
I though it might be fun to recall our first driving test, Did you pass first time? If it took you more than once tell us why you failed....Safe driving all!!!....Doc :D

[The Deacon]

I failed mine twice, but neither was anything really funny.

First time, I was just unfamiliar with the car I wound up taking the test in. Had learned on a '50 Ford, 3 speed manual, no power anything. Person who was taking me for the test got sick, the one who was willing couldn't drive standard, so I took it on a '57 Plymouth with a push button automatic, power brakes, and power steering. So I did a few nose dives, made some excessively tight turns, and did a really lousy job of parallel parking.

Second time, I didn't really fail, just wasn't allowed to take it because one of my headlights decided it was a good day to die. Even though it was 10am on a sunny day, that was considered "defective equipment".

[psychophipps]

I passed mine without any real hitches. I failed to check my blind spot once despite my tweaking the mirrors so I really didn't have a blind spot and the only way anyone could have possibly gotten right up next to me was with a Romulan Cloaking Device. I didn't slow down enough on a "T" intersection that I had the right of way on to make him happy. I still can't parallel park worth a dang, so you can imagine how well I did it during my test.

[Jordan]

As a child of the techno generation and a confirmed action movie junky, I passed my driving test the first time I took it, complete with a j-turn in between two other vehicles to satisfy the parallel parking portion of the exam :-P.

Kidding, took me three tries... to be fair, my Dad administered the practical exam portion of my Driver's Ed class (one of those parent run courses you can get from the DMV). Unless any of you took your test from an ex-cop turned high school principal, I defy you to have done any better. As I recall... my second failure was due to parking more than 8 inches away from a curb and signaling less than 300 feet prior to a lane change on the freeway or something. :D

[dsvirsky]

I failed my test the first time because guy administering the test was an a$$hat (and the CA DMV did things that way back in 1972 -- almost no one in my area passed the first try).

In my case, I was failed for slowing for some pedestrians who were crossing the street mid-block, instead of coming to a complete stop. The CA Vehicle Code only required that I slow to allow them to cross safely (my father was an LEO at the time, so I knew what was required). Passed the second try, including j-turn and parallel parking on a hill.

[Arcitecht]

Even though it was only a couple years ago, I don't really remember much of it. But I guess I passed on the first try, cause I don't remember having to do it again. I also did OK on my motorcycle riding test. Guess I'm just awesome :D

[CanisMajor]

Passed mine on the first, but in fairness it was just several years ago.

Canis

[ChrisR]

Passed first time :) They've made it a lot harder since those days though ... funny how we still seem to have just as many idiots on the road though :rolleyes:

[yablanowitz]

Passed mine on the first try all three times.

The first was for a regular Class C license, the second one was for a Class A Commercial licence and the third time was when they changed it to the current CDL. Since that one was supposed to be taken with the rig you were going to be driving, I was really disappointed when they wouldn't give me the route for the test. I was going to get permits and flag cars and show up for the test pulling a 16 x 80 mobile home. :D

[rosconey]

my dad was /is a drunk-he used to have me drive back from oswego to syracuse starting when i was about 12-did it every weekend no matter what the weather-any upstater will tell you it can get crazy in the winter-ohh and it was a stick-


on my 16th birthday i went for my permit then walked directly into the test line-the lady told me to get some time behind the wheel and come back-i said nope i know how to drive

when the instructor showed up for the road test he told me the same thing-i showed him :)

i was in drivers ed with a license that summer for the insurance break -

[Agent Starling]

Yeah, I passed driver's ed, but I've been to driving school so many times since :eek: ...in my state if you get a speeding ticket, you can pay slightly less than the price of the ticket to take an 8 hr driving class...and I passed every time!! (you don't do any driving in the class, you just relearn all the rules of the road & then take a test! :) ) :D :D

Agent Starling

Oh, and you can only get 1 ticket erased in a 2 yr period, by going to the driving school thingy...

[Water Bug]

I passed the first time I took my driving test... barely.

This was probably Summer of 1977. I practiced for my driving test using my father's large Oldsmobile Delta 88. Got to where I could even parallel park his car fairly well... and, I HATE parallel parking.

However, on the day of the test, my father needed his car for work, so I had to use my aunt's huge Oldsmobile Toronado. It was my first time driving that car and it was my first time driving a car with front-wheel drive.

My aunt drove my mother and I to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). As I sat there in the car waiting for my evaluator, I watched as the Texas troopers were doing their inspections of the vehicles and asking the drivers to honk the horn. I hadn't tried the horn on my aunt's car and started pressing on the steering wheel. I soon discovered I couldn't find the horn. After several tries I waved my mother over and asked her to find out from my aunt where the horn was. She soon came back and said it was right "there." She pressed it, the horn went off, and the trooper bent over in front of the car and inspecting the car ahead of me shot straight up into the air, spun around, and glared at me. :eek: I sat there hoping he wasn't going to be my evaluator.

Soon, a Texas trooper came and said he was there to administer my driving test. He did the inspection, and, yes, I knew where the horn was, he hopped in, and...

Trooper: "Does this thing have air conditioning?"

Me: "Yes, sir."

Trooper: "Well, turn it on and let's go!"

And, off we went. I was doing fine until we came to the parallel parking portion of the test... and, I HATE parallel parking. And, having never parallel parked my aunt's Toronado before, I really had no clue what I was doing. The car handled like a boat and I don't think the front-wheel drive was helping me any, either. As I tried backing into the space, I could see the flag behind me waving as I hit it. :eek: ****! :mad: So, I stopped, and...

Trooper: "Put it on in there!"

Me: "Uh, I hit the flag."

Trooper: "You did?" Looks over his shoulder. "Oh, so you did. Okay, pull on out an let's go."

So, we left the test area and went out on the street. There were some minor things I did wrong, but overall I was doing okay until the trooper told me to turn left at the intersection. As I was about to tun, he shouts, "LOOK OUT!" and reaches for the steering wheel. I stopped in time as a pickup truck came charging through the intersection. :eek: I could've sworn he wasn't there before. Where he came from, I had no clue.

We returned to the DPS after that little adventure and the trooper completed his tally on my score card. He noted that I failed the parallel parking, I failed to see the oncoming pickup truck and almost didn't yield the right-of-way when making that left turn at the intersection, and pointed out a few other minor things. When all was totaled... I passed by one point.

[butch]

cant parrele park to save my life that was the only thing that failed me the first time
the 2nd time i cleared the park and got my pass

[Buckles]

i never took one. i did the parent taught drivers ed course. back then your parents could just sign a waiver at the dmv and they automatically passed you. i think they changed the law recently and now everyone has to take the test. probably better that way.

[smcfalls13]

I failed mine the first time. In my defense however, there was a foot of snow on the ground and I could see the lines on the course. I aced the parallel parking though :cool:

[vampyrewolf]

Passed mine the first time with 6 points off (of 10 possible).

Yes, I can parallel park a minivan :p

I got my learners and biked all over the place for a couple years, never did get a "probationary" license because I got my drivers after I was 18

Dad had taken me through the university grounds and set up cans to hit. "red can rear left, blue can front right" type of thing. So I knew exactly where the wheels and corners of the van were.
Spent a couple hundred bucks for a private instructor a couple weeks before my actual test, as a quick refresher (2 trips, about 2hrs each, through downtown traffic). First one with their vehicle, 2nd one with the minivan.


So we get to my driver test after that quick history lesson :p
I was doing everything textbook, thanks to the quick refresher, and he tells me to get in "close and park up there". So I got in CLOSE. We're talking a few inches between mirrors. I knew I had room, He didn't :D had the tester white knuckling the dash as I get in tight and pull off a textbook perfect parking job. Get out of that spot, and the 2nd spot he wants me to park in was to small to do comfortably so i told him that. 3rd spot I didn't go in as tight with the van at speed and still pulled off another textbook park.

I lost points for the 1st parallel park and 2 right turns not getting in close enough (after him freaking out I wasn't going to pull in tight on him again :rolleyes: ).

I prefer smaller vehicles, but can park just about anything. I can even fire a trailer into a camp spot (on the 2nd or 3rd try).

[Toad310]

No, I had the California, DMV inspector reading a test taking book so he could promote to the next level of do nothingness at the DMV, and he paid no attention to anything I did.

Plus he may have been stoned. This was in the 70s.

[HellHound]

Ok,doc so I only past my test on the 3rd time.first time I blocked a guys path when changing lanes so we stopped and the instructor said the standart GTFO for me :D ,second I stopped near the stop sign but not the junction of streets I got so nervous that I nearly rammed the car in front on purpose (ya I got p*ssed),the third time was peachy, afterwords the instructor gave me a tap on the back and said 'drive safelly' :D

[The Mastiff]

I had been driving for years at the farm, and the greenhouse jobs where I worked. Tractors, lifts, cargo vans, loaders etc. I was like an old hat taking the test, including my motorcycle test.

I was amazed when I got to europe and saw how difficult the test was there though.

Nothing like the US. Heck, just the signs took about an hour. Europe had some strange ones too.

Where I was stationed in Barvaria we had a "slippery when frogs" sign. Strange stuff!

[Dr. Snubnose]

I had been driving for years at the farm, and the greenhouse jobs where I worked. Tractors, lifts, cargo vans, loaders etc. I was like an old hat taking the test, including my motorcycle test.

I was amazed when I got to europe and saw how difficult the test was there though.

Nothing like the US. Heck, just the signs took about an hour. Europe had some strange ones too.

Where I was stationed in Barvaria we had a "slippery when frogs" sign. Strange stuff!

"Slippery when frogs" LMAO...Years back driving in Florida (north of Tampa) in the middle of the night I heard squish squish squish under my tires, I was what the heck is that...I turned on the high beans to see I was running over frogs that were on the road....hundreds of them... maybe thousands, by the time I finished my drive by I'm sure there were a lot less :eek: ....Doc :D