Learning how to drive! >eek!<

[SolidTiger]

The worst drivers are in California, but when you get use to
it it's not so bad. almost like riding a bike

Thank you

SolidTiger

 

[Nightingale]

hehe... my best friend was taking her drive test in a Ford Excursion. she'd been practicing with her mom's little Saturn...but it had transmission issues the day of her test, and her father's (a lawyer) car was a stick shift, which she didn't know how to drive yet.

She got to the parking section...not parallel parking, just normal parking, where they have cones set up a certain distance apart and you have to park in a normal parking lot situation. Well, after knocking over the cones, my friend got out a tape measure. She's got one on her keychain...don't ask why. please. She'd already gotten an automatic fail for hitting the cones, so she had nothing to lose. She measured the distance between the two cones. Then she measured the width of her vehicle... yep, you guessed it... she couldn't have parked that car in the space if she'd been the best driver on earth. The car was four inches bigger than the alloted space. She pointed this out. Not knowing what do do, the instructor simply passed her.

This situation is one of several cases and one of the legal reasons why California doesn't test parking on a drive test anymore. Someone finally sued the dang DMV and got it removed.