So my fatass instructor came on time to pick me up at 8.30 in the morning. I took the driving seat while he lit his cigarette. We didn’t talk for the first 15 minutes after which he broke the ice by asking why I was quiet today. I told him perhaps I was nervous and he laughed it off saying .. so what if you fail? *Idiot* We continued driving until we hit a roundabout…my nemesis…actually i was finding it tough to negotiate the larger roundabouts at first, but then I understood it in the end but this guy (dear instructor) always used to poke his nose telling me to do things which I was about to do…so when I was about to change the lane and get in the correct one to leave at the roundabout exit, this guy thought I was sleeping so he snatched the steering and moved it! He then exclaimed why I wasn’t doing it. My terse response was..”you dont have to shout” and then we quietly continued to the test center where I opted him to stay at the center while I take the test rather than sitting in the backseat

The examiner was rather good. The test works here in a way that he asks you a couple of questions about the car and then you’re supposed to drive for about 45 minutes on different kinds of roads. You can do 15 minor mistakes but no more than 3 in any one category. These are trivial…they can mark you for no reason at times. Like, once I moved the car giving the indicator but he marked it as a minor because there was no car behind and hence the indicator wasn’t needed..WTF? The manoeuvers part was easy .. parallel (reverse) parking and reversing round a corner road..piece of cake…another mistake was ‘anticipation and planning’ again I didn’t really know what that was. The test was quite stressful and went on to last about 55 minutes thanks to some traffic jams. I did a total of six minor faults only one of which I thought was credible. So now I have a full UK licence which I can use anywhere…even on Mars

Car hunting sucks! Whichever car I like is either sold quickly (before the weekend) or it is not accessbile. With accessibility I mean that its hard to get to that place using public transport. None of my friends have a car :\ Well, actually none of my close friends have it and you can’t really ask non-close ones for such favours, or atleast I can’t.

Just to fill in the gaps…I got my driving licence on 24th of Feb…a real eventful day. I was SO tensed about the test that I had taken a full day off despite the test not taking more than 3 hours including all the travelling but I thought I wouldn’t really want to get back to work after a failed test attempt. A valid reason, given that the passing ratio of that center is among the lowest in UK. Less than 40%! And why did I register with this test center? Because these wise people who are called friends and relatives never revealed those stats to me earlier. How nice!

And no one that I know of got it in the first attempt so I was mentally prepared to fail it and … if you don’t know … i fear failure! This fear is one thing that motivates me to work hard.

So my fatass instructor came on time to pick me up at 8.30 in the morning. I took the driving seat while he lit his cigarette. We didn’t talk for the first 15 minutes after which he broke the ice by asking why I was quiet today. I told him perhaps I was nervous and he laughed it off saying .. so what if you fail? *Idiot* We continued driving until we hit a roundabout…my nemesis…actually i was finding it tough to negotiate the larger roundabouts at first, but then I understood it in the end but this guy (dear instructor) always used to poke his nose telling me to do things which I was about to do…so when I was about to change the lane and get in the correct one to leave at the roundabout exit, this guy thought I was sleeping so he snatched the steering and moved it! He then exclaimed why I wasn’t doing it. My terse response was..”you dont have to shout” and then we quietly continued to the test center where I opted him to stay at the center while I take the test rather than sitting in the backseat

The examiner was rather good. The test works here in a way that he asks you a couple of questions about the car and then you’re supposed to drive for about 45 minutes on different kinds of roads. You can do 15 minor mistakes but no more than 3 in any one category. These are trivial…they can mark you for no reason at times. Like, once I moved the car giving the indicator but he marked it as a minor because there was no car behind and hence the indicator wasn’t needed..WTF? The manoeuvers part was easy .. parallel (reverse) parking and reversing round a corner road..piece of cake…another mistake was ‘anticipation and planning’ again I didn’t really know what that was. The test was quite stressful and went on to last about 55 minutes thanks to some traffic jams. I did a total of six minor faults only one of which I thought was credible. So now I have a full UK licence which I can use anywhere…even on Mars

Now the real deal is not getting a car but managing it with high insurance costs and those financial stuff. A new licence holder under 25 years of age is a high-risk so he gets to pay atleast 4 times more than usual. Also, there is a two year probationary period on the licence; six penalty points and the hard-earned licence is gone. So the  grass isn’t really green on this side, its rotten here but just smells a lil different.

PS. Why am I not blogging regularly? I don’t know. Just dont feel like it.