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lionmettled replied to your post:Folks, I have had A Day. It’s not all Tumblr…
Well congrats on the car $$$ and 15 years! and you failed the driving test 4 times? i failed it 8 times.
HA HA HA darling @wyomingnot has pointed out that uh, 2016-2002= 14, so. I can still make plans for the 15th anniversary. HILARIOUS. I told you I was dyscalculic.
Super pumped about the car money. I don’t get paid to work on the farm and I am constantly worried about being a drain and a second car payment would be ugh ugh ugh so this is a huge load off my mind.
I took the road test 5 times and only passed because the last time, it was the lady who’d had me my second time, and she’d ALMOST passed me that time. That’s the thing! I’m a phenomenal driver, in terms of actually operating the machine. I’m just terrible because my attention is easily diverted and I lose focus. Like, if i have an instructor in the car with me and I’m nervous. Give me terrible conditions and a faulty car and I will get there, I will get you home– I once drove 300 miles including through a traffic jam with no brakes whatsoever, I once drove through a two-inch-an-hour blizzard and made it home even though the snow was coming up my bumper and over the hood and onto the windshield, I can do anything in a car.
Except pass a fucking test. Because I can’t really handle distractions. So the instructor was like, “wait, you’re the one I failed because you nicked the curb on the broken K turn,” and I was like, “sure was, man,” and she was like, “are you only just now retaking it?” and I said “no ma’am, this is my fifth attempt”, and she was like, “you nearly had it six months ago!” and I said, “I’m bitterly aware of that ma’am”, and she was like “you can’t look around corners, why are you so uptight” and I said, “four fails, ma’am, they’ll find something, I’m just starting to look extra early”, and so when I drove the car in a shaky little circle around the block she said “that is not a mandatory fail, so you pass now, you poor creature” and I got out and kissed the ground because not having a license in rural upstate NY is DOOM, it means no job and no prospects, you can’t do anything, there’s zero public transport, you have no options, and I was a hostage to that damned clipboard.
And like. A hundred bucks a pop to take the test. Ugh. I don’t even remember. it was more money than I even had, because I was unemployed, because I couldn’t get to a job.
I would love to know how someone could fail 8 times because I’ve never met anyone who even failed it as many times as me, but it is super okay if you don’t want to tell the story, the failing 4 times thing is something it’s only sort of recent that I can talk about now because it was literally twenty years ago oh my lord.
(And it’s not fair, I’m a really good driver. I swear. If I had any executive function at all I’d have a clean record but uh. I’m super bad about understanding what to do if/when I get a ticket. Still and all, I think most of that’s off my record by now. I think I told the almost going to jail because I can’t get my shit together story pretty recently so we’ll let that one hang for now.)
lionmettled replied to your post:Folks, I have had A Day. It’s not all Tumblr…
Well congrats on the car $$$ and 15 years! and you failed the driving test 4 times? i failed it 8 times.
HA HA HA darling @wyomingnot has pointed out that uh, 2016-2002= 14, so. I can still make plans for the 15th anniversary. HILARIOUS. I told you I was dyscalculic.
Super pumped about the car money. I don’t get paid to work on the farm and I am constantly worried about being a drain and a second car payment would be ugh ugh ugh so this is a huge load off my mind.
I took the road test 5 times and only passed because the last time, it was the lady who’d had me my second time, and she’d ALMOST passed me that time. That’s the thing! I’m a phenomenal driver, in terms of actually operating the machine. I’m just terrible because my attention is easily diverted and I lose focus. Like, if i have an instructor in the car with me and I’m nervous. Give me terrible conditions and a faulty car and I will get there, I will get you home– I once drove 300 miles including through a traffic jam with no brakes whatsoever, I once drove through a two-inch-an-hour blizzard and made it home even though the snow was coming up my bumper and over the hood and onto the windshield, I can do anything in a car.
Except pass a fucking test. Because I can’t really handle distractions. So the instructor was like, “wait, you’re the one I failed because you nicked the curb on the broken K turn,” and I was like, “sure was, man,” and she was like, “are you only just now retaking it?” and I said “no ma’am, this is my fifth attempt”, and she was like, “you nearly had it six months ago!” and I said, “I’m bitterly aware of that ma’am”, and she was like “you can’t look around corners, why are you so uptight” and I said, “four fails, ma’am, they’ll find something, I’m just starting to look extra early”, and so when I drove the car in a shaky little circle around the block she said “that is not a mandatory fail, so you pass now, you poor creature” and I got out and kissed the ground because not having a license in rural upstate NY is DOOM, it means no job and no prospects, you can’t do anything, there’s zero public transport, you have no options, and I was a hostage to that damned clipboard.
And like. A hundred bucks a pop to take the test. Ugh. I don’t even remember. it was more money than I even had, because I was unemployed, because I couldn’t get to a job.
I would love to know how someone could fail 8 times because I’ve never met anyone who even failed it as many times as me, but it is super okay if you don’t want to tell the story, the failing 4 times thing is something it’s only sort of recent that I can talk about now because it was literally twenty years ago oh my lord.
(And it’s not fair, I’m a really good driver. I swear. If I had any executive function at all I’d have a clean record but uh. I’m super bad about understanding what to do if/when I get a ticket. Still and all, I think most of that’s off my record by now. I think I told the almost going to jail because I can’t get my shit together story pretty recently so we’ll let that one hang for now.)
