Have to take a dam road test friday!
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Petra
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Seriously...you shouldn't complain. I'm finally getting around to getting my dutch drivers license and you'd have a heart attack and keel over at what I have to pay to get it.
About 55 euro a lesson until the driving school "feels" like issuing me a certificate so I can take my tests (have to take 2). Hopefully I can get the package of 5 lessons and be done with it. 45 euro for the theory exam + about 120 euro for the study material. 200 euro for the preliminary and 200 for the practical exam and then something like 55 euro for the actual license.
:thefinger
About 55 euro a lesson until the driving school "feels" like issuing me a certificate so I can take my tests (have to take 2). Hopefully I can get the package of 5 lessons and be done with it. 45 euro for the theory exam + about 120 euro for the study material. 200 euro for the preliminary and 200 for the practical exam and then something like 55 euro for the actual license.
:thefinger
^ Is your driving school like the Finnish driving school?
Fuck I Envy Europe in that aspect (or Finland if theirs is that much different... everything I've seen and read about it seems really strict and REAL)... Maybe America wouldn't have so many retarded ass drivers if we taught everyone how to ACTUALLY drive at an early age.
...oh yeah, and MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT!!!
Fuck I Envy Europe in that aspect (or Finland if theirs is that much different... everything I've seen and read about it seems really strict and REAL)... Maybe America wouldn't have so many retarded ass drivers if we taught everyone how to ACTUALLY drive at an early age.
...oh yeah, and MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT!!!
I hope you fitted newer tires. I know it is frustrating, especially when you guys have hot weather. (The States seems to have received our weather). Here in Oregon there is no parallel parking test either. I passed my test 1st time after eight lessons. I needed to learn how to drive on the wrong side of the road!
Oregon, eh? You didn't happen to take your test at the Sherwood DMV did you? I admittedly at the time I took my license test was a horrible driver who didn't give a fuck, and 10 minutes after I got in the car with the instructor my picture was being taken for my license... America hands out licenses' like they are dirt. Motherfuckers. I wish I could control the DMV for all of this country, I'd change so much and be EXTREMELY strict.
If you know somebody with one that will let you use it You Might want to consider taking a super compact car if you have trouble parallel parking. A smaller car definitely helps those people.
I remember when I was taking driving classes and they assigned me a mini-van to work with that was hard to see out of the back of. I was pretty good and once you can master something like that everything smaller is easy.
I remember when I was taking driving classes and they assigned me a mini-van to work with that was hard to see out of the back of. I was pretty good and once you can master something like that everything smaller is easy.
Petra
Cult Mother and Simpering Cunt
No...this is pretty standard I guess. And don't think for a second shelling out a few thousand Euros to jump through all the hoops makes for better drivers. The dutch are pretty frightening on the road. Though, not as bad as the French on mountain roads.
Of course what really galls me is people who are coming over for work can just trade in their US drivers license but everyone else has to go through the lessons.
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EDIT: you gotta move fast on this forum: ^#28.
Ja I was kind of surprised. The tester told me she could see I drive safely.
I had a good instructor for about 8 lessons. I really just needed to learn how to drive on the right hand side.
South Africa has the K53 system. This means blind spot mirror mirror mirror blind spot after every stop.
You need alley dockey, parallel parking, 3 point turn and the step hill. Let your car roll back an inch you fail instantly.
Buuuuut, I copied this: http://anewsouthafrica.com/2008/07/...ing-a-license-can-be-far-harder-than-driving/
It makes for a really interesting little read.
One can wait up to two years to get a licence, as the backlog is so great in booking and handling applications. Call centres are really slow.
I think our OP would have burnt the buildings down, or crashed his vehicle into one of them out of frustration.
I was extremely impressed at the speed in which my application was handled. In fact how quick the processes are in government departments here. I received my social security number within a week. In South Africa I could have probably waited anything from 6 months to two years for an ID.
Talking of traffic, in fact, this afternoon I stood looking at the cars on the highway. Perfect following distance with each vehicle. In South Africa there is probably one car length between cars.
I remember on a major artery road running though suburbs there was a crash a week.
Don't even get me started on the minivans. They drive on the pavement.
I was fortunate. The company I was with sent me for driving lessons, so I stayed on their campus for two weeks learning how to drive. I could even manuever carefully through congested traffic in one of the busiest spots in downtown Johannesburg. If you can drive there, you can drive anywhere.
Ja I was kind of surprised. The tester told me she could see I drive safely.
I had a good instructor for about 8 lessons. I really just needed to learn how to drive on the right hand side.
South Africa has the K53 system. This means blind spot mirror mirror mirror blind spot after every stop.
You need alley dockey, parallel parking, 3 point turn and the step hill. Let your car roll back an inch you fail instantly.
Buuuuut, I copied this: http://anewsouthafrica.com/2008/07/...ing-a-license-can-be-far-harder-than-driving/
It makes for a really interesting little read.
One can wait up to two years to get a licence, as the backlog is so great in booking and handling applications. Call centres are really slow.
I think our OP would have burnt the buildings down, or crashed his vehicle into one of them out of frustration.
I was extremely impressed at the speed in which my application was handled. In fact how quick the processes are in government departments here. I received my social security number within a week. In South Africa I could have probably waited anything from 6 months to two years for an ID.
Talking of traffic, in fact, this afternoon I stood looking at the cars on the highway. Perfect following distance with each vehicle. In South Africa there is probably one car length between cars.
I remember on a major artery road running though suburbs there was a crash a week.
Don't even get me started on the minivans. They drive on the pavement.
I was fortunate. The company I was with sent me for driving lessons, so I stayed on their campus for two weeks learning how to drive. I could even manuever carefully through congested traffic in one of the busiest spots in downtown Johannesburg. If you can drive there, you can drive anywhere.
NJ DMV does blow. They are all idiots and assholes! Fuck them. They are the devils asshole. I register my cars in florida now because it is easy and i can tint the front windows. Another stupid law in NJ i hate the government assholes here. Everyone of them suck!
