I HAVE A DRIVER'S LISCENSE!!!!

[3rdragon]

Yes I do! I thought that I'd failed the parallel parking because I chickened out and didn't angle back sharply enough - which I realized immediately after my first pull back - (also because that annoying orange cone meant that I was a foot farther from the curb that I'm used to, which threw me off) and finished my third pull forward with my back tire on the white line, but he had me keep doing the test. I guess that having a tire on the line doesn't give you enough points to fail the test, but that being outside the box does fail you. So I thought I'd failed, and then spent the rest of the test going, If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass. If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass. If I do this perfectly, I think I can still pass . . . and apparently I did, because I passed. He had me worried for a moment there, though. It was the same examiner I had last time, and he didn't unfreeze at all and used exactly the same tone and wording to tell me I'd passed as he did to fail me last time.

But yes, I passed!
We went to get groceries after the test, and I parallel parked on a dime, right snug to the curb (in two pull forwards and two pull backs, thank you very much!). I'm really good at parallel parking, except when I'm nervous and chicken out on the angles. I have to be, since mom's street is so small that any car not right against the curb gets its mirrors hacked off.
And then I drove Isaac over to dad's house without an adult.


Observation for the day:
Like fencing referees, driver's test examiners should also be called Sir (or Ma'am), and being used to using Sir in fencing makes using it on other people less awkward/unusual.

Comments

[annyihra.livejournal.com]

Congrats. :D

[3rdragon]

Thankee.

[banzaisebastian.livejournal.com]

Yay! Driver's licenses are good. Congrats! =3

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Heee. Excellent observation on the "sir" and "ma'am" ing. I find that I use it more often after fencing myself. Especially with teachers. (Of course, sometimes it goes overboard in my brain, and I have a hard time NOT saying "Yes, Captain Randy sir!" to my Macroeconomics professor. He'd probably take it in stride, though.)

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! And congrats!

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

Yay, congratulations!

[tigerlofu.livejournal.com]

Congrats.. When you come back I'll take you out for icecream to celebrate...

[3rdragon]

"Yes, Captain Randy sir!"

*laugh*
I dare you to.
And give me a full report.

[3rdragon]

Oh!
Ice cream.
Yum.

And thanks for all the congrats. I'm not going to reply to each post because that would get boring. So I'm just going to say thanks (and also thanks for all the well-wishing beforehand, which I didn't mention in the main post).

Whoohoo!

[animangel.livejournal.com]

Yay for being able to drive.
And, yeah, I made the worst parallel parking job I've ever done when I took my exam. But I did manage to park the car. It was the last thing, and the instructor had us pull back in and started writing something, then handed me a piece of paper to sign.
It was my temporary liscence.
I looked at the instructor. "Wait...I passed?"
The instructor looked at me and said, "If we failed everyone who messed that up the first try, no one would have their license."
Did you have your road test (in its entirety, including the parallel parking) on the street?

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By the way, does your state have an annoying rule that the only passengers you're allowed to have for your first month are family members or people you were qualified to drive with on your permit?

Re: Whoohoo!

[3rdragon]

The parallel parking wasn't on the street - it was in a parking lot (which is partially responsible for me failing the test the first time; if I'd been on the street I would have used my turn signals when parallel parking. Since no one else was allowed in the parking lot I was in, I forgot that time. The second time around I was careful not to do that.

No, Pennsylvania doesn't have any annoying rules regarding who I can carry as passengers. Of course, it will be nearly a month before I have access to a car again anyway, so it isn't really as if it matters.

[pulsebeat.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Well, on Talk Like a Pirate day, I did say "It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, Captain Randy, sir!" when he asked why I was dressed funny.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Also, daring me to do something doesn't always pass beyond what I'd do in my normal scope of behavior.

I mean, I DID ask Professor Westerdale if he'd finally turned into a werewolf.

[3rdragon]

Yes, but it might encourage you.