This morning went really well and if I had known it was going to be that easy I would have been a lot less stressed out about the whole thing. The test consisted of reversing out of my angled parking space (much easier than ones parallel to the kerb), pulling out into the main road and doing 3 right turns, followed by a left back into the testing car park. I then had to do the manoevrability test which was pretty simple too. Just before I did the manoeuvres I asked if I was allowed to lean out of the window and I was - the only thing I wasn't allowed to do was to hit the cones or run them over. This was the main thing that I was concerned about as when the cones are out in the parking lot you can't practise with them and when they are not out, it is very difficult to see where they are placed as you rely on a painted square on the ground. In fact when we were practising last night I had to get Kristen to get out of the car and stand on one of the spots so I had an idea where the poles would be.
The practise was worthwhile though as I did this with no problems. I also found out that they introduced this test when they stopped doing the parallel park - something we had spent quite some time on practising as it's quite different when you do it on the "wrong" side of the car.
Whilst doing the test the extremely nice examiner was asking me questions about how long I had been over here and noted that I wasn't wasting any time in getting the licence (3 weeks to the day) and asked how Kristen and I met and we had a nice chat which reduced the nerves and also showed that I was capable of driving AND thinking at the same time :-)
Anyway, I got the piece of paper to say I had passed with no points deducted in either of the two driving pieces or the written test, so what can I say - perfect all round :-)
The only downside is that I couldn't get the full licence straight away as we didn't have my Social Security card with the correct number on it (my learner permit had the wrong number on) so we had to drive to another dmv centre after stopping at home to get the card. (oh and the other downside is I'm not insured to drive the porsche :-( )
I passed my test!
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You have a Porsche? Since when? It must feel nice to be rich :)
Actually its the PIL who has the porsche and he paid less for it than I paid for my first car which was a skoda!
Congrats!