I PASSED MY DRIVERS TEST!!! YAY!!
June 11th, 2007 by Kemar
I am finally legally allowed to drive by myself and without an instructor, I have finally acquired my driver’s license. This means that those Driving lessons have come to an end and I no longer have to see my driving instructor unless he decides to report be for speeding.
So its like 7AM this morning and my driving instructor picks me up from home and takes me up by the Licensing Authority and seeing as the traffic is going to be heavy and we wanted to get up there early he decided to drive. On his way up there he was like don’t drive the way i am driving right now on that test today. And this is the same man that always tells me to watch my speed. Kinda do as I say not as I do.
So we get up there around 8 and he shows me where I am supposed to go and register and pay and stuff like that. The place opens officially at 8:30 AM and already they were a large number of people out side, but I was so happy when I heard that the people coming to do the driver’s test had first priority. Which was a huge relief because that line was long. What made me laugh was when I got inside to see 14 booths and only 3 people working them, which made me ask myself why the hell are there so many booths when they don’t have enough people to work them. Although we got first priority and they were only a few of us I did not leave in there not until 15 minutes later which was ridiculous as they had a staff meeting as soon as they open which I felt should not have happened.
I head across the compound to another building to officially register for the test, when i got there I had to fill out a paper that I had originally filled out when I got my permit, because they had some how missed placed mines. I filled it out again and finally went down in the vehicle and sat down and waited for the person testing me to come on over, and boy was this a long wait.
Although I had an 8:30AM appointment I did not start the test until some where around 11AM. When the tester finally arrived he made me go through the hand signals before moving off. After hearing some of the other guys tested talking about how people had failed, i put on my seat belt before i started the vehicle could not fail for that I said to myself.
Left there did my hand signals, drove some where did some reversing and then made my way back the the Authority. My test lasted about 15 or 20 minutes if that long. I was so happy that it had finally been over because I was nervous as hell, although the tester tried his best to calm me down. I made sure that I did not speed or break any rules of the road while doing the test.
After this I went back into the office with the tester then I got a certificate stating that I had passed the test and went back over to the original office that I had gone to pay, when I saw that line I called my mother and told her not to expect me home anytime soon, then she asked me if I had passed but I had to intentions of telling her but somehow she heard that I was happy in my voice. Thankfully some guy in the line I was in over heard my conversation and told me that I was in the wrong line, and which line to go in, which was much shorter. So when i finally get to the cashier I give her the papers and then she told me I am missing some pictures, so not only had they lost my form but they lost the pictures which meant that I had to go and get some more taken. So I left and got them taken over and came back.
After that I went back int he yard with my instructor who had to leave and take another person out for a test, there I saw my brother in crime, the guy whom I terrorised my school with. We talked for a while until his test was over and he was talking about how this was his 3rd try. When I got home I learnt that he also failed that day too.
So while waiting for my instructor to take me home i over heard some of the other instructors talking about how their students drive. Once even went as far as to say that there was this girl who always held the steering tightly so when he went to take over he could not, then he explained to her that she should hold like she was jerking off her boyfriend, which meant that she could not hold it so tightly. I know she had to feel embarrassed at that point.
So that was my day.