Well done Bryn, who passed first time today with just 5 driver faults. He shared the same sense of humour as me – sarcasm – especially when he’d done something wrong, so he’s been a great pupil to teach. We’ve had a lot of laughs.
It was a good start moving away from his house. I said, “when you’re ready, off we go”, and nothing happened. Then, nothing happened some more. He went for the ignition key, and I said “it’s on – unless you’ve stalled it” (he hadn’t). Then, nothing happened one more time. I leaned over and said “it goes better if you use the gas instead of the brake!” And then, later, there was that cardinal sin which is guaranteed to open my sarcastic floodgates – following other traffic.
I can never explain why perfectly competent drivers – and I know they are competent – do silly things like this, but Bryn is an excellent driver and was nervous as hell. So it all worked out well in the end.