A Test Pass

Well done to AJ on Monday, who passed with just 4 driver faults.

I’ve had pupils before who were so nervous they were throwing up, but AJ is the first one who was just about shitting himself (literally). We had to stop at the test centre for him to go to the loo!

Of course, it doesn’t always go to plan. I had two fails this week, as well. Both had a small number of driver faults, but each made one silly mistake:

• going into a right-turn lane to go ahead just outside the test centre (how many times have we discussed why we shouldn’t automatically migrate into the chav lane unless we have a good reason to by looking ahead and planning)

and

• missing the 60mph to 30mph change on Coventry Lane, Bramcote then saying they “thought is was 40mph” when I asked them about it (which actually makes it worse, because it means they knew the limit had changed, but not what it had changed to)

Both are good drivers, so I’m sure they’ll pass next time.