I was on a lesson this afternoon, and we were running through some of the manoeuvres. We'd just done the parallel park and were doing a turn in the road so we could leave the cul-de-sac we were in.
My pupil gets ready, checks all around, then drives over the road to the other side. No problem so far. Then…
[We reach the other side. No gear change (leaves it in 1st), just handbrake]
[Finds the bite, checks all around. Handbrake off and we move forward]
[Footbrake. Handbrake. Finds the bite, looks all around. Handbrake off and we move forward again]
[Puzzled look]
She: Why are we still going forward?
Me: Maybe if we use the right gear?
She: Oh .
She also told me (her actual words were "you'll laugh when I tell you") that the theory test she had booked for the 30th of October is actually on the 30th of November – she made a mistake when she was booking it and only discovered it when the confirmation came through the post.
Just for good measure, we also had a couple of cases of me saying "turn right (or left) at the…" and she trying to turn or indicate before I'd even finished the sentence!