{"id":1027,"date":"2009-04-08T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-04-08T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T00:23:04","slug":"a-nice-pass-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"A Nice Pass Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday (Tuesday) really. Well done FB &#8211; passed with 7 driver faults. This was her first test with me, though she&#8217;d taken it and failed several times before.<\/p>\n<p>The best part about this one was that she didn&#8217;t expect to pass and was absolutely elated when she did (I had to force her to take the test otherwise she never would have &#8211; she was a much better driver than she gave herself credit for, and I had to make her see this).<\/p>\n<p>It really made my day &#8211; even if my last pupil did his level best to screw it up by arguing. 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