{"id":11403,"date":"2013-01-01T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2013-01-01T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:05:48","slug":"dont-spill-that-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11403","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Spill That Drink!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some strange things come in on the newsfeeds. A recent one was from a Yahoo! question someone had asked about a film they saw where the driving examiner put a cup of coffee on the dashboard and told the candidate they would pass if they didn\u2019t spill any \"Aduring the test.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the film (American) was called License to Drive (1988), and you can see the clip on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I use the same technique sometimes. Not with an actual drink – I\u2019d just get wet if I did that – but if I have a pupil who tends to drive and brake a bit unevenly (e.g. \u201clike a sack of spanners falling down some stairs\u201d is one description I have used before), I might suggest that they imagine they have a cup of tea sitting on the dashboard and that they should try to avoid sloshing any of it into the saucer as they move off and stop. It\u2019s surprising how often it works.<\/p>\n

Mind you, before the benefits have kicked in there are other occasions where if we\u2019d been using a real cup and saucer it would have ended up through the windscreen and 20 feet down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some strange things come in on the newsfeeds. A recent one was from a Yahoo! question someone had asked about a film they saw where the driving examiner put a cup of coffee on the dashboard and told the candidate they would pass if they didn\u2019t spill any during the test. Apparently, the film (American) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,102,103,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-movie-tv-related","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t