I was on a lesson tonight, and the pupil had got the mirrors set and we had just driven off from his house. Bearing in mind he has his test in a couple of weeks, after about a hundred metres he said:<\/p>\n
Is the mirror set on dim? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I glanced over and could just see the top of his head and most of the ceiling in it. I reached over, twitched the mirror downwards, and\u00a0replied:<\/p>\n
No. Only you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Earlier in the week, I was driving along with another pupil. We’d just gone past National Speed Limit signs, and he said:<\/p>\n
What’s the speed limit here? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I answered (surprised, as I know he knows what\u00a0these signs mean, and he’d accelerated anyway):<\/p>\n
It’s 60 – didn’t you see those NSL signs? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He replied:<\/p>\n
Yes, but why does it say 50 on those<\/em> signs? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I explained:<\/p>\n
There is a railway track up on that embankment, and they are there for the trains. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then again, today, I had one pupil who “lost it” (his own words) at a roundabout and tried to aim straight across it to take the exit we wanted, and then – after I grabbed the wheel – repeatedly tried to drive in any direction except on the road by engaging full lock one side, then the other. When I tried to get to the bottom of it (and I tried very hard), the only thing the pupil could say about why he did it was:<\/p>\n
I honestly don’t know. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I hate<\/em> that outcome.<\/p>\n
And also today (the same pupil who hadn’t adjusted his mirror properly), I said:<\/p>\n
At the roundabout, turn right, 3rd exit. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s a small roundabout, so we approach a little too fast, swing round quickly past exits 1 and 2, then past 3, and finally exit 4, at which point I grabbed\u00a0the wheel to prevent us going back the way we came (but slicing across two lanes, as it is a dual carriageway).<\/p>\n
And this is the bit that always gets me:<\/p>\n
Weren’t you counting the exits so you could take the correct one? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So why didn’t you take exit 3? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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