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<\/p>\nI picked one of my pupils up for his lesson last week, and he informed me he had failed his theory test. When I questioned him, it became clear he\u2019d failed on the hazard perception part. He\u2019d scored 0 for it – no points whatsoever for any of the 14 clips. <\/p>\n
I know he\u2019d been practising, because getting his licence is important to him. So what happened for him to get no points at all?<\/p>\n
He fell asleep!<\/p>\n
Yup. As the HPT began, he just sat there and fell asleep. I could scarcely believe it<\/p>\n
What caused it was a combination of things. To begin with, he is a carer, and that means he works stupid hours for little more than the minimum wage. Secondly, he has a baby daughter, and he has to look after her when his wife\u2019s at work and he\u2019s not. I figure that some nights he must not get any sleep at all.<\/p>\n
But as if those two things on their own were not enough, I have discovered that he now has a second job in a hospital. It hasn\u2019t started yet, but it is the one he\u2019s been looking for as it carries higher pay and greater security. When I asked him why he hasn\u2019t dumped the first job yet, his answer was that he is currently caring for someone and he wants to finish that before he hands in his notice. What a great guy.<\/p>\n
He nearly didn\u2019t go to the interview, either. When they called him he realised he had no one to look after the baby and said he wouldn\u2019t be able to make it – to which they replied \u201cbring the baby along\u201d. So he did.<\/p>\n
In the latter years of my time in the rat race, I was literally praying nightly for something to happen which meant I didn\u2019t have to put up with unnecessary crap any more (my prayers were answered, of course, and I became a driving instructor). If I\u2019d have had to put up with any more nonsense from those prats I worked for I think it would have killed me. But this pupil has it even worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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