{"id":19458,"date":"2016-05-29T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19458"},"modified":"2016-05-29T01:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T00:53:43","slug":"more-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19458","title":{"rendered":"More Than Meets The Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this in my newsfeeds. It\u2019s the story of someone who wanted to be a driving instructor<\/a>, handed over \u00a32,000 for his training to Pass N Go, and then couldn\u2019t get his money back when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (the severe type, which meant he could no longer drive).\"puzzle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris James, from Newcastle, had spent a lot of his working life travelling abroad and wanted to settle back in the UK as an instructor. There was a clause in the contract he signed with Pass N Go which said he only had 14 days during which he could cancel the deal. He says he had had \u201csome issues which delayed\u2026 starting training\u201d, but then he was diagnosed and it came as a shock.<\/p>\n

On the strength of this, you immediately take sides against Pass N Go\u2026 until you hear their side of the story.<\/p>\n

Simon Kernohan from Pass N Go says that Mr James initially postponed the commencement of his training because he said his house in Taiwan had been flooded. As a result, his allocated trainer was sitting around \u201ctwiddling his thumbs\u201d, and when Mr Kernohan tried to contact Mr James, he was unsuccessful. He added:<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a nice enough fella and I feel sorry for him but we have already bent over backwards to help him out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see it from both sides. If Mr James had simply been diagnosed with diabetes then you\u2019d hope that Pass N Go would have been more sympathetic. Of course, the usual cynics out there would disagree \u2013 all<\/strong> training companies are bad as far as they\u2019re concerned! However, most instructors will have experienced the pupil who misses ten times more lessons than anyone else, and yet always has a plausible excuse. One of mine some years ago had so many ailing grandparents that I\u2019m sure her father must have been a polygamist, and she cost me a fortune in lost lessons until I told her I couldn\u2019t afford not <\/strong>to teach her anymore.<\/p>\n

So you can\u2019t simply rule out the possibility that Mr James had already burnt his bridges somewhat with the flooded Taiwan home story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this in my newsfeeds. It\u2019s the story of someone who wanted to be a driving instructor, handed over \u00a32,000 for his training to Pass N Go, and then couldn\u2019t get his money back when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (the severe type, which meant he could no longer drive). Chris James, […]<\/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_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}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}