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I saw someone post an online comment about having seen \u201ca big school car\u201d driving in the middle lane of a motorway, and then implying that this in some way meant that every ADI who works for that \u201cbig school\u201d is therefore pants.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just another variation of the \u201cindie is better because I\u2019m<\/strong> indie\u201d or \u201call franchises suck\u201d arguments.<\/p>\n The comedian who posted it then tried to argue that it wasn\u2019t part of a driving lesson by stating that it was at 10.00pm at night – presumably because he doesn\u2019t work that late (he certainly isn\u2019t tonight, as he obviously has time to post this). That made me smile, because I have done lessons until midnight on various occasions. I frequently get pupils who can only do 8-10pm lessons because of work commitments, and I have one right now who is at a boarding school, and who does 8-9pm every lesson. He\u2019s already mentioned upping them to two hours at some point. In the past, some who had tests looming, either because of their own availability or my diary loading, opted to take a few additional lessons between 8pm and 11pm.<\/p>\n Two of my super-late ones were Pass Plus motorway sessions, where the drivers had booked them in the middle of summer, and in order to get the night time module in, we had to start late. I wonder what some of these super-indies do when they have to cover that? My guess is that their mouth does most of the work, and the driver very little. And they say only franchised instructors are bad!<\/p>\n Then another one chimed in with an example of one of \u201cthe big schools\u201d cutting her up, so therefore all big schools are pants. Like no ADI has ever<\/strong> been cut up (or overtaken) by another indie when we\u2019re driving at the speed limit. The likelihood of that is all the greater when said indie is in an Audi or BMW. I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again, but people who drive Audis generally don\u2019t buy them to drive within the speed limit all the time when the car can do 2\u00bd times that with ease. Nor do they buy them with the intention of staying behind anyone else if they have the chance to overtake. This holds whether they\u2019re members of the public or off-duty ADIs<\/p>\n And then there was the claim that phoned complaints are ignored by the big schools, as if the school involved is going to dish the dirt to the complainant so they can gloat over it. I know for a fact that several national schools contact the ADI in question and ask them about it. It is their<\/strong> name which at stake, and they take it very seriously. I have no idea what happens after that, because it\u2019s none of my bloody business, but if there is sufficient evidence then the ADI in question will undoubtedly be reprimanded. If complaints are regular, they could easily lose their franchise.<\/p>\n What makes me laugh is that many of these super-indies used to be franchised – often to these same schools. And they still can\u2019t see that they\u2019re no different now, other than for what is written on their car.<\/p>\n My pet hate is the apparent arrogance of other instructors. I\u2019ve mentioned this before, but the one thing that makes my blood boil is going into an empty car park – or an empty part of a car park if it\u2019s a big one, like the Chilwell P+R – and having some total moron (and I\u2019ve seen an AA car doing it as well as many indies) come into the same empty area, when there are at least half a dozen similarly empty areas they could go to. The other day, some dickhead indie was using the P+R as a nursery route, and so basically getting in everyone\u2019s way, and he kept going round and round and coming into the far corner where I\u2019d gone. And then there are the ones who go in there to practice one of the bay park manoeuvres, but instead of going to a quieter area, insist on doing it in the section marked \u201cexit\u201d where all car park users have to go through, thus guaranteeing that they\u2019re in everyone\u2019s<\/strong> way.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t arrogance, though. It\u2019s just sheer stupidity. They simply don\u2019t have a clue, and that\u2019s<\/strong> what they\u2019re teaching their pupils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw someone post an online comment about having seen \u201ca big school car\u201d driving in the middle lane of a motorway, and then implying that this in some way meant that every ADI who works for that \u201cbig school\u201d is therefore pants. It\u2019s just another variation of the \u201cindie is better because I\u2019m indie\u201d […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"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\/22972","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=22972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}