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I was furious today. My first lesson was at 10am and I turned up bang on time. The pupil was a few minutes late (he normally waits outside as I drive up), and I was just about to go and knock.<\/p>\n
So, he got in the car, and as he finished adjusting his mirrors he rubbed his face with both hands. That always makes me ask them if everything is OK – they are often unwell or haven’t slept for some reason.<\/p>\n
But then I registered the familiar smell of alcohol, and asked “were you out on the piss last night?” “Yes”, came the reply. He didn’t get in until after 1pm, and although I didn’t ask, he probably drank at least 16 units of beer.<\/p>\n
Working on the principle that it takes about an hour to get rid of one unit, I figure that he must have still had around 6 or more units in him – so three times over the drink-drive limit! (Those calculations are estimates<\/strong>, just in case one of the many, many pedants who become driving instructors are looking in).<\/p>\n We didn’t do the lesson. I read the riot act. And I charged him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was furious today. My first lesson was at 10am and I turned up bang on time. The pupil was a few minutes late (he normally waits outside as I drive up), and I was just about to go and knock. So, he got in the car, and as he finished adjusting his mirrors he […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers"],"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\/7284","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=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}