I failed my road test...twice

CIA
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:41:06 +0000

In Virginia, we have “Behind the Wheel”. After you complete Drivers Ed at school (which must be taken to graduate, no exceptions) you have 14 hours of driving “instruction”. 7 of which you just drive around (our guy didn’t check any of our skills, we just did errands for him and dropped teachers off at their house, lol) and 7 watching the other student in the car drive. So it’s only 7 sessions, 2 hours each. You turn in a signed sheet by your parents confirming you have driven at least 45 hours, 15 of which occurred after sunset, and voila! You have a 180 day provisional license.

About 2 months later, you get called to court where you listen to a judge ramble for an hour about drunk driving and what to do if you get pulled over. And then you get your actual license.

Funny story my judge told us: A girl who went before him got pulled over on the interstate. The cop put his flashers on and she stopped. In the middle of the lane on a major traffic interstate. Just stopped in the middle of the lane instead of pulling off to the shoulder. She must have been blonde.