h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Congratulations *s*

PARTY!

[I have not gotten mine yet ]

another one for procrastination?

Congrats!

I really should get around to getting a license myself... Not that we can afford to insure a new driver right now anyway Then again, I've not been me since my birthday in 2002

Independence: 2-3?
Procrastination: 2.

you haven't been yourself since 4 years ago? who have you been?

*whispers--Four? It'll be three years on December 28*

My ID expired in 2002, so I haven't been anybody

ooh. the fringe of society. not legal. not really there. a sort of ghost among men. you keep it up! protesting privacy-invasion-by-govt and all htat stuff, or just never bothered renewing? (*clears throat* is this another one for procrastination?)

I only passed on my third try

Well done!

I was persuaded once to try driving, on a deserted track inside a mobile home park. Fully instructed in "this one is brake & this one makes it go faster, turn the round thing to make the car car go in different directions" & all that stuff.

I went less than two metres before toppling a tree. You think i am joking? Ask the owner of the caravan next to the poor tree.

The experiment was not repeated.

zdt

Sounds like my attempts. I can only practice when I'm at my mother's and it's all small, windy streets. The locals get very annoyed driving behind me!

my dad thinks it will make me a better driver if he pretends to have a heart attack every time I turn the corner too fast. The rest of the family comes along when i drive for the entertainment of watching it happen.

My family usually also rides along because we don't drive when we're not going somewhere anyway... my stepdad is a real backseat driver!

I am so paranoid in cars i can destroy the nerve of an experienced Formula One driver.

On more than one occasion i have been told to get in the back & had things placed over my head to stop me watching & shrieking. By different drivers, so it is *me* not them.

I managed to get from France to UK by being shoved in the back of a van with mucho and a sofa. However, they lost me on the ferry, which really pi**ed them off 'cos i had the keys (my bloody van mate!)


zdt*world's favourite passenger*

Then you must never drive with my grandmother, she drives like a out of hell!

Me? Fringe? *ahem* No...

For quite awhile I just didn't notice, then I got my learner's permit (again) so I didn't see much sense in paying to renew it and then getting a license... Hubby's schedule didn't allow for me to have practice time driving, so the permit expired last October. I'm not going to bother taking the written test again until I know that I'll be able to practice (since I've had several permits with a little bit of driving done with each, the only actual *learning* I have to do is parallel parking--the rest is just getting used to driving in traffic both on surface streets and on the highway) So why haven't I gotten a new ID then? Haven't gotten around to finding out what busses go to the DMV... Or seeing which Saturday of the month the nearest one is open so Tom can take me.

Paralell parking sounds distinctly scary. Do you have to be telepathic with the other driver?



zdt

No, it just means parking parallel to the road, rather than at right angles. I actually found THAT quite easy, but the rest...

Traveller in Time still practising
"For instance:

diagonal parking . . .

on the highway . . .

in the rush hour . . .

Or even worse, on the steep side of a hill. "

I don'T even get around to much practice