Once you pass your test the real driving begins,you will find it goes through cycles of not many fruit loops and then days where their all out in force being fruity.

Get on the motorway as soon as possible to give yourself some experience.

Dunno if i should say it after all that but um....well done WUB

I passed my driving test today.

Let me ask a question. A rhetorical question. In what way did today's test demonstrate that I am a competent road user? Trundling around West Didsbury at snail's pace and at one point being asked to do a three-point turn (which I could do the very first time I sat in the driver's seat. And have never once failed to do because you have to do it numerous video games!). A significant proportion of the test was in 20mph zones. You can virtually get out and push faster than that.

In no way have I demonstrated any competence to drive at speeds of over 40mph, and 90% of the test was at speeds slower than this. Furthermore, it only lasted 25 minutes, yet I could have made 14 mistakes and passed! But...if I was in the wrong lane at the wrong time, I would have failed, even though no other road users give a shit and blatantly flaunt the rules of the road all of the time. You must stick to the left-hand lane. Why? No fucker else is! Traffic in front of me in the middle lane is going straight on, traffic behind me in the middle lane is going straight on. None of those vehicles are in the left lane. Yes, but technically you must be in the left lane. Why? It says so on my test sheet.

It's a fucking joke. Tomorrow, if I could get one insured (which I could due to my age) I could go out and buy a Porsche and legally take it on the motorway. In no way have I demonstrated any ability to do that. Furthermore, I don't even know the rules of the road for a motorway! I literally have no idea how motorways work! But no-one could stop me. Yes, you can take a Pass Plus course, or even informally take lessons on motorways, but you don't have to do so.

I haven't even shown the instructor that I can drive safely at 60mph, in fact I barely demonstrated that I can drive safely at 40mph. None of the tricky manoeuvers were part of the test. Instead you get asked some daft questions about how you would test the parking brake is working, which I have never seen anyone do ever! I'm sure there is someone out there who checks that they've got enough windscreen washer fluid before every journey, but it's not any human being I've ever met! Oh, and I know the speed limit for cars towing caravans as well, which I'm sure will prove to be endlessly useful.

It's just a bureaucratic, box-ticking exercise that proves absolutely nothing. Quite honestly, I could have passed today's test after about five hours in a car, ten at the absolute most. It proves almost nothing with regard to your ability to pilot the vehicle.

But well done.... do have the motorway lessons they are worth it, and have a fair chance of saving your life at some point!

Hey, well done on passing your test WUB.

Maybe you'll get the opportunity to drive past that woman you were getting on with who blew you out because you didn't drive - preferably when she's shivering at a bus stop. Then you could be magnanimous and offer her a lift. ( Or possibly just give the royal wave with a smug smirk as you zoom past ).

I recently took an online theory test and passed all these years after passing my driving test. I've never even read the highway code! I guess that the cycling proficiency test I took when a child has stood me well.

Six hours work in the forest, moving treetrunks by hand is like going to the gym every day. Works wonders on my health, I'm in the same shape as I was in last spring when I was lifting weights several times a week and I've only worked for one and half months... By this pace I'll be in top shape by the autumn without doing much else.

Act like a thug.....

The problem you have with these scrotes is that, firstly, as you say they have no self-awareness. And then, secondly, they either don't care what happens to them because their lives are inevitably shit, or else they just act as if they don't care because they think they're supposed to act that way. My hometown is full of them, and you can't really say to them "I appreciate your socio-economic situation, but that's not my fault. If it was up to me there would be a different system in place"!