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How many times did it take you to pass your driving test?

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  • 08-12-2019 2:21am
    #1
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭


    Six. Terrible I know.


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    #2
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,561 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    1. But I shouldn’t have passed.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #3
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Passed first time over 20 years ago.


    Still learning.


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    #4
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Once,at the time they stopped all this letting people away with driving on a provisional stuff . Before that I just drove on a provisional .


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    #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Once. Think I dropped only one point or something.


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    #6
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    passed first time.

    always disappointed with the quality of road users nowadays.


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    #7
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,047 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Once. I wore leather hotpants, a boob tube and stilettos, but that had absolutely nothing to do with me being a success.

    To thine own self be true



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    #8
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Passed second time.
    I wasn't ready the first time if I'm honest.


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    #9
    The_Honeybadger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,155 ✭✭✭The_Honeybadger


    Passed first time at age 17. Assessor said I did a flawless test but to watch for parked cars opening doors. I will never forget the elation leaving the testing centre, mainly because my older brother who fancied himself as a great driver had failed several times and I had my licence before him. He was like a dog when I got home


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    #10
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,856 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    First time too. 10 years ago. My instructor told me not to show up for the test as I wasn’t ready and didn’t have the required competency yet to pass. I believed he was wrong, it proved I was right.


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    80sChild
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭80sChild


    Strumms wrote: »
    First time too. 10 years ago. My instructor told me not to show up for the test as I wasn’t ready and didn’t have the required competency yet to pass. I believed he was wrong, it proved I was right.

    First time too. Tester so professional and put me at ease. Easier to concentrate without excess anxiety. Great day.


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    windy shepard henderson
    Registered Users Posts: 5,827 ✭✭✭windy shepard henderson


    Your Face wrote: »
    Passed second time.
    I wasn't ready the first time if I'm honest.

    Same as this, pissed it the second time


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    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    My father bought me a Honda 50 when I was 12. I spent a few years driving it and a few others around a two acre field. When I was 16 and a day I got my licence £6 and insurance £132. I eventually did the test at 29 on a 1978 Kawasaki z1000.

    I passed the car test at 21 in England. No driving on your 5th provisional over there.


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    #14
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Passed it second time but to be fair, chanced my arm doing first test with a few weeks driving experience and about 3 lessons and quite rightly failed.


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    #15
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    One.


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    #16
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Anybody else just quickly skipping over the wanky first time look at me posts?


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    #17
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    My daughter 24 passed hers a few weeks ago at the first attempt. She wanted to wait till college was out of the way.

    Last week was the first week she's driven to and from work on her own.

    OMG so proud of my beautiful daughter .


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Failed first time in Irl.
    Passed first time in UK almost 40 years ago.


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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭highdef


    1


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    #20
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Passed first time too. Got in a bit before the mandatory driving lessons thing. Dropped 1 point on not putting on my hazards at a construction stop. The entire place was lit up with flashing orange lights, didn't think I needed to put mine on too. Ah well.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I actually posted this over ten years ago on boards. Anyone know what way that works? Why do some green ones have marks?

    IIRC, the greens ones are advisories, so you could have something like 10 of them to fail. Only a few of the next blue was a fail, and a red was an immediate fail.


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    #21
    yerwanthere123
    Registered Users, Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,333 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Passed the third time. Failed first time when I blatantly wasn't ready, failed the second time for someone that was at the very worst a grade 2 fault but the guy was a notorious cnut so chose to fail me. The same guy tested and passed me the third time, much to his very obvious disappointment that he didn't even try to hide. Didn't even tell me I'd passed or say congratulations, just slid the certificate of competency across the table and told me to sign it. Nice fella :pac:


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    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,299 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Passed first time, thought I failed when he said take the next right and went to turn in to a cemetery (suppose technically I wasn't wrong but didn't think that at the time)
    So delighted wanted to driver home but instructor wouldn't let me - pumped with adrenaline and endorphins


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    #23
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    Passed the third time. Failed first time when I blatantly wasn't ready, failed the second time for someone that was at the very worst a grade 2 fault but the guy was a notorious cnut so chose to fail me. The same guy tested and passed me the third time, much to his very obvious disappointment that he didn't even try to hide. Didn't even tell me I'd passed or say congratulations, just slid the certificate of competency across the table and told me to sign it. Nice fella :pac:

    Was that in Nenagh?


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    #24
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,239 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    First time pass. Had my mind on other things, so I was in the frame of mind where I was just taking the tester for a spin, and doing what he told me.

    No big deal. ‘Turn left here. Go up there. etc.’


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    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Passed first time.


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    #26
    grazer
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭grazer


    First time. Aged 23.

    Pranged my car two weeks later, pulling into a parking space too fast, still on a high from being a “real” driver. Not a bump in the 25 years since. Well, not my bump; car written off while parked outside my house!


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    #27
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,618 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Twice...failed first time, passed second time. Nearly 20 years ago now.

    I actually think everyone should have to re-sit their driving test every decade. There are so many bad drivers on the roads you wonder how they could possibly have passed.


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    #28
    yerwanthere123
    Registered Users, Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,333 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    sligojoek wrote: »
    Was that in Nenagh?

    No, Killarney.


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    #29
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    In Ireland, I got it on my 3rd try. My first fail was harsh. Second was fair.

    In the US, passed the first time.


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    #30
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    No, Killarney.

    There was a legendry tester in Nenagh years ago. Same guy who passed me on the bike.

    If there was a crack in your indicator lens you'd be sent home.


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    #31
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Twice and once - different categories


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