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Trombone  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 30, 2016

Gratz on the tooth getting taken care of, nothing hurts quite like dental issues.

2x gratz on learning to drive, it's really exciting at first! What kind of tests are you looking at?





Devac  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm bypassing the theory in driving school here. Maybe I'm too cocky but I don't need two months of classes to learn the contents of ~200 pages worth of booklet. Plus theory in driving school costs almost the same as actual driving practice. :/

Maybe it's different in Poland, but when I took drivers' ed the lecture classes were at 8 in the morning over the summer, so the poor instructor was lecturing to a room full of sleeping teenagers most of the time and to this day I'm not sure what the point was. He never bothered to wake us up until the classes were over. I don't think any of us failed the tests.

Devac  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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Trombone  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, okay. That's similar to what I had.

So long as you're alert you'll be ok. Always be trying to predict what the other drivers are doing, check your mirrors, and if you're in a situation that's going pear-shaped it's almost always better to hit the brake than the gas. Keep us updated!

Devac  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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Trombone  ·  2697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like you found, it's pretty much the same sentiment as "when the shit hits the fan". This would be a situation going badly wrong/pear-shaped, and you have to decide what to do with it in that split-second of time.