Driving Instructor nuggets that you never forget – what are yours? – Page 2 – Chat Forum

deadlydarcy · 2009-12-06T08:50:13Z

I didn't learn to drive till I was around 23, living in a small town in Gloucestershire. My driving instructor was pretty old school, not some BSM or AA driving school clone and had lived there all his life. From what I heard when learning from others, he'd taught most people in the town to drive. Clive used to have lots of little sayings that he'd use when we were on our lessons and I wish I'd written them all down but there are two that I still remember every time I execute certain manoeuvres. He used to think of a roundabout as a jam tart (stay with me here) and if I was going left or "straight over" he would remind me to stay on the pastry and not to stray into the jam. I was only to drive directly into the jam if I was going right and to drift back out onto the pastry after the exit before mine. Even now, if I inadvertently take the "shortest" route across the roundabout, mrs deadly might jokingly remind me that I didn't "stay on the pastry". The second was when turning right into another road, I had to imagine a brick wall built on the centre line of the road into which I was turning, finishing at the junction. The idea being, if there was a wall there, I'd never stray into the "wrong" lane as I making the turn. Even now, when I'm making a right, I'll still sometimes say to myself "right, imagine there's a brick wall...". Anyone else got any?

Nonsense

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After 4 weeks in and a 7 car overtake at about 98mph on an A road my police driving instructor simply said .... "nice progression"

Posted : 07/12/2009 9:32 pm

AnalogueAndy

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After 4 weeks in and a 7 car overtake at about 98mph on an A road my police driving instructor simply said .... "nice progression"

"Golf Lima Foxtrot" 😉

Posted : 08/12/2009 10:10 pm

Smudger666

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Army paid for me to learn to drive. The thing was you had to use an army examiner - the only examiner in Aberdeen at the time was my own Platoon Sargeant.

I'll never forget the advice he gave me the night before the test - 'get me pissed tonight and i'll be too hung over to spot your mistakes!

worked a treat!

Posted : 08/12/2009 10:35 pm

pault41

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An ex traffic policeman was my instructor,car was mini 1250 sport that had been breathed on.

Classic on was "IMAGINE THAT STEERING WHEEL IS A RIGID TURD ,IT WILL BE OOZING THRU YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW."

One afternoon traveling up the two lane section of wells road in Bath
"THATS MY MATES YELLOW FIRE ENGINE UP THERE , DROP INTO SECOND N PUT YUR FOOT DOWN N CATCH THE BUGGER"

Posted : 08/12/2009 10:45 pm

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