People who are utterly incompetent at their job but think that you are the problem for pointing out their shortcomings.
A young lady we know who passed her test recently had a Motorway Driving lesson with her instructor after passing her test. I believe it was FOC because she'd had more than a certain number of lessons with the instructor before her test. But, it had to be done in her own car, as I believe there is some strange insurance 'thing' which doesn't cover drivers who've passed their test to still drive their instructors cars.
The old fashioned windy key tins were cleaner and safer. And if the ring pull snaps off when you pop it and you have to resort to some piercing implement it's 50/50 whether the result will be a written off kitchen or bodily dismemberment.
A broken off ring pull is a sardine/pilchard disaster, often requiring the curation of all available man skills, and an urgent trip to the shed.
You must love it when the builders and work crews pull in to get diesel at 08.00am and 10 hampers of pies, bacon rolls coffee and tea for breakfast!
Not only do I do it, I am paid to do it. Regrettably, I’m unable to entirely switch the pedantry off when not working, though I do manage to dial it back a couple of notches. I’m not sure whether I’ve mentioned this before, but I once spent weeks prepping and a day and a half in the High Court arguing about the meaning of the words “send”, “give” and “serve” and whether, in some circumstances the word “may” meant “must” and if so, why the word “shall” also appeared in the same provision. It was marvellous.
Could it be that by the nature of their business, the insurance companies don’t expect them to be used on a motorway? Not saying you’re wrong, just idly speculating.
Finding a parking spot in a car park as far away as possible from everyone else and within a second someone parks right up against your car..
I don't think you are even covered to drive the instructors car home from the test centre if you pass. The insurance cover is for learners only. But that might be a myth.
How about a bunch of so called leaders all banging on about green agendas yet costing me money, then all fecking off to Davos at the height of the skiing season under the pretence it’s in my best interests.. that boils my piss!
As driving seems to feature quite strongly... People who drive whilst using their phone.. even watching films ffs.
The question: Ian, could I ask you to settle an internet debate related to your former trade; did your insurance only cover learners to drive the car? There is a suggestion that once someone has passed their test they cannot drive your car home from the test centre, nor could you give someone a lesson on a motorway after they had passed? True or urban myth? And the answer: The insurance I had covered any driver at any time as long as they were accompanied or over 25...so you could have driven my car but a newbie couldn't drive without me or the examiner in the car.. Fairly standard ADI insurance I think...and, to be fair, I always drove post test as the chances are the kids were either too euphoric or too depressed to not slam it into a wall
That lot can burn in hell, especially when the one in the front has forgotten what his mate wants or his card keeps failing. More so at 4 am when it's night till so everything has to hand picked by the cashier. You give him a list at least not ask for each individual fckn item as he tries to do a super fkn market dash and don't even think about ordering fck Coffee especially a Latte . Oh yeah and nothing that requires warming up it's 4 am FFS and if I was you I'd lay off the Pies you fat *****". And breath Bunch of Tuesdays.
You can book such a lesson, my Daughter did with her instructor. I sometimes wonder if it should be compulsory for newly qualified drivers. Leaners do experience dual carriageways the leap to a motorway isn’t that great other than slipways which some drivers struggle with.
My son passed his test on 2 January. He used his own car, which had a learner's insurance policy, which cost about £290 fully comp, including me as a named driver. When we bought it, we were informed he'd no longer be insured until he took out a full policy (at a cost of about £3000 ) so I had to drive him home. Shopped around and got him a balck-box policy for about £900.
