Its takes two to tango
Finally had a chance to take an off day today to attempt my driving test for the third time.. yes.. for the third time.. which is considered quite pathetic for a guy.. ahh..
I also found out today that when people are facing a similar crisis e.g. driving test, total strangers would even talk to each other to loosen some nerves.. smile at each other and comment abit about how nervous they are.. typical humans eh? Humans would only come together in times of crisis and ignore each other in just about any other time. I guess i'm the cooler of the whole lot, maybe for the fact that this is my third time *ahem*.. or i keep telling myself that why should i fear a man when i should instead fear god? That helps a lot but thats the truth :)
Drove around feeling proud of myself.. made no mistakes in the circuit and got zero demerit points. Felt a bit pissed off though by the tester ramblings about how i was not following his instructions to go faster. At one point of time, i thought he contradicted himself.. he said
'I want you to go faster because there's heavy traffic in the circuit'. Duh?!? Shoulden't it be the other way around? Didn't the rules say that one must drive slower when there's heavy traffic? He really needs to get his brain in that balding head of his examined one of these days. I drove pretty well on the road outside and i admit i made a couple of judgement errors that could be easily overlooked and resolved, but i'm sure it would not even be a major criteria for a failure. I drove back to the centre feeling happy and proud that i have passed but however the slow driving thingie clung on like a leech and he marked out ALL the boxes on the paper for slow driving!! That does it. In my previous two attempts, i've never got marked for slow driving before except a couple boxes for insufficient acceleration which amounts only to four points only. But ALL the boxes for ALL the slow driving stuff?? I think thats a bit too much already. That adds up close to twenty points already.. gulp.
I also felt pissed off because he also marked all the boxes for not checking blind spots..what the !?! .. really.. it sure feels sucky to be accused of something when you did not make that mistake in the first place. But ALL the boxes?!? thats getting outboard and easily adds up close to thirty points.
If i were a sucky driver who deserved to fail, i would be a gentleman and graciously admit that it was my fault and that i deserved to fail. But i felt i have done no major mistakes and everything went pretty smoothly. A good-natured tester would have easily passed me this time. Even my instructor said i was not able to drive fast enough for that particular tester standards and i could have easily passed with other testers. Well.. if you want to be a chiongster, it doesn't mean i have to be one right? Thats why there's still so many road accidents in singapore and he should have his traffic police vocation revoked.
Nevermind, no excuses for my failure and i shall take it in my stride like a man. One more attempt to go. Just felt sad that i busted all my current month's army allowance on this. It just need to take a jackass tester to louse everything up.
Hope i never kena him as a tester again.
