I've just booked my first driving lesson for next week, Ask me anything??

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yuki2054

graded martial artist
Nov 8, 2016
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Do you have traffic laws pretty good?
Do you feel comfortable with any vehicles you've trained with so far?
The only vehicle i have ever driven was a two tonne tractor, which i managed to knock over a couple of oil barrels with. As long as i don't hit anything else, i should be okay!??
 

sparkuri

Pulse on the finger of The Cimmunity
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The only vehicle i have ever driven was a two tonne tractor, which i managed to knock over a couple of oil barrels with. As long as i don't hit anything else, i should be okay!??

So I keep asking, have you familiarized yourself with the local traffic laws?
I ask because here in the states, we have to take written tests before our driving test.
 

nuraknu

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Jul 20, 2016
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Severe acute and chronic paranoid schizophrenia, i've not had a relapse in 5 years though, and my consultant psychiatrist even wrote a report saying that i am fit to learn how to drive, so it should be okay, if i am careful/slow!
Don't forget to play LOTS of Mario Kart:
Playing Action Video Games Boosts Visual Motor Skill Underlying Driving

You must have put in a lot of work to get to this point. Maybe after you get your license you can take up motivational speaking.

Also you are very brave


Good luck and let us know how it goes.

I didn't know people could recover from schizophrenia that way. It gives me a lot of hope for people in my family + others.
 

Teen Gohan

TMMAC Top Team
Oct 19, 2015
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So let's get straight to the point. Do you hear voices?

If so, is it a sexy voice like those late night phone call commercials, or is it an annoying GPS voice?
 

sparkuri

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not an option
You're right.
I don't see a way out until I've taught him myself, stood by every step of the way, stepped in cow shit, changed a tractor wheel AND Yugo wheel, explained how an engine works, gone over the manual, passed all the tests(possibly testes), printed out the certificate myself, and thrown him a party, complete with talking sheep.

I'm in this thing 'till the bitter, cold, tragic end...
 

yuki2054

graded martial artist
Nov 8, 2016
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You're right.
I don't see a way out until I've taught him myself, stood by every step of the way, stepped in cow shit, changed a tractor wheel AND Yugo wheel, explained how an engine works, gone over the manual, passed all the tests(possibly testes), printed out the certificate myself, and thrown him a party, complete with talking sheep.

I'm in this thing 'till the bitter, cold, tragic end...
i'm not a joke, to be had at you guys expense. nice try though?
 

yuki2054

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Nov 8, 2016
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So let's get straight to the point. Do you hear voices?

If so, is it a sexy voice like those late night phone call commercials, or is it an annoying GPS voice?
no thanks. i get the same internal narrative we all get. my illness, which i don't agree with at all by the way, is more a holistic diagnosis, given by my history of long term mental incarceration. say what you will, it's hard enough getting married and being a father, without this illness, let alone with it. oh yeah, and the instructors keep on pulling out. i will need to rearrange ffs
 

yuki2054

graded martial artist
Nov 8, 2016
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You're right.
I don't see a way out until I've taught him myself, stood by every step of the way, stepped in cow shit, changed a tractor wheel AND Yugo wheel, explained how an engine works, gone over the manual, passed all the tests(possibly testes), printed out the certificate myself, and thrown him a party, complete with talking sheep.

I'm in this thing 'till the bitter, cold, tragic end...
also you worry about your own mess huh, and let me worry about mien.
 

yuki2054

graded martial artist
Nov 8, 2016
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So I keep asking, have you familiarized yourself with the local traffic laws?
I ask because here in the states, we have to take written tests before our driving test.
i've done some reading, i probably need to do more. here in the uk you need to pass the theory b4 you can take the practical, but you can start learning. i will take it steady.
 

yuki2054

graded martial artist
Nov 8, 2016
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Don't forget to play LOTS of Mario Kart:
Playing Action Video Games Boosts Visual Motor Skill Underlying Driving

You must have put in a lot of work to get to this point. Maybe after you get your license you can take up motivational speaking.

Also you are very brave


Good luck and let us know how it goes.

I didn't know people could recover from schizophrenia that way. It gives me a lot of hope for people in my family + others.
Thanks, i can't tell if you are being ironic or serious? but sure, i deserve a medal, damn
 

sparkuri

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Okaaayyyyyyy

Hi IDOHARM, good to see you back.
 

Hauler

Been fallin so long it's like gravitys gone
Feb 3, 2016
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Dude. You'll be fine. I got my license when I was 16 - on the first try. And I was a fucking idiot.
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And I made it a whole 4 months before I blew through a stop sign and T-Boned some dicksmacker in a Ford Escort.
 

Disciplined Galt

Disciplina et Frugalis
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Dude. You'll be fine. I got my license when I was 16 - on the first try. And I was a fucking idiot.
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And I made it a whole 4 months before I blew through a stop sign and T-Boned some dicksmacker in a Ford Escort.
I made six months before the social engineers came at me. The fucking irony of being a proper leftist.
 

Onetrickpony

Stay gold
Nov 21, 2016
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no thanks. i get the same internal narrative we all get. my illness, which i don't agree with at all by the way, is more a holistic diagnosis, given by my history of long term mental incarceration. say what you will, it's hard enough getting married and being a father, without this illness, let alone with it. oh yeah, and the instructors keep on pulling out. i will need to rearrange ffs
That's gentlemanly of them.