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28 Jul 2007, 9:12 am

I passed my theory test today, scoring 34/35 on the questions, and 50/75 on hazard perception

I think a celebration is in order, and time to look to the future and my practical test when it comes up :D

I'm half way to becoming a fully fledged driver :D


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28 Jul 2007, 9:16 am

f and a hommie :P



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28 Jul 2007, 9:21 am

Well done and good luck for your practical test im sure you'll pass.:)



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28 Jul 2007, 9:38 am

Congratulations.Having such a good knowledge of the theory will help everything else fall into place.Good luck


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28 Jul 2007, 9:54 am

cool man, a driver? u mean an 18 wheeler, or tractor trailer driver? I ask cause I load and unload trucks for a living and thought about driving (going to school) to learn how to drive, the money is good, but I need a routine, a 9-5 job, I dont think I could handel being away all strange hours. Id love the travel, but I wanna be their someday for my family (in the future I hope) and with that kinda job it just seems impossible.



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28 Jul 2007, 10:07 am

woodsman25 wrote:
cool man, a driver? u mean an 18 wheeler, or tractor trailer driver? I ask cause I load and unload trucks for a living and thought about driving (going to school) to learn how to drive, the money is good, but I need a routine, a 9-5 job, I dont think I could handel being away all strange hours. Id love the travel, but I wanna be their someday for my family (in the future I hope) and with that kinda job it just seems impossible.


just a car driver, but I don't mind, I could benefit from having a car, I'm half way to obtaining the licence :D


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28 Jul 2007, 10:11 am

Congratulations!


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28 Jul 2007, 10:42 am

Congrats :D I am too nervous to get my license. :oops:



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28 Jul 2007, 10:57 am

Aspies make very good drivers! We concentrate and can actually avoid a lot of the issues other people get caught up in.
I found the trick was to incorporate the space you know as your body, and stretch it into the size of the car.
Think about it! If you come to a door way, you know about how big your body is and how you need to angle and walk through the door way with out touching the sides, right? So, just expand your consciousness of your 'body' to the dimensions of the car. . . and voila! you know just how big you are and how much room you need around you to be a safe and careful driver!

good on ya'! you will love driving. . so independent and free!

Merle



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28 Jul 2007, 2:23 pm

Congrats, and sinsboldly is right. I drive a lot and I am good - not being pretentious, I really am good. I love to drive and the freedom, always have.

Once I read about a remarkable professional CDL truck driver who also is a published author. He drove for excessive hours transversing the country on long trips alone. Anyway, he wrote that on a certain stretch of roadway, during the middle of the black night with no streetlights, which he knew by heart, he would actually turn off his headlights and turn on his interior cab light and just drive! DO NOT TRY THIS. Still, intriguing experience for him I am sure.


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28 Jul 2007, 2:31 pm

Well done mate. :) I'm going to take on driving tests sooner or later... I need to lol. Well done I hear it's not at all easy congrats.


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28 Jul 2007, 2:50 pm

LabPet wrote:
Congrats, and sinsboldly is right. I drive a lot and I am good - not being pretentious, I really am good. I love to drive and the freedom, always have.

Once I read about a remarkable professional CDL truck driver who also is a published author. He drove for excessive hours transversing the country on long trips alone. Anyway, he wrote that on a certain stretch of roadway, during the middle of the black night with no streetlights, which he knew by heart, he would actually turn off his headlights and turn on his interior cab light and just drive! DO NOT TRY THIS. Still, intriguing experience for him I am sure.


HUSH. . .don't tell anyone, but when I am in Harney County here in Oregon, it is rolling lava lands (where Crater Lake is now was a huge Volcano called Mt Mazama and when it blew. . .the lava flowed all the way to Nevada) anyway. . long straight aways and not even a telephone pole along the road. I drop my convertable top and turn off the lights and drive by the light of the full moon. . .warm wind in my hair, The Doors on the quadrophonic...

and I am flying



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28 Jul 2007, 2:59 pm

Congratulations! I hope you get your license soon :)

I'm 20 and I haven't tried to get it :lol:



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28 Jul 2007, 3:07 pm

give me a couple more months then I can take the practical driving test and hopefully obtain a license

that'll show my (soon to be ex) social worker who is the irrational one, heh


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28 Jul 2007, 11:49 pm

Pikachu wrote:
that'll show my (soon to be ex) social worker who is the irrational one, heh


I don't mean to stir up anything, but social workers want to be the arbitrators of what is rational and what isn't. If we exceed their expectations, then why will anyone need social workers any more? I am sure there they wouldn't consider it anything personal, it's just their business.

however, I see every thing personal if it happens to me. :wink:
your milage may vary.

Merle



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29 Jul 2007, 9:06 pm

congrats pikachu :o


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