Most deranged thing you’ve done in a driving lesson/test?

[Shania7788]

My test is coming up soon. Been doing really well but I made the stupidest mistake today and I’m too embarrassed to tell anyone I know in real life. But I need to tell someone before I spend the whole week thinking about this before I fall asleep.

I was following a route I’ve done before but never with the satnav. Approached a mini roundabout before dual carriageway slip road and was going straight over/2nd exit. I must’ve heard ‘turn right…’ or something and been daydreaming, because I went the wrong way around the roundabout 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😩. It’s such a stupid mistake that I’m half convinced the satnav showed an anti-clockwise diagram that I followed blindly. So dangerous of me and ridiculous because I live on a road with three mini roundabouts! Argh!!!

My teacher says the rest of my driving is great and doesn’t want to move the test but it really shook me (and him I think!!) obviously I’ve never done it before.

Please tell me your stupid and deranged mistakes/decisions as a learner to make me feel better and push this out of my mind!

Not quite in the same league OP but I was so excited to pass I hugged the instructor, he looked extremely uncomfortable 😳😅

Took me five times to pass my damn test, what a fucking nightmare it all was.

On my first test I thought it'd be a good idea to drive on the PAVEMENT, you know, just to get things started.

A later test involved the examiner screaming at me 'Mind the cyclist!!'

What cyclist?

I am glad I didn't pass when I was 17. I'd have been dead

As an overly cocky 17 year old who had been driving on private land for years I assumed I would pass easily. However, on my test I took the wrong left turning which didn't seem too bad until on the way out of this car park and I was confused by the traffic light which had a left arrow and I was turning left (I can only blame nerves I think) so I asked him if that meant I could go. He obviously couldn't say but when a car came behind me, he said I had to drive on. For some reason, I continued to do the test optimistically. He must have thought I was a right prick. In my defense, I think i would have passed if not for that. it took me three more attempts.

a few weeks later, i was driving with my mum and parking up and drove straight into the building as i pressed the accelerator instead of the brake. my car was forever a bit flat at the front.

i was actually a complete liability for years. youthful blindness.

Glad to hear this. I failed one test because I reversed around a corner and a HGV was coming so I stopped. Apparently that was incorrect but so was driving on. Never n understood what I was meant to do.

Test 1 - couldn't even start the car. For over 2 minutes and had started to talk to myself out loud. The test man (invigilator?) told me there was nothing wrong with the car then when I flustered more he prompted me to check my gears - I was in 3rd...
That same test a massive peasant ran in front of the car. We didn't crash but I got the fright of my life. Failed that test for jumping from 5th to 1st (by mistake) trying to change into 3rd and we kangaroo hopped on the road for what felt like ages

Next text I failed within 5 minutes which I won't go into detail as I still get worked up thinking about it. It was bloody annoying and I still think I should have appealed the decision

Passed on my third 😅

A massive peasant eh? Poor bloke. Lucky you didn’t hit him.

First test I decided to stop and let some pedestrians across the road. Fine, except they were at least 100m away from the road, one of them in a wheelchair so they were going quite slowly. We waited for ages and the examiner asked me what I was doing.

Second test, we went out on a country road to do higher speed driving, then turned back and he asked if I could find my way back to town. I confidently said yes, then turned up the wrong road, which I knew was the wrong road even as I turned up it, and drove for a bit then said "I've gone the wrong way" Had to do a U turn and go back but I did pass that time.

I pulled out in the middle of a funeral procession. I was convinced I’d been flashed to go and didn’t really look at the car…clearly they just went over a pothole or similar

I still passed as it wasn’t dangerous, there was a reasonable gap etc… but the awkward silence whilst we went at 5PMH in the middle of the funeral procession will haunt me for the rest of my life.

I drove on the wrong side of the road at the junction onto a main road out of the test centre. I knew I'd failed and had to do the whole test 🤦‍♀️

My DD has just had her third lesson, hit a kerb and punctured the tyre.

I have done loads of stupid shit and some after many years of driving.

On my test I went round the roundabout (the right way 😉) in 5th gear. I failed.

Though after passing my test, I have driven round a mini one the wrong way. 😬

Me too. Wonder why they removed this in favour of adding 'pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths and rejoin the traffic' (and the usual parking ones that were there anyway).

Massive peasant 😂😂

It wasn't a lesson, or test... but I still get teased about the time I went round a corner and found a tank coming at me. (Actually an armoured personnel carrier)

I just froze for 30 seconds. Then did the correct manoeuvre of pulling up onto the pavement to let it past.

I was coming to the end of my test. I felt happy I'd drove the best I could. Drove into the test centre. Examiner said to park in one of the bays so I shot forward happy as Larry, and went up the curb and bumped into a brick wall.

The examiner just looked at me and said ' well that was stupid'. Up until then I'd had a perfect drive.

When my driving instructor came out to see how I did, all I could do was look at her wide eyed and say no!

We drove home in silence and I really didn't want any more lessons after what I'd done. I contacted her a month later and went on to pass.

I’m so glad they’ve got rid of reversing around a corner. I saw a car do it the other day and it seems quite dangerous!

A couple of weeks ago we were following some very slow cars off the dual carriageway. My instructor said it was like a funeral procession. After a bend in the road I could see were indeed following a hearse a few cars in front 🙈

Good luck OP.

I loved learning to drive. I was so excited when I turned 17.

Loved my driving instructor. Had so much fun. My Dad had been taking me out on private roads so I did know some things. But our family car had a choke. The learning car didn't.

I did many stupid things whilst learning.

If you were in Colchester in Essex we have 5 mini roundabouts round a big round about. And those you can go round the wrong way. I still avoid that round about.

I passed 3rd time. 1st and 3rd time with the same examiner!

When I failed I had to drive back home. When I passed the instructor drove back. I couldn't understand why. He was like because you are too excited. And he was correct.

Hope you pass!

I hit a fence on my third test and went around a roundabout the wrong way on my 5th. I passed on my 6th. Good luck, OP!

Instructor: 'I didn't stop you as the other car was stopping but really you should've given way at that roundabout.'

Me: What roundabout?

In my defence it was very badly painted 😂

Also pulled away in 3rd gear on my second test. Examiner failed me but she said she was quite impressed with my clutch control that I pulled it off.

Instructor told me at the end of a mock test that I went through a red light at a pedestrian crossing. To this day I still have absolutely no recollection of it being red. I was a late learner and very anxious at that, as well as being a bit highly strung and unused to being told I’ve done something wrong. It sent me into a totally spiral. Sat sobbing in her car for ages until I could compose myself enough to drive home and then sobbed some more when I got home. Poor woman must have thought I’d lost the plot.

Although I passed years ago now I still second guess myself while driving which is exhausting. Total over reaction I know - I passed first time with one minor so presumably am not an awful driver but if I ever win the lottery I would hire a driver or get taxis everywhere and never drive again!

If you were in Colchester in Essex we have 5 mini roundabouts round a big round about. And those you can go round the wrong way. I still avoid that round about.

Nothing can beat the Magic roundabout in Swindon!

It's fun going round that one I can tell you!

My friend drove over a park and nearly into a lake. Said he panicked led. It was outside school and we were all walking home. So we all saw it

FinallyHere · Yesterday 20:28

Convinced that I had definitely failed, I relaxed and enjoyed what I thought would just be driving practice. Couldn't believe my ears when he said I had passed and had to ask him to repeat himself.

Something similar to me, I left the test centre as tense as Hell, I probably left finger marks in the steering wheel! The first manoeuvre was a reverse into a side road, a narrow right angled one; my wheel went over the white line. I then relaxed.

After I had my pass paper, I asked the examiner and he said he hadn't noticed!

XenoBitch · Yesterday 21:25

I failed my motorcycle test in spectacular fashion, and it still makes me cringe to this day.

I failed my first one, I was really ill, but couldn't re-arrange at short notice. I was awful, about 20 minors and the icing on the cake was sitting through a change of lights at a junction, instead of pulling a third of the way on. I knew I needed to, but I just wanted to get off and lie down.

It was some of the heaviest rain I've ever been in, too!

Don’t do what my Mum did before one of her 8 tests: had a large brandy ‘to calm her nerves’

I failed my first test for not overtaking a small group of cyclists. The limit had changed from 30 to 60 (country road) and I hadn't noticed, so didn't overtake because I'd have had to accelerate above 30mph to do so. Crawled behind them at 23mph for a mile or so.

I failed for driving dangerously slowly. I don't know whether it would have been better to fail for speeding than for that!