Oh hell. Sent text to wrong person.

[CadburyMellos]

On my phone, when you send a text and then go back to the home page/do something else then go back into texts, it stays on the message conversation of the last person you messaged. I don't text many people and 99% of the time it's on my husbands message convo.

I've got my driving test tomorrow morning and my instructor has just text me to say he isn't very well and likely to have to postpone my test which could be another 8 weeks away now. Not instructors fault but I'm angry/upset as I'm going to have to pay again, too late to cancel now.

Anyway, I've text my husband (at work) and told him. I called instructor a few names as not been happy with him for few weeks but didn't want change instructor with being so close to test. Except I sent the text to my instructor and not my husband. Bollocks.

No gift! I think you were justifiably angry at him for letting you down and his response to your angry message was pretty crap.

Did he reply either to your apology message or the news you'd passed? He'd be pretty mean to hold a grudge given he IS flaky, and you did apologise (and you're 32 weeks pregnant...with twins!)

Well done for passing!!

Couple of strange posts there.

Congratulations OP!

Move on. What's done is done

I think that you may have actually done him a favour. He was clearly happy to let you down time after time and that will cost him his business if he doesnt pack it in pronto. Especially fucking about with someones test FFS!

Its about time someone told him straight that it is not on and hopefully he will be more committed in future, and if he isnt then he deserves to lose his business.

Get one day insurance and get your hubby to take you. I did my test in my own car and didn't have to pay for instructor

Time to change your instructor! Might be, will be awkward next time you see him.

You've apologised so try to put it to the back of your mind. You'll laugh about this one day.

Congratulations on everything. Well done. It'll be a weight off your shoulders you passed before giving birth & will come in handy if you ever buy a car after having the twins. Well done again. No don't buy him anything. He doesn't deserve it.

Just dropped in to say 'well done'!!!

Congrats! If you must send him something a diary might be useful.

Congratulations Cadbury!

I passed my test a few years ago. My instructor really was called Dave. He was a bit like my dad, but without all the irritating cringey Dad stuff. Really quite lovely.

Brilliant! Alls well that ends well. And you've apologised once and thanked him, that's enough really. He let you down enough, you don't need to see each other again, so leave it at thank you. He should say well done!

Hurray! So so chuffed for you-one if the best days of my life still was passing my driving test.

Don't send dickhead Dave anything. Let down 5 times & he didn't even try to get another instructor to help you out himself?! Awful. Wishing you many years happy driving OP!!

Good luck with your test today, really hope you pass so no need for more lessons! Fingers crossed for you. X

I just wanted to add that my driving instructor was called Dave too! (congrats by the way!)

Brilliant work, OP, you did really well.
I would have been very anxious to take my test in an unfamiliar car, especially for the manoeuvres, hill start, unfamiliar length, clutch etc.

Congratulations!

You have apologised for the anger and name calling, you don't owe him anything else. You paid for lessons, that's a simple transaction.

He needs to know that other people's time is valuable. You booked paid childcare: how would he like it if people booked his time and then didn't show up? He needs to learn from this and develop a more professional approach.

Now, THAT is funny.
Sorry, sick Dave.

congratulations on passing the test. Dont send dave anything. He's probably not even ill

Congratulations! And in a strange car too

I am always a bit careful with going off the deep end - I once took a call from a very irate client of my colleague's, complaining she hadn't received a call back that morning as promised from my colleague. There was quite a tirade. Of course client didn't know and I couldn't say, the previous day my colleague's young DC had been killed in an accident, hence the very sudden and unexpected absence and we hadn't had time to sort things out. It was a terrible time and really put things into perspective.

I know it's not really relevant here as Dave is just an arse if he has been previously unreliable, but generally we don't know what is going on in other people's' lives, we only see the outside.

Oh dear, sorry, I hope I haven't put a downer on your thread now, which should be a happy congratulations thread!

Forgot to say earlier that the best gift for someone who actually deserves it would be a really good review and recommendation for the instructor who helped you out. Choosing an instructor can be difficult so personal recommendations mean a lot.

Just own it. It was the truth... and yes you'd have worded it differently if you were to complain to Dave* but at least he knows how you feel and hopefully he will stop being an unreliable fucking bastard lol. Oh and no way would i pay for him cancelling last minute. Good luck with your test. X

Why do people not RTFT????

Thank you so much everyone. I wasn't expecting so many replies. I won't send Dave anything