Ouch!

[dieselalles]

Great advice here.

One word of caution. If you decide to teach her the basics of driving, learn from my error. If they look like they are going to hit something that's obvious, react immediately and don't just "assume" that they see the obstacle and will stop in time. Today my oldest son and I laugh about that fire hydrant. But we weren't laughing then!

Bird, when I learned to drive, you took a test and the state trooper got into the car with you and you drove around court square. If you didn't run over anyone, you got your license. And for a motorcycle license, you got on your bike and rode behind the car in front of you that had the new driver and the trooper. If you didn't run over them or anyone else, you got your license. That was in Tennessee.

 

[Bird]

for a motorcycle license, you got on your bike and rode behind the car in front of you

Of course when I started riding motorcycles, a regular drivers license was all you needed. So when Texas started the separate test for the motorcycle endorsement, there was supposed to be a written test, then an "off road" driving test, and an "on road" driving test. And you had to provide a car and driver to transport the examiner (trooper) during the on road test.

BUT . . . , it was also left up the the DPS to decide on some of their own rules. So when I went to take the test, the written test didn't take but a few minutes, then I had my wife and her car there, but the trooper said they weren't bothering with the off road portion of the tests; just the on road and he said he would just follow me in his own car. Their office was in a strip mall, so he told me to just go out of the parking lot on the back side (which was into a residential area), make 3 right turns and 3 left turns and come back. That was all there was to it.

 

[mjarrels]

When I got my motorcycle license in the Philippines, I was setting at the next door Sari-Sari store drinking a cold 7-UP while one of the locals took the written test for me (Tagolog language). Cost me $20.00... Back then, I couldn't read or write Tagolog. Probably could have just "bought" the license directly from the local DMV. Bribs work wonders and unfortunatly, our country in going down this slippy slope.

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