For Pete’s Sake…
Tuesday 21st August
Unlike my previous made-up question, this is a real one from the driving theory test:
Before starting a journey it is wise to plan your route. How can you do this?
Mark one answer
a: Look at a map.
b: Contact your local garage.
c: Look in your vehicle handbook.
d: Check your vehicle registration document.
Yes… I know that technically, you can ask for directions at the local garage, but vehicle handbook? registration document?
You forgot ‘use a satnav and follow it into/onto railway tracks, a river, or a road unsuitable for vehicles’.
That’s not really a real question, is it?
chrisb
21 Aug 07 at 10:30 pm
People plan routes?
Rich
22 Aug 07 at 5:09 am
Chris, that really is a real question.
Yes they do, Rich. Some people.
stu
22 Aug 07 at 7:56 am
Simon doesn’t.
JG
22 Aug 07 at 8:42 am
Explains why there’s so many numpties on the road!
John
22 Aug 07 at 9:42 am
“Look at a map”. Not specific enough.
Lois
22 Aug 07 at 10:51 am
cor, these tests aren’t that hard.
boo
22 Aug 07 at 11:02 am
what would i do for a goat? chill the beers and fire up the barbie i suppose.
boo
22 Aug 07 at 11:03 am
No the test isn’t hard.
It took me 8 minutes, I believe. 3 minutes to do the test. 3 minutes to check it twice and 2 minutes to finish the sweet I was eating at the time. (oh and I passed).
My ex took the written test as part of her bike one. She is very slow at reading and was kacking herself before hand that she wouldn’t have enough time to read the whole thing, let along answer the questions.
I left her at the test centre and said I’d meet her 40mins when the test was finished, whilst I wandered around Shrewsbury.
20 minutes later I bumped into her. She said she’d been looking for me for 5 minutes, she had finished the test. She passed also.
Sat Nav issues. In local news….
http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/07/sat-navs-in-ferry-fiascos/
te he he
rollasoc
22 Aug 07 at 11:39 am
I would go for e: Ask Tom Tom (suitable for everyone with a sense for adventure ;-))
Dakota
22 Aug 07 at 2:27 pm
Sat Navs will always be rubbish until they include points of interest for such things as…
GOATS!
http://www.omally.co.uk/images/goat.jpg
Omally
22 Aug 07 at 8:18 pm
Are they not sheep?
The problem being that I now can’t say what (visually) the difference between a sheep and a goat is.
But they definitely look very sheepish.
stu
22 Aug 07 at 8:59 pm
I would have to see their rears. Goats hold their tails up (most of the time) while sheep tails hang down (or they are cropped).
They look sheepish to me too, Stu!
Debster
22 Aug 07 at 9:28 pm
Surely goats don’t have curly horns? Those look like shorn sheep.
JG
22 Aug 07 at 9:53 pm
They can’t both be called Shaun. That’d be confusing.
stu
22 Aug 07 at 10:06 pm
All sheep should be called Shaun to be as unconfusing as possible. When you next met a sheep you’d have none of the current problem of trying to remember it’s name.
rich
23 Aug 07 at 6:55 am
Ah, well if it’s tails pointing up then they’re not goats. Lookit!
http://www.omally.co.uk/images/sheepsarse.jpg
Baaaaaaaaah!
Anyway, they ALL look evil and I daresay would all be yummy with a drop of mint sauce.
Omally
24 Aug 07 at 12:43 am
SHEEP! SHEEP! SHEEP!
Debster
26 Aug 07 at 12:38 am
I daresay it’d take more than a DROP of mint sauce to make that creature “yummy.” Oh…you WERE planning to cook it first? Okay, then. Do share. Skip the mint sauce.
Who takes pictures of a sheep’s butt?
On second thought…
I don’t want to know.
Holly
28 Aug 07 at 4:01 am
Oh, by the way, they really need to update that test. If I want to know where to go, I check it out with Google maps, then zoom in with the satellite, find my landmarks (you don’t honestly think I can follow a map, do you?), and draw myself pretty little pictograms representing directions incomprehensible to anyone but me. Isn’t that how everyone does it?
Holly
28 Aug 07 at 4:03 am