I just learned my Driving Instructor is Unavailable.

"Denver Is Stuck In The 90s" (denver80222)
10/04/2014 at 05:49 • Filed to: None

Gets semi personal after the jump

He broke his arm, and requires surgery. My mom has been procrastinating on working with me to schedule a time where she could take me to have my final lesson. I finally fight with her about it and she goes to schedule it and hears this. Now I have to wait even longer. Sometimes I wonder if my mom ever wanted to me to have my license. She's looking for condos for me to rent from her and she wants me to do it but even before I have my license. How does that make sense? kick me out and give me no means of going anywhere. She put it off over and over and over again. Not allowing me when I was 16 when I was 18 find then finally allowing me to get my permit when I was 20. She keeps pushing it back. I can't just go get it myself because I have a lot of medical issues that are expensive. I need the insurance benefits. I wanted to have this lesson done before I was 21 but she kept on procrastinating. I don't know I just think I need a place to vent I'm done not having my license I'm done relying on people to get me places I just want to get in a car and drive somewhere.

/Rant

DISCUSSION (15)

The man in the iron mask > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 05:57

Damn dude, i feel. I dont know what i would have done at year 18. Hang on there, if you have waited this long enough, you are able to wait a few more weeks .

Xyl0c41n3 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 06:04

Do you have to take this last class to get your license? I don't know what the rules are in Colorado, but here in Texas you don't have to take any sort of official class before attempting the driving exam. You can just go straight to the DMV and sign up for it. If you've only got one class left anyway, what is it you have left to learn? You're probably already pretty close to knowing what you need for the test already. If it's just a couple more practical skills like parallel parking or something, maybe one of your friends would be willing to let you practice with their car in an empty parking lot or something? And you can brush up on all the academic stuff for the written part of the test without an instructor at all. Your local DMV should have a booklet that tells you what all the laws and rules are specific to Colorado. That thing is a perfect study guide. The only hard part will be working with your mom to schedule the exam itself because you need to show proof of insurance, and you obviously can't drive yourself there alone. But, hopefully all the other stuff besides that you can work around.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Xyl0c41n3
10/04/2014 at 06:11

I don't have to take driver's ed to get my license. But it's skewed to make it so beneficial to take driver's ed is that it's a mistake not to. If I get my license without driver's ed my insurance rate would be something like 200 bucks a month. With driver's ed it brings it down to like 90. And then after I turn 25, it drops down to like 40. I also want to be a good driver I just don't want to drive.

Xyl0c41n3 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 06:21

Ahh, yeah, I can understand that. But, maybe you can still get in some extra practice time with your friends in the meantime, at least so you can keep refining your skills while you wait.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Xyl0c41n3
10/04/2014 at 06:26

I'm not worried about my skills. I know I'm 10 times better than anybody else with my level of experience. I'm just pissed that I can't fill this stupid requirement

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 06:42

I had to change driving instructor when I started learning. The guy was useless and it later turned out he was a pretty bad sexist (berated one of my gfs friends to the point of tears, she also switched instructors). Learning to drive can be a complete pain.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/04/2014 at 06:51

I switched from one instructor to another already. This would actually be my fourth lesson the first lesson was a complete wash. My first lesson was my only lesson with my first instructor. She taught me how to park and once we got on the road, she completely gave up. There was a point where I was asking her what to do because she wasn't telling me. My current instructor is very good he's very responsive and he's very direct with his teaching. To Tell you truth I don't want to learn from anybody else. I only require three lessons but I feel that the first lesson was so bad that I might as well have not had it. I really do want to be a good driver, so I opted for a fourth lesson.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 07:00

I can understand not wanting to switch, my second instructor was great and I wouldn't have wanted to have to pick another. Only four lessons? Over here the average is 10-15 2 hour lessons and most people fail their first test (the testing is bit of a money maker for the government so they have to fail a certain amount of people a month.) I wish I could've only done 4.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/04/2014 at 07:04

Man, I can't imagine having to do 10 lessons. There was one silver lining to my horrible first lesson though, I saw a gorgeous Daytona Blue 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe with the shiniest Side Exhaust on that drive. I wish my instructor was a car person so she couldve appreciated it as much as I did.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 07:15

I believe I ended up doing about 15 lessons at 2 hours each. The total cost of getting my licence passed Ł800, possibly got close to Ł1'000. I could've done a fair few less if my first instructor wasn't useless though.

That's pretty cool, nothing as interesting as that in my town unfortunately. A sea of small hatchbacks and vans on my lessons.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Xyl0c41n3
10/04/2014 at 08:42

It's great here in Texas, you can do parent taught and all I did was fill in the chart for my lesson every day even though my dad only had me behind the wheel a few times. A month or so later, I went to get my permit and then a year (or was it six months??) later I had my license. I didn't even have to parallel park!

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 09:26

Now my goal of getting mine FEB 13 seems trivial to your situation, having to wait until 20/21 just sucks.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/04/2014 at 18:36

I hear ya well not in as dramatic of a way buy my parents won't let me get a motorcycle license till 18.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
10/05/2014 at 00:14

My Parents wont let me get A Motorcycle License EVER. Youre lucky they let you get one at all

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
10/05/2014 at 09:38

Yeah. I guess you have point there.