Cage test on thurs, minor setback!

[lofty]

I know, a car a car, but I am doing my full bike test this year too I hope!

Anyway, I have my car test on thurs, I was quite confident...ish.. but then I got thrown off a horse yesterday and my neck is... well... painful to say the least!

I have got a driving lesson later so fingers crossed I can still do all the proper checks etc... do you think I should tell my examiner on thurs that I fell off a horse and am rather injured?!
I have also done in my right hip...it aches like buggery.. and I landed oh so gracefully and got slightly dragged through some very large bramble bushes... I look like an emo's dream with all the cuts i've got!

[Hex]

[Ste]

Don't think there'd be any point telling them you're 'rather injured'. To cancel a test & get a refund you have to tell them 3 working days beforehand. So if the examiner thinks that you're not able to do the test you wouldn't get your money back.

Might as well not tell them and just hope that it goes alright.

[WildGoose]

What ste said pretty much, just see how it goes, deep heat and nurofen are your friends. Best to get the car test passed and out of the way, then you can forget all about the nonsense procedures, the longer the test gets put off, the easier it is to forget said nonsense.

Still a large proportion of luck involved in passing a driving test until such time as they revise them properly. My driving test for car was awful, and my parallel park was not straight and about 3 foot from the curb. I still think that I passed because I laid the guilt trip on the examiner about this being my only chance, having travelled to Wolverhampton to do it in a week.

Aren't horses ace?
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So in other words, he stopped you for being flagrantly in posession of a motorcycle in direct contravention of the Hippies, Darkies and People Whose Face I Don't Like The Look of (Police Powers) Act. 1976

[lofty]

We shall see! I think I will tell him anyway, because otherwise he's going to spend the whole time thinking I cut myself severely... my arms and hands are kinda torn!

[Dom]

Wouldn't it be best to just sit in a parked car and try it? If you find you need to call a paramedic then it'd be a no go, otherwise you're set.
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Photos and that

[Ste]

Mention something briefly about how it happened just so he doesn't think you're some psychotic weirdo, although if he does think you're a psychotic weirdo you might be more likely to pass.

[lofty]

Haha thanks Ste! I am certainly not a psychotic wierdo..... I don't think!

I have got a lesson this eve, so we shall see if im completely useless behind the wheel now or not!

[Cigaro]

Hope you're OK lofty and good luck with the test

[c_dug]

I managed to dislocate my friends shoulder 2 days before his test last year, his mum told him not to mention it to the examiner incase he deemed him unfit to drive or something along those lines, prehapse worth bareing in mind.

Good luck anyway, my friend said once he started driving he was concentrating so hard on the driving he forgot all about the pain in his shoulder so hopefully its similar for you.

good luck

c_dug
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[UnknownStuntm...]

Well good luck with whatever you decide, my thinking is that if you're well enough to drive, you're well enough to take a test to drive.

If however, you think you would be better off not driving because you're ill - DON'T go for the test, the examiner won't give you any special treatment at all. You're driving a car which is in actual fact a 'barely guided missile'....

[lofty]

Well I just had a lesson and after my neck kind of 'warmed up' I was fine, aches if I twist it too quickly but is not noticeble my driving instructor said, so I just won't tell the examiner and hope for the best! Thankyou for all the good lucks!

[Pie-Roe]

My front tyre blew out whilst I was going round a roundabout on the way to my second test. I still did it. I failed, but only because my ankle wouldn't let me use the rear brake. The examiner merely laughed at my determination to continue.

Pyro
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[lofty]

Passed! 7 minors... had a really grumpy examiner!

[Cigaro]

[Skudd]

[The999Kid]

Had to laugh at the stupidity of my examiner! by the name of Scott Banks, works at the grantham test.

At the test centre he said something along the lines of