arnoldsoccer4
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So I took my driving test today and I should have my license right now, but guess what, I don't. I parked outside, somewhat away from other cars because my dad's car still looks brand new even though it is 6 years old, and we go into the DMV. So while sitting I overhear a conversation next to me talking about the people that grade you on your driving. I overhear there are only 2 testers at this DMV, and the black man is a dick. I disregarded this as perhaps a racist comment and sure enough, the guy they are talking about calls me to test me. Remember the car is parked a little away from the DMV? It is still in the parking lot, just 4 or 5 rows out. We start walking and I say "Sorry, the car is parked a little far out to prevent damage" to that I get this reply from my tester, "Pick up the pace kid I have s*** to do and you're wasting my time." Ok, the people inside were right I thought to myself, I am not making this up by the way he truly said that to me. He takes me through the normal stuff, turn your signals/ brake lights on and when I turn my left turn signal on the guy asks me 5 times if it is on, to which I say "Yes sir it is" (southern grown manners). So we start the test at roughly 3, right when school has let out. The thing is there is an elementary school right by the DMV and the test goes through a neighborhood where many of these 5/6/7/8 year old kids live. The neighborhood is the only one in our area that has a speed limit of 35. So I see these kids walking home, running in the street, not looking etc, and I don't want to take a casualty on my driving test so I decrease speed to roughly 20 on account of the kids not paying attention. Everyone else driving is doing the same thing.
So we get back and I park perfectly in the practice spot and the guy informs me I have failed my driving test and starts to get out of the car, when he is getting out I ask why? I truly had a perfect driving test. He tells me that I failed because I went 15 under the speed limit in that residential area. I say "Well there are kids around and for their safety I and everyone else on the road decreased our speeds to a reasonable level." This is when my tester gets really, well, testy (Puns FTW!). He says, "I saw the same things you did kid, do you think I am blind?" He in fact did not see the same things because he was looking at his notepad the whole time. He asks me if I have any further questions and I ask, "Well was there anything else I did wrong besides driving too slow?" And he looks at his sheet and says, "No, other than that you had a perfect test" and hands me the sheet. I also told him that I would like to speak to him further inside with my dad in company so he (my tester) can explain why I failed.
Has anyone here ever heard of a 16 year old failing a driving test for driving too slow? I told my dad all this after we finished and we went in to have a chat with the supervisor. We tell the supervisor who we have a complaint about and it was apparent by her reaction that this is another in a long line of complaints against Sherman, my tester. She calls him over and he tells her to wait 20 minutes, he is on his break. Once he comes over she asks why I failed, he says for driving 15 under, and tells her that he told me 3 times to go up to the speed limit. He NEVER told me to speed up and he asked me once what the speed limit was. I tell the supervisor this and that there were 5 year olds running rampant, which I feel bad about because it puts her in a bad position. At this point Sherman asks his supervisor, "Can I leave now?" and his supervisor says, "Please do".
My dad says to the supervisor, "Ok so by this logic, if I am in a blizzard and there is black ice everywhere I should drive 35 just because that is the posted speed limit?" The supervisor says to us, "I know that you (me) should not have failed this, especially seeing everything else was perfect, but unfortunately because I was not in the car I cannot overturn his decision, and I would take you out right now for a retake, but legally I can't." So I got another appointment scheduled, but I should have my license here and now.
The supervisor gave me a complaint card to fill out, and really pushed filling it out, I think because she has been wanting Sherman fired for a while now. Our final comment on the card was "We recommend that Sherman finds a new job in which the public cannot interfere with his break time."
So we get back and I park perfectly in the practice spot and the guy informs me I have failed my driving test and starts to get out of the car, when he is getting out I ask why? I truly had a perfect driving test. He tells me that I failed because I went 15 under the speed limit in that residential area. I say "Well there are kids around and for their safety I and everyone else on the road decreased our speeds to a reasonable level." This is when my tester gets really, well, testy (Puns FTW!). He says, "I saw the same things you did kid, do you think I am blind?" He in fact did not see the same things because he was looking at his notepad the whole time. He asks me if I have any further questions and I ask, "Well was there anything else I did wrong besides driving too slow?" And he looks at his sheet and says, "No, other than that you had a perfect test" and hands me the sheet. I also told him that I would like to speak to him further inside with my dad in company so he (my tester) can explain why I failed.
Has anyone here ever heard of a 16 year old failing a driving test for driving too slow? I told my dad all this after we finished and we went in to have a chat with the supervisor. We tell the supervisor who we have a complaint about and it was apparent by her reaction that this is another in a long line of complaints against Sherman, my tester. She calls him over and he tells her to wait 20 minutes, he is on his break. Once he comes over she asks why I failed, he says for driving 15 under, and tells her that he told me 3 times to go up to the speed limit. He NEVER told me to speed up and he asked me once what the speed limit was. I tell the supervisor this and that there were 5 year olds running rampant, which I feel bad about because it puts her in a bad position. At this point Sherman asks his supervisor, "Can I leave now?" and his supervisor says, "Please do".
My dad says to the supervisor, "Ok so by this logic, if I am in a blizzard and there is black ice everywhere I should drive 35 just because that is the posted speed limit?" The supervisor says to us, "I know that you (me) should not have failed this, especially seeing everything else was perfect, but unfortunately because I was not in the car I cannot overturn his decision, and I would take you out right now for a retake, but legally I can't." So I got another appointment scheduled, but I should have my license here and now.
The supervisor gave me a complaint card to fill out, and really pushed filling it out, I think because she has been wanting Sherman fired for a while now. Our final comment on the card was "We recommend that Sherman finds a new job in which the public cannot interfere with his break time."
