Good thoughts please!! :)

You will do just fine! The best advice I ever got about driving, is, "assume everyone else on the road is deaf, blind, and stupid!" It has worked out pretty well for me. In 24 years of driving I have had no serious accidents an only 1 ticket. Good luck! We are all pulling for you!!!

Best of luck, BodLover!

I am so impressed with anyone who gets a drivers license in the UK. My husband is from England, and we went to visit his father there last year. His father very kindly offered us a car.

It was a manual. My dear boy had only ever driven automatics before, but he did really well. What really freaked me out though, was those massive roundabouts that are right next to another massive roundabout, so it's a multi-laned figure of 8 driving hell experience. (guess who was driving when we came upon one of those!).

(An aside - I love England. My first morning there, 27 December 2001, I woke up and it had snowed and it was just like a Christmas card. My husband's father lives in this 14th Century converted monastry with a moat and a thatched roof, so my every stereotypical fantasy of England was fulfilled on that day. This is kind-of in response to what BuNN said in another thread about England not getting snow, only slush.)

Naomi

Thanks all!! I'm at work for the morning today, and then (insert Indiana Jones music) I leave for the test!! Eeeks!! Just doing some last minute cramming... :laughing:

Naomi, wow!! I'd love to see your father in laws place!!! Name?? Address?? :laughing: As for those round abouts, yes, alas, we have a few in Leicester!! I shall, however, be avoiding them when I have passed my test!!! :laughing2 (of course though they take you round the worst ones on your actual test.... just to be fair an all )

I Swindon - about 40 minutes up the motorway from me, there is a 'thing' called the Magic Roundabout.

Basically, it is a HUGE roundabout made up of little mini roundabouts - probably about 12 in total.

So as you're traversing around this huge circle you have cars coming at you from all sides approaching these series of mini roundabouts - AARRGHHHHH.

For a seasoned dirver used to London traffic this even freaked me out!!! As an aside - guys in the UK, have you been watching Britain's Worst Driver? As part of the final test, they got taken out on Park Lane and had to drive around Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner in this course they had been set.

I have never seen such a shambles - these people had NO sense of direction, NO road sense, and NO manners. I have to say, I was LMAO a I was watching this, because it's actually NOT anywhere near the most difficult part of London to drive in (Trafalgar Square is worse . . .)!

Yola, good job I'm not planning any trips to Swindon!!! That would freak me out bigtime!! :laughing:

I haven't watched that show lately, but I have seen some of it.. and OMG, even I can drive better than some of them and I'm a LEARNER!!! :laughing2 I also like to watch "So you think you're a good driver" it just cracks me up... its nearly always couples on it, and one thinks they're a fab driver and the other one is crapping it in the passanger seat!! :LOL: :LOL:

Good luck with your Theory Rhea. I'm going to show my age now and say that when I took my test at 18, it was just a driving test and a few questions afterwards! I passed first time, but that could have had something to do with the fact that it was held in a market town on their half day closing, so there was no-one about!

Diana

Diana!! No fair!!! Hmm maybe I could arrange for my test on Christmas day!?!? Itd be pretty quiet then!! But then again, I guess they wouldn't let me... :laughing: Ah well.... As long as my actual DRIVING bit is in the day time, (ie not at rush hours) I should be ok.. hopefully...
thanks!!

You not gone for that test yet? Stop spamming the forums and get ya butt out there and pass that test! We are all rooting for ya, we have faith in j00

Go Boddy, Go Boddy, Go Boddy!

:laughing: Thanks BuNN, but I'm not leaving work till 2:30.. soo about 2 hours to go!!

and HEY!!!! ME!?!? SPAM!?!?!?!? I think not!! :laughing2

Ooooo 2 hours to work yourself into a worry frenzy

HEY!!! Stop that!! I'm calm... caaaaalm.. breathing.....

Those butterflies started in your stomach yet?

They did when I was learning to drive. An hour before the instructor arrived I'd have to run to the toilet. While waiting I'd be waggling my leg nervously.

I say get a scooter

Yes thanks!!! :laughing: and I'm the same before the instructor comes.. a loo trip at least three times

Good thing to be nervous, means you concentrate more The loo roll goes down faster though.

You're right, on both accounts!! :laughing2

Go Bod Go!

Just imagine me in the back seat chanting that during your test and you'll either do great or crash the car.

Good luck on the theory test!

Is it time yet? Is it time yet? ... "Are we there yet, are we there yet?" LOL! GOOD LUCK!!!!

I just saw this thread now...

Sending positive "theory driving" vibes...

WELL???????? How did it go????? I have been wondering!!!! Tell us, tell us!!!!!!!! I'll bet you did GREAT!!!!! Don't keep us in suspense any longer, girl!!!!