Your first journey after passing the driving test. Can you remember it?
Did you it take you ages because you did all left turns (too afraid to do major right turns):D

Was it traumatic - did you crash the car, or break down?

Or was your test the last time you drove? (Apparently, a number of people never make it back into the driving seat after passing):o

I remember mine, t'was a trip to Bridlington to visit me gramps..

No Crashes, Bumps or Glitches since the day I passed :)

I love driving!

Think I drove to the cinema to see Jurasic Park. Pretty uneventful evening.

Drove from Walkley to Stocksbridge and back the day after passing my test - no probs.

I remember mine! I'd passed my driving test a week earlier in a powerful, modern, PAS Toyota, and drove out of a used car lot in an 11 year old Fiat Uno.

The look on the sales guys face as I span the wheels, throwing up gravel chips on to the other cars was priceless ;)

I remember my first journey to my friend's house. I was still insured on my parent's Rover 600 then so I took it out on my own. I remember being so nervous I couldn't have the stereo on! I think it took me a couple of weeks before I could have it on in the car. How bad is that!

I passed first time though.

I went to Bardwells. Drove for a mile back up Abbeydale Road wondering why the car wasn't pulling - the handbrake was on!

I was so nervous I nearly ran over the man with the red flag :(

Originally posted by owdlad
I was so nervous I nearly ran over the man with the red flag :(

I thought you'd borrowed the Flintstonemobile!

Passed my test 1st time, driving back from the test centre in my mothers mini, with her in the passenger seat.

As we're coming down the main road half a house brick was thrown up by a concrete wagon going in the other direction, which went straight through the windscreen, and passed between us, landing on the rear seats.

The windscreen was toughened not laminated so everything went "crazy" and I couldn't see out, so to get home we had to push the windscreen out of the car, and drive with extra "air-con".

To cap it all, the windscreen replacement company didn't do home visits (ah, they don't do it like they used to), so I had to don my motorcycle helmet, and drive to the depot to get a new one fitted, with bits of loose glass still pinging inside the car.

So there I am, the day I passed my test, driving 17 miles to the windscreen depot, in a mini with no windscreen, wearing a bike helmet, and leather jacket.

Don't know why I remember it, but I do. :hihi:

Do I remember! I'd passed my test 2 months earlier in Redcar, but postponed buying a car until I moved house, just outside Derby. So I buy this brand new car, and drove straight to Nottingham, picked up some friends and drove them to a pub just outside Chesterfield. I was of course a little rusty - not having driven for 2 months. Going up the M1 at 70mph, my mate pointed out that the car had more than three gears! In Chesterfield I did an emergency stop when a car jumped red lights and cut straight across me. Shortly afterwards, I swerved onto the kerb to let an ambulance pass by. When we got to the pub, I'd never seen folk drink so fast - or so much - as they steadied their nerves and prepared for the return leg of the journey! :hihi: :hihi:

I remember mine.

Decided to drive to college, tried to light a cigarette and then when I looked back up, I was on the wrong side of the road!!

Ahh - how times and attitudes have changed!

I passed first time at the end of Nov 2004... I waited right up until Jan 24th 2005 for my first car lol! We'd been searching everywhere for one, but all we found was rubbish, clapped out cars with more wrong with them than what was right lol! Some people don't understand the meaning of a full service history... One man thought that because his car had gone through the MOT every year, he had FSH... Oh dear me...! (But on closer inspection, one thinks he was trying to pull the wool over our eyes)

My car finally arrived on my back yard on the last Sunday in January... I arrived at my parents house, anxious to get off to the Asda before all the sale stuff went and found my Dad washing a strange blue car!!! yay as you can imagine I was surprised and chuffed to bits!!

My Dad drove me, Mum and my Sister to Morrisons to get some petrol, but felt unwell as he went round the shops.. He asked me if I'd feel confident enough to drive, which I did, so I went ahead with it! (No "P" plates or anything...) I did have to inform my Dad that the previous night I'd been to the pub, spending the money I'd saved for petrol, as I was that disheartened over not finding a car after 2 months of searching... So after attempting to recall the ammount of alcohol I'd consumed the prior night, my Dad concluded that it'd probably been through my system and should be fine.
I managed to get us home in one piece... Despite driving on 40mph roads in 2nd gear because I wasnt used to the clutch and darent use the gears lol!

After a week at Dad's SOM I passed and was allowed to take the car out without his supervision... I remember driving up East bank road (what a hill!!!) then driving down richmond road to the asda and parking as far away from the shop as I could, so that no-one would park next to me as I had never been shown how to park a car properly!!! lol!

My Mum still calls it a "fright ride" when I take her to the shops, but I notice she's been getting a bit more comfortable in the car as she's started texting which involves taking at least one eye off the road hehehe

I passed my test first time in January 1987. When my dad got back from work that night he threw the keys of the beige mark 4 or was it 3? cortina and instructed me to go off on my own.
I drove all the way up halifax road kept on the main road for about an hour, before turning around and driving back again. I realised that I had not made any turns which I didn't have to because I didn't want to bother with the complications of the turning procedure!.

My first trip after passing my test was down to a mates to pick them up, and I got flashed by one of them boards :help: (lucky for me it was just one that warns you) I remember that it flashed that I was going 36 mph (the same speed as all the other traffic).

It really shook me up and I think I must of drove 20mph all the way home, just hoping it was a flash one and not an actual speed camera as they were pretty rarely seen 10 years ago! Can you imagine the horror getting done for speeding on your first ever outing, I would of never been allowed to borrow the car again! :nono:

Oh gosh I forgot, before I was allowed the car all to myself, my Dad followed me in his car, as I did my first bout of night driving... I set off before they came round the corner from our driveway and obviously couldn't tell me that I'd left my interior mirror on... lol! I drove for three and a half miles until I stopped and my Dad told me my driving was excellent except that I'd broken the law... Adamant that I'd not been speeding, I defended myself, but my Dad simply told me I'd driven all the way with a spotlight above me and might have been pulled up by the cops lol.... oops!

I passed my test in 5 lessons :banana: :clap: :cool:

I went to the local garden centre to buy my mum a bunch of flowers to thank her for me passing my test....

cos she taught me..

and many hunderds more....

aren't mums great :thumbsup:

I could hardly wait to be allowed to drive my car without a passenger and can still remember the excitement as I drove down to Nottingham and back on the motorway before trundling round the city and pulling up and hooting outside virtually everyone's house that I knew. Quite a few of my friends had been brave enough to sit next to me whilst i'd been learning and so i was quite accustomed to seeing a set of white knuckles grabbing the seat or dashboard it was just a bit annoying though that after i'd passed my test the same white knuckles were sometimes observed.

March 18th, 2003. 11am, I passed my test! Was home by 11.55am, in the car at 12 noon, and drove around with my mates for about 12 hours solid. No accidents, no near accidents, stereo banged up (I had already bought my car and had a stereo, alarm, speakers and subwoofer put in!) just enjoying being able to drive without an instructor!

Oh my gooooodddd. I wish I didn't see this.

Test Friday so don't really wanna be thinking about it! If I pass I will let you all know! (It will probably be to the shop round the corner and back if I can park it...how lazy!) x

I'll never forget mine, I was put forward for mine after one lesson...I passed with the army, I went a bought a car off my trp Cpl forr £300...it was a rusty old B reg vauxhall astra...

Anyway, I drove home (Bovington - Plymouth) and upon doing 70mph on the A38 I found the brakes didn't work.....I found myself lying in a hospital bed after I had hit a kurb and spun in the air and then wrapped myself around a lamp post (Literally)

So it's not a journey I will ever forget :loopy: :loopy:

I drove my dad's car into town the day after (dad put me on his insurance) and did some shopping. Excellent!

I remember my first journey. I drove to work after passing that day (27/1/04)...but mum wouldnt let me drive home on my own so she took the carback and came back with it at 11pm :mad:

BUT my first real journey on my own was from Stocksbridge, through wharncliffe side, then i turned around on the one way bit, and went back via Brightholmlee Rd and then down past morehall reserviour...a journey i repeated a few weeks ago....but under very different circumstances....but no accidents, or near fatal crashes or anything. But since then ive hit 2 cars, backed into a post, snapped an accelerator cable, wrote off a power-steering pump, broke my electric window motor and replaced about a million light bulbs!! Am i the most unlucky driver in the world?? :suspect:

Originally posted by Avalon
But since then ive hit 2 cars, backed into a post, snapped an accelerator cable, wrote off a power-steering pump, broke my electric window motor and replaced about a million light bulbs!! Am i the most unlucky driver in the world?? :suspect:

You are if all that happened in the same journey!

Originally posted by alchresearch
You are if all that happened in the same journey!

Not all on the same journey!! On differnet ones...but i have only been driving for a year...so that pushes the average up a bit!

BTW: Whats with the hex numbers in your signature?

Originally posted by Clare85
Oh my gooooodddd. I wish I didn't see this.

Test Friday so don't really wanna be thinking about it! If I pass I will let you all know! (It will probably be to the shop round the corner and back if I can park it...how lazy!) x

My test is also on friday :thumbsup:

Best of luck to us both! ;)

My first journey driving after I got my license was really crap.
Firslty my parents not content with the fact that the government had entrusted me with the right of driving thought it would be good to make me have them along while I was driving for a month after I passed.

The first journey I drove was with my stressing father between a DIY rental store back to the house and he thought he'd point out trees and how the wind could blow them down... a bit like Hyacinth Bouquet really...

My first drive on me own was for the Municipal Elections and I was allowed to drive to the polling station and back all by myself.

My first drive after passing my test was in my first car, a 'y' reg beige festa with a brown vinyl roof !!

I went to pick my auntie up - for sunday dinner at my mums.

I had only driven the instructors car before which was brand new and had good brakes, so the stopping distance on the fiesta was a bit longer than I was used to.

The first couple of junctions were a bit scary, I knew I had got a bit close to the car in front when my auntie read me the headlines of the newspaper on his parcel shelf.

Got home without any accidents though so not too bad for a first go,

As soon as i got home from my passing my test i got out of my test car and into my own car before my instructor had backed out of the drive, i went to see my friend in hospital who had had an operation that morning x 17th March 1997!!!!

My first journey after passing was to the hospital... no I didn't crash the car!

I don't know if it was the joy of passing or nerves of the actual test but I went into premature labour :wow: ...my daughter was born 8 weeks early....i'll never forget that journey! :smile:

Passed Jan 1969 aged 17 and three months in a Land Rover.

First journey was about March 1969 towing a trailer from Nuneaton, Warwickshire to Larkhill, Wiltshire. Sergeant who taught me told me to forget everything I'd been told on run up to test and do what comes naturally.

"If you drive as per the test," he said, "we'll never bloody get there."

Set off without closing towing hook and trailer overtook us before we left vehicle park. No other glitches though.:(

Originally posted by IanMitchell
My test is also on friday :thumbsup:

Best of luck to us both! ;)

No way!!! What time. Yes good luck to us both!!!!

Not a journey as such, but the first time I drove after passing my test was on the test-drive of a second-hand Metro. For some reason, I remember the salesman was in the passenger seat (I don't think he trusted the car with someone who'd only just passed her test!).

I enjoyed the drive and thought the car was great, deciding to buy it. Noticed, however, that the salesman seemed a little nervous - speaking in quite a high voice and occasionally gripping the dashboard ..... At the end of the drive he seemed very keen to get out of the car ..... can't imagine why :D

Anyway, it was a great little car and lovely to drive :)

StarSparkle

PS Good luck Ian and Clare :thumbsup:

I remember my mum passing her driving test many years ago after I think it was 5 times. She came home from work all chuffed with herself. She then said ok we having fish and chips for tea, only so she could go out in car. She reversed off our driveway and ran over my brothers brand new Yam 50 bike! He wasnt a happy bunny! we still laugh about this every now and then.

Mum got me insured on her car and I drove it around the block to the post-box as I needed to mail some letters. Unfortunately I was concentrating on the road so much and trying to get used to a different car to the one I learned to drive in that I missed the post-box completely and carried on around the block wondering if it'd been removed. Needless to say it hadn't. :loopy: :roll:

I passed in 1991, and was working for a recruiting company in town. Thinking that I was a"proper" driver (as oppose to someone that'd just passed their test and had no car), they asked me to "do them a favour" and collect something from the Manchester branch. Of course, I never told them any different and was looking forward to having a go.

The car was was parked in the Canal Wharf car park, so my first obstacle was Park Square Roundabout. I then had to try and get OUT of town (sounds easy when you know how, but I kept going round and round in circles and one way systems!)

I also didn't know exactly how to get to Manc, other than you go to Rivelin and carry on... I managed to go the longest way, ended up on a motorway (!!!) and on my way back, missed the snake pass turn off (you know where I mean), ended up heading towards Stocksbridge and panicked - the round trip took be about 8 hours and I came back an absolute total wreak.

The up side was that I never worried about driving locally when I eventually got a car. It all seemed quite easy in comparison.