I took my driving practical exam this morning and it was a disaster! :'( I scored 64 points... miserable wonder... Never in my wildest dream would I think I would score so badly... I was feeling so sad and disappointed that as I was sharing with Joanna about the experience in office, I actually couldn't control myself and I was crying as I was sharing with her. Halfway through, I find the experience so amusing myself that I was crying and laughing, then laughing and crying at the same time. Even Joanna found it so amusing that she was laughing so hard till she was tearing.
If I were to write a composition about my unluckiest day, then this would be the day. Whatever things that can go wrong all went wrong... even before I stepped into the car. As I was walking towards my car with the invigilator, my right heels got stuck in the drain!! You can imagine the embarrassment I felt as I kneel down to take out my shoe to remove the heels from the drain... My invigilator was standing besides me and laughing at me :'(
The moment I stepped into the car, I suddenly got so nervous that my mind went blank. I don't know if I appear so or do I look so "incompetent" to the invigilator that the moment I was about to start moving off, he immediately put his hand on the handbrake. It causes me to panic immediately, and it gotten so bad that within a minute of moving off, my left leg was shaking so violently even as I placed it on the clutch pedal. I was worried that I would lose control of the clutch pedal, so as I move up the slope as my first station, I had no choice but to stop there for about 30 seconds to rest my leg to prevent it from shaking. During this time, the car on my right was stationary and doesn't seems to be moving off down the slope. As I had to turn left, I have to cut into his lane, and since his car was stationary, I started moving left into his lane. God knows he suddenly started moving down the slope, and it causes me 8 points for causing other vehicles to slow down or stop :'( My invigilator then started reprimanding me and makes me even more nervous that I couldn't concentrate and I did a wide turning. Then he goes to say I have poor control of the car.
My next station was the directional change. This is my best station during my practices, and I never had any crop up before. But I was so nervous that I actually hit the kerb as I was reversing! Having no prior experience about hitting the kerb, I do not know how to troubleshoot and I was stuck there... not knowing whether to turn left or right while reversing especially when my mind was so blank... that the invigilator got to instruct me to reverse, turn right, turn left, go forward... etc. It felt like a driving lesson... He was nice though (some invigilators probably don't even bother to help you with troubleshooting). But I was still so nervous that as I tried to reverse into the lot again, I hit the kerb again... 20 points in total... I know by then I had already failed...
My next station was parallel parking. During practice, I had never knock into the pole before while moving out. To me, moving out is the easiest step in parallel parking. But I actually hit the pole while moving out this time... My nervousness caused me to turn the steering wheel too early...
The rest of the stations were fine... but by now, 56 points were already deducted inside the circuit. I'd gotten so discouraged that as I was driving on the road, my mind was all in a blank that I actually veered off course without me knowing it (I was driving in the middle of 2 lanes!)... my invigilator hinted to me but my mind was in a whirlwind that I couldn't catch his hint until he finally got to say it out bluntly to me. Makes me even more discouraged. By now, the invigilator was so scared his hands were practically on my handbrake most of the times. Nothing much happened on the road afterwards.
What an experience... Now as I think back, its quite amusing... Hee :-D
