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<p>When you think about it, it&#39;s insane that we allow teenagers whose brains aren&#39;t done developing to operate thousand-pound machinery.</p><p>It&#39;s especially insane when you consider some of these driver&#39;s ed horror stories.</p><p>A<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/m5mapf/driving_school_teachers_what_are_the_most/"> recent Reddit thread</a> asked driving school teachers to share their most outrageous stories. Teachers and students alike responded, and clearly if these are the people going through driving school, we should all be a bit more careful out on the roads.</p><h2>1. This must&#39;ve been an easy one to mark.</h2><blockquote> <p>a woman was backing out of the parking space too quickly and hit a car behind her. [The instructor] turns to the driver, and tells her to park back in the space, she guns it and hits the DMV building itself! She then turns to him and asks &quot;Did I pass?&quot;. - naugasnake</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Driving slow is not the best plan.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work as a receptionist at a driving school and got to see the before and after for students and their parents. So many stories but the two that come to mind that always flabbergast me were:</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>A mom telling her daughter to always go 10 miles under the speed limit no matter what right before her driving test. So if the speed limit is 25, she should go 15 and so on. I had to explain that unless conditions required her to go slower than speed limit (weather, traffic, etc.) she becomes more of a hazard if she is going under speed limit all the time. I&#39;m all for driving safe but there are better ways to go about it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The girl who got in an accident on her driving test that she caused (I believe she ran a red that had been red for a while and hit a car that had right of way), in front of a cop. She didn&#39;t understand why she failed and tried to argue about it and schedule an appointment for the same day to retake. - LinaInverse04</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. This doesn&#39;t sound like the best teaching strategy.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had an instructor who was famous for never using his teacher&#39;s brake - even when he should. I was riding in the back seat when another student was merging onto the freeway for the first time. The kid is looking over his shoulder and concentrating, concentrating, concentrating. He&#39;s determined to make the merge . . . and never looked forward as he accelerated down the ramp.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>We drifted off the side and hit the snowbank at 50 mph, snow was roaring over the hood, and we ground to a stop buried to the top of the windshield, with an orange &quot;Student Driver&quot; sign sticking out the top. The kid was shaking and gripping the wheel with white knuckles when the teacher says, as calmly as can be, &quot;you oughta look forward once in a while when you go down the ramp&quot;. - 4141</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. How do you <em>hit a human </em>during your driving test?!</h2><blockquote> <p>In the UK, part of the larger vehicle tests are conducted in a yard before leaving to do the &#39;on road&#39; part of the examination. These parts are observed by the examiner from outside the vehicle, and include a reversing exercise &amp; an emergency stop.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>In short, (bus) test candidate knocked over the examiner during the emergency stop, sending him and his clipboard flying a few metres onto tarmac.</p> <p>Luckily he was not seriously hurt, but everybody from then on used to make an exaggerated &#39;stand the hell back&#39; motion whenever this part of the test happened. - ZenusTrucker</p> </blockquote><h2>5. The poor squirrel.</h2><blockquote> <p>student ran over a grey squirrel. stopped the car, got out and got it. brought it back to the car and asked if she could bring it to a veterinary&#39;s office. - 2_legit_2care</p> </blockquote><h2>6. This is amazing.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to live in Paris as a teenager. People there drive wildly. I was taking the final exam, I was super focused on not making mistakes, when some crazy driver just purposely missed a stop sign and rushed in front of me. The examiner had to do an emergency brake, which usually is a major mistake. I thought &laquo; that&rsquo;s it, I&rsquo;m f***** &raquo;, and then he opened the window, flipped at the other car while yelling some rich words at him. Then calmly told me &laquo; Parisian are a**holes. Continue please. &raquo; and I passed. - Art1924</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m a police driving instructor, so I teach new recruits emergency operations of police cars. [...] I watched as a car driven by a recruit made the turn onto the beginning of the course. The lights and siren came on and the car accelerated down the road. At the end of this road there is a stop sign at a T-intersection, and on the other side of the intersection is some grass and then the forest. You&rsquo;re supposed to stop, clear the intersection, and turn right.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The car kept accelerating toward the intersection longer than what we were used to seeing, but I thought maybe this was just a particularly aggressive recruit. Most of them are more timid on the first few runs. However the car was way past where they normally start slowing down, and looked like it was going to blow through the intersection, when suddenly we see the car veer to the right and spin out into the grass. We then see the instructor and the recruit get out of the car and the instructor is yelling and cussing at the recruit.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>They switch seats and come driving back to the staging area. The instructor gets out and meets with the head instructor. He explains that as they approached the intersection and he began to realize that the recruit was not stopping he looked over and saw that the recruit had a glazed over look on his face, kind of like a 1,000 yard stare. He started yelling at the recruit to stop, but the recruit was not reacting at all. Realizing they were about to run through the intersection and go into the woods, he grabbed the wheel from the recruit, and put them into a spin.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>When he asked the recruit what the hell happened, the recruit said &ldquo;sometimes, when I get stressed, I kind of halfway black out.&rdquo; That was the end of the recruit&rsquo;s law enforcement journey, as that trait is not very compatible with the career. - Guac__Is__Extra</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. This is insane.</h2><blockquote> <p>During one of my 3 hour lessons (where we usually would take the highways out to the city), the instructor told me to pull into a bank parking lot. He goes inside and leaves me there for 45-50 minutes. He finally comes back and says &ldquo;Sorry, I lost my debit card last week and needed a new one&rdquo;, then tells me that we&rsquo;ll have to extend my lesson by an hour to make up for it. I told him that wouldn&rsquo;t work as I had a shift at work and extending the lesson would make me late.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I get that bank&rsquo;s have horribly short hours, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean you screw over the 16 year old who spent 5 months saving for your damn driving school to get there while they&rsquo;re open. That hour I lost never did get made up on another day. Also the dude had no clue how to teach parallel parking and I almost failed that portion of my driving test following the way he showed me. - mrsprinkles3</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. What the...</h2><blockquote> <p>I had my instructor (who was also my gym teacher), make me drive him to McDonalds and go through the drive through to get breakfast (he got me a mcmuffin and hashbrown), drove around a bit, then stopped by his house so he could take a s***. Learned then his daughter was HOT. After he got back to the car he told us (3 of us in the car at the time with him) that we are not to tell anyone about his daughter, and we all pass. - Muavius</p> </blockquote><h2>10. She sure told him.</h2><blockquote> <p>I taught mostly foreign students studying in the US. I have lots of stories. The first is about the mid 30&#39;s woman from Bangladesh. We are driving around a surburban neighborhood getting acclimated to making 90 degree turns. Pretty low key not scary stuff. Her phone rings so she stops in the middle of the road to reach her purse in the back seat to answer her call. I informed her she must first pull to the side of the road as you cannot just stop in the middle of the street. She told me I could not tell her what to do. - electricslicers</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. Why even let this person take the test?!</h2><blockquote> <p>The second one was a woman in her late 20&#39;s from Saudi Arabi. She was graduating college in 3 weeks and wanted to go home with a DL as women could not drive in her country. I go to pick her up and I ask the standard, &quot; Have you ever driven before&quot;. She replied she knew what she was doing. 3 minutes in I ask her again because she was performing like this was her first time behind the wheel.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>She then stated that she had watched her family driver many times from her vantage point in the back seat. I made her pull over and I drove her to an empty parking lot. She was just not getting it after about 4 actual hours in the car with me on multiple days but she insisted I take her to the licensing bureau for her driving test.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I had no choice but to take her even though I knew she would fail. They call her name and off she goes with the testing person. 7 minutes later the tester walks through the door and straight up to me. She said the woman had about taken out a school bus and that she (the tester) had to grab the wheel to keep them out of the ditch. I was asked for advance warning if I ever returned with such a bad driver. - electricslicers</p> </blockquote><h2>12. I don&#39;t think that was a hangover.</h2><blockquote> <p>My driver instructor once, clearly hungover, but on a Pink Floyd CD and had me drive around country roads for 50 minutes while he had a nap. - andashowrehat</p> </blockquote><h2>13. Awwww.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a student so excited to drive that when he open the door to get in he hit himself in the forehead with the door and cut himself so bad I had to drive him to the hospital to get stitches. - RossieMazzotta</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Yikes.</h2><blockquote> <p>one time in a drivers Ed class this girl was driving and ran over a loud, clunky manhole cover that thumped. She was always nervous when it was her turn to drive. I guess she didn&rsquo;t see it coming because she screamed and goes &ldquo;What was that?!?&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The teacher looks back and goes &ldquo;Oh god it&rsquo;s a dog. Oh god he&rsquo;s flopping. We gotta go back and finish him off.&rdquo; Stuff like that while the girl descends into a kind of jittery sobbing.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Anyways, she threw up in our school drivers Ed car and we had to keep using it anyways. A whole spring semester of puke smell in 5th period. - Taste__the__Rainbow</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15. Sounds like an eventful test.</h2><blockquote> <p>I passed my driver&rsquo;s license in Inglewood, CA. I was not very familiar with the neighborhood, they just happened to have a space for exam appointment. I pull up to an intersection, and then a random car starts to do donuts in the middle of the intersection for a couple of minute. The instructor was unimpressed, she just told me to wait and to go once they were done. - lord_of_rivia</p> </blockquote><h2>16. What&#39;s worse than learning to drive? Learning to drive while someone tries to sell you on their religion.</h2><blockquote> <p>I took my drivers ed course, rode with the instructor, everything went well. Then as I&#39;m driving back to my house, he starts asking me questions about being saved by Jesus.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Turns out, he was a born again Christian and would use his position to try and speak with kids and their parents about converting to Christianity. Well, jokes on you, I grew up Presbyterian, which as far as I&#39;ve figured out, means that if you&#39;ve got to mow the lawn on a Sunday morning, you skip church. My parents were NOT amused when we got back to the house. - Fromhe</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 driving instructors and students share horror stories from behind the wheel.

When you think about it, it&#39;s insane that we allow teenagers whose brains aren&#39;t done developing to operate thousand-pound machinery.It&#39;s especially insane when you consider some of these driver&#39;s ed horror stories.A recent Reddit thread asked driving school teachers to share their most outrageous stories. Teachers and students alike responded, and clearly if these are the people going through driving school, we should all be a bit more careful out on the roads.1. This must&#39;ve been an easy one to mark. a woman was backing out of the parking space too quickly and hit a car behind her. [The instructor] turns to the driver, and tells her to park back in the space, she guns it and hits the DMV building itself! She then turns to him and asks &quot;Did I pass?&quot;. - naugasnake 2. Driving slow is not the best plan. I used to work as a receptionist at a driving school and got to see the before and after for students and their parents. So many stories but the two that come to mind that always flabbergast me were:   A mom telling her daughter to always go 10 miles under the speed limit no matter what right before her driving test. So if the speed limit is 25, she should go 15 and so on. I had to explain that unless conditions required her to go slower than speed limit (weather, traffic, etc.) she becomes more of a hazard if she is going under speed limit all the time. I&#39;m all for driving safe but there are better ways to go about it.   The girl who got in an accident on her driving test that she caused (I believe she ran a red that had been red for a while and hit a car that had right of way), in front of a cop. She didn&#39;t understand why she failed and tried to argue about it and schedule an appointment for the same day to retake. - LinaInverse04 3. This doesn&#39;t sound like the best teaching strategy. I had an instructor who was famous for never using his teacher&#39;s brake - even when he should. I was riding in the back seat when another student was merging onto the freeway for the first time. The kid is looking over his shoulder and concentrating, concentrating, concentrating. He&#39;s determined to make the merge . . . and never looked forward as he accelerated down the ramp.   We drifted off the side and hit the snowbank at 50 mph, snow was roaring over the hood, and we ground to a stop buried to the top of the windshield, with an orange &quot;Student Driver&quot; sign sticking out the top. The kid was shaking and gripping the wheel with white knuckles when the teacher says, as calmly as can be, &quot;you oughta look forward once in a while when you go down the ramp&quot;. - 4141 4. How do you hit a human during your driving test?! In the UK, part of the larger vehicle tests are conducted in a yard before leaving to do the &#39;on road&#39; part of the examination. These parts are observed by the examiner from outside the vehicle, and include a reversing exercise &amp; an emergency stop.   In short, (bus) test candidate knocked over the examiner during the emergency stop, sending him and his clipboard flying a few metres onto tarmac. Luckily he was not seriously hurt, but everybody from then on used to make an exaggerated &#39;stand the hell back&#39; motion whenever this part of the test happened. - ZenusTrucker 5. The poor squirrel. student ran over a grey squirrel. stopped the car, got out and got it. brought it back to the car and asked if she could bring it to a veterinary&#39;s office. - 2_legit_2care 6. This is amazing. I used to live in Paris as a teenager. People there drive wildly. I was taking the final exam, I was super focused on not making mistakes, when some crazy driver just purposely missed a stop sign and rushed in front of me. The examiner had to do an emergency brake, which usually is a major mistake. I thought &laquo; that&rsquo;s it, I&rsquo;m f***** &raquo;, and then he opened the window, flipped at the other car while yelling some rich words at him. Then calmly told me &laquo; Parisian are a**holes. Continue please. &raquo; and I passed. - Art1924 7. I&rsquo;m a police driving instructor, so I teach new recruits emergency operations of police cars. [...] I watched as a car driven by a recruit made the turn onto the beginning of the course. The lights and siren came on and the car accelerated down the road. At the end of this road there is a stop sign at a T-intersection, and on the other side of the intersection is some grass and then the forest. You&rsquo;re supposed to stop, clear the intersection, and turn right.   The car kept accelerating toward the intersection longer than what we were used to seeing, but I thought maybe this was just a particularly aggressive recruit. Most of them are more timid on the first few runs. However the car was way past where they normally start slowing down, and looked like it was going to blow through the intersection, when suddenly we see the car veer to the right and spin out into the grass. We then see the instructor and the recruit get out of the car and the instructor is yelling and cussing at the recruit.   They switch seats and come driving back to the staging area. The instructor gets out and meets with the head instructor. He explains that as they approached the intersection and he began to realize that the recruit was not stopping he looked over and saw that the recruit had a glazed over look on his face, kind of like a 1,000 yard stare. He started yelling at the recruit to stop, but the recruit was not reacting at all. Realizing they were about to run through the intersection and go into the woods, he grabbed the wheel from the recruit, and put them into a spin.   When he asked the recruit what the hell happened, the recruit said &ldquo;sometimes, when I get stressed, I kind of halfway black out.&rdquo; That was the end of the recruit&rsquo;s law enforcement journey, as that trait is not very compatible with the career. - Guac__Is__Extra 8. This is insane. During one of my 3 hour lessons (where we usually would take the highways out to the city), the instructor told me to pull into a bank parking lot. He goes inside and leaves me there for 45-50 minutes. He finally comes back and says &ldquo;Sorry, I lost my debit card last week and needed a new one&rdquo;, then tells me that we&rsquo;ll have to extend my lesson by an hour to make up for it. I told him that wouldn&rsquo;t work as I had a shift at work and extending the lesson would make me late.   I get that bank&rsquo;s have horribly short hours, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean you screw over the 16 year old who spent 5 months saving for your damn driving school to get there while they&rsquo;re open. That hour I lost never did get made up on another day. Also the dude had no clue how to teach parallel parking and I almost failed that portion of my driving test following the way he showed me. - mrsprinkles3 9. What the... I had my instructor (who was also my gym teacher), make me drive him to McDonalds and go through the drive through to get breakfast (he got me a mcmuffin and hashbrown), drove around a bit, then stopped by his house so he could take a s***. Learned then his daughter was HOT. After he got back to the car he told us (3 of us in the car at the time with him) that we are not to tell anyone about his daughter, and we all pass. - Muavius 10. She sure told him. I taught mostly foreign students studying in the US. I have lots of stories. The first is about the mid 30&#39;s woman from Bangladesh. We are driving around a surburban neighborhood getting acclimated to making 90 degree turns. Pretty low key not scary stuff. Her phone rings so she stops in the middle of the road to reach her purse in the back seat to answer her call. I informed her she must first pull to the side of the road as you cannot just stop in the middle of the street. She told me I could not tell her what to do. - electricslicers 11. Why even let this person take the test?! The second one was a woman in her late 20&#39;s from Saudi Arabi. She was graduating college in 3 weeks and wanted to go home with a DL as women could not drive in her country. I go to pick her up and I ask the standard, &quot; Have you ever driven before&quot;. She replied she knew what she was doing. 3 minutes in I ask her again because she was performing like this was her first time behind the wheel.   She then stated that she had watched her family driver many times from her vantage point in the back seat. I made her pull over and I drove her to an empty parking lot. She was just not getting it after about 4 actual hours in the car with me on multiple days but she insisted I take her to the licensing bureau for her driving test.   I had no choice but to take her even though I knew she would fail. They call her name and off she goes with the testing person. 7 minutes later the tester walks through the door and straight up to me. She said the woman had about taken out a school bus and that she (the tester) had to grab the wheel to keep them out of the ditch. I was asked for advance warning if I ever returned with such a bad driver. - electricslicers 12. I don&#39;t think that was a hangover. My driver instructor once, clearly hungover, but on a Pink Floyd CD and had me drive around country roads for 50 minutes while he had a nap. - andashowrehat 13. Awwww. I had a student so excited to drive that when he open the door to get in he hit himself in the forehead with the door and cut himself so bad I had to drive him to the hospital to get stitches. - RossieMazzotta 14. Yikes. one time in a drivers Ed class this girl was driving and ran over a loud, clunky manhole cover that thumped. She was always nervous when it was her turn to drive. I guess she didn&rsquo;t see it coming because she screamed and goes &ldquo;What was that?!?&rdquo;   The teacher looks back and goes &ldquo;Oh god it&rsquo;s a dog. Oh god he&rsquo;s flopping. We gotta go back and finish him off.&rdquo; Stuff like that while the girl descends into a kind of jittery sobbing.   Anyways, she threw up in our school drivers Ed car and we had to keep using it anyways. A whole spring semester of puke smell in 5th period. - Taste__the__Rainbow 15. Sounds like an eventful test. I passed my driver&rsquo;s license in Inglewood, CA. I was not very familiar with the neighborhood, they just happened to have a space for exam appointment. I pull up to an intersection, and then a random car starts to do donuts in the middle of the intersection for a couple of minute. The instructor was unimpressed, she just told me to wait and to go once they were done. - lord_of_rivia 16. What&#39;s worse than learning to drive? Learning to drive while someone tries to sell you on their religion. I took my drivers ed course, rode with the instructor, everything went well. Then as I&#39;m driving back to my house, he starts asking me questions about being saved by Jesus.   Turns out, he was a born again Christian and would use his position to try and speak with kids and their parents about converting to Christianity. Well, jokes on you, I grew up Presbyterian, which as far as I&#39;ve figured out, means that if you&#39;ve got to mow the lawn on a Sunday morning, you skip church. My parents were NOT amused when we got back to the house. - Fromhe 

When you think about it, it&#39;s insane that we allow teenagers whose brains aren&#39;t done developing to operate thousand-pound machinery.  It&#39;s especially insane when you consider some of these driver&#39;s ed horror stories.  A...