crazed, bizarre stories

[Tash]

yesterday i went for my driving test to get my P's (for those non-aussies you have your L's for a year driving with someone older for 50hrs then get your P's for 3 years and then get your full license) and i'd done an hr lesson before and it was all fine and i was feeling quite confident about passing. so go into the RTA and get the tester and blah, and i go back to my car and open the door, look on the side of the thing that the steering wheel and all that is on and there's this MASSIVE SPIDER crawling down towards the underneath of it. i was like OH MY GOD so ran off to get my instructor and was like there's a spider in the car i'm NOT getting in. and he's more scared of spiders than i am, so he attempted to push it out with a piece of paper but the spider just crawled in further til we couldn't see where it was. so driving instructor's like 'its gone' and i'm like 'no it's not' but we couldn't relaly do much about it, so i took the risk of doing my test with the spider somewhere near my feet, preparing to suddenly stop and attempt to not swerve and crash if it crawled up my leg. so i was completely distracted by that the whole time, and thus forgot to look for cars at an intersection going forward when i was turning right and nearly smashed into one! so of course i failed so d*mn the spider to hell. we had to wait til we drove home and my dad came and got the spider out- huge huntsman! so the moral of the story is always check your car for spiders before doing your driving test!!

anyone else have a crazed story like that?!

[athykay]

Great story!   Moral:  Learn to love 8-legged critters - they're  at your service.

[brewtality]

you're 19 and you still haven't got your P's?  jeez, that must suck.

[galonia]

you're 19 and you still haven't got your P's? jeez, that must suck.

That's nothing - my cousin is 27 and still on his L's.  His wife is saying now that she expects when she falls pregnant, she will prepare to go to the hospital on the bus once she goes into labour!

But I agree with Brewtality - tash, how can you leave it till you're 19?  I though almost everyone gets their P's as soon as they turn 17.

[willcowskitz]

I though almost everyone gets their P's as soon as they turn 17.

Uhh... In Finland, you can't even get a licence before you're 18.
I'm glad I never had an absolute need for it either.

[Tash]

That's nothing - my cousin is 27 and still on his L's. His wife is saying now that she expects when she falls pregnant, she will prepare to go to the hospital on the bus once she goes into labour!

But I agree with Brewtality - tash, how can you leave it till you're 19? I though almost everyone gets their P's as soon as they turn 17.

pheh i still had heaps of friends who at 17 didn't get their P's til we'd finished the HSC. except they had their L's. but i was one of the even worse people who didn't actually bother getting their L's til march 2004- BUT now i've beaten many friends who are about to lost their L's they've had them so long and have only done like 15hrs and i've done my full 50 in like 7 months.
so the reason i didn't bother getting them earlier is because my parents won't let me drive their car- we have a special left foot accelerator cos my mum's right leg is crushed thus she can't drive with it so if i smash it then she's screwed- and they aren't planning on buying me my own car. so i'll have my P's and won't drive til i'm like 25 anyway so there was really no rush! but i know so many people my age who don't have their P's, some who don't even have their L's yet! so i'm not THAT bad!

[brewtality]

pheh i still had heaps of friends who at 17 didn't get their P's til we'd finished the HSC. except they had their L's.

Tash you could have gotten your P's in the summer holidays 2002 before the HSC got serious (i remember i had like 1 CapA in yr 11)

they've had them so long and have only done like 15hrs and i've done my full 50 in like 7 months.

they take that 50 hours thing seriously? its not enforced here, they don't ask for proof of 50 hours worth of driving

but i know so many people my age who don't have their P's, some who don't even have their L's yet! so i'm not THAT bad!

one of my mates only got his P's last yr but that's because he was a boarder.

anyway goodluck for your next driving test. You should probably bring some Raid with you next time

[galonia]

Almost all the year 12's at my school drove to school (or were given lifts by friends) - we had a carpark for Year 12's.  Yes, bring some insecticide to your next driving test!!!

Uhh... In Finland, you can't even get a licence before you're 18.
I'm glad I never had an absolute need for it either.

In Australia, if you can't drive, you may as well be in prison - seriously, the place is so big, and public transport so bad, if you can't drive, it's actually dangerous coz in an emergency, you can't do anything, you're just stuck.

[Tash]

Tash you could have gotten your P's in the summer holidays 2002 before the HSC got serious (i remember i had like 1 CapA in yr 11)


they take that 50 hours thing seriously? its not enforced here, they don't ask for proof of 50 hours worth of driving


one of my mates only got his P's last yr but that's because he was a boarder.

anyway goodluck for your next driving test. You should probably bring some Raid with you next time

1) half my friends have birthdays in the first half of the year and thus were only turning 17 until like july of yr12! like we did have many driving to school that year- not enough to get a carpark, the school was really quite narky about kids driving, they had to get permission slips and everything it was nuts. and i didn't need to drive to school anyway cos it was only a 10-15 minute walk

2) yes they check the whole 50 hrs thing here, at least it's not like victoria where they apparently have to do like 150hrs!

and public transport isn't so bad! like i couldn't get to uni any other way really, cos parking'd be a b*tch at both campuses, and i get lifts from friends or parents anyway, so it's really not that bad!
unless we're talking about good old outback australia when you're living in the middle of nowhere. then you're screwed

[pianonut]

i used to be deathly scared of spiders until we moved to lancaster (near the mojave desert).  one night, i went out to get a drink of water (baby in crib in nearby room) and there were these two giant spiders on the livingroom floor (they come out only at night to get you).  i was shaking and about to scream, but that would wake everyone up, so i rolled up the newspaper and pounded one to death.  he was way dead.  the other one ran under the couch.  i couldn't go to sleep until i killed him, so i waited and waited (and then he did it) he crawled up the wall.  i smashed him.  those were the kind that look like tarantulas (big and hairy).  all i can say, is if you are wondering if you have spiders in the house, TURN ON THE LIGHT in the hallway so you don't step on one accidentally before it is killed when you go for a glass of water.  These must have come in the chimney or through the door when it was open, because my house was clean.

the only other crazed story i can bore you with, is that i came home the other day and found my three year old with an interesting haircut.  i really thought someone had taken her to the beauty shop, and thinned her hair.  it looked semi-cute.  then, i saw the small paper scissors on the floor and two big locks of hair.  since then she has shifted to cutting her dolls hair.

[pianonut]

slight case of insomnia, so here goes another crazed story.  my son, (now 15) when three years old got his head stuck in our patio fence (iron bars) that were say 6-7 inch wide bars.  they wouldn't budge, and i didn't want to pull his head back through and damage his ears.  the poor kid was just stuck there like charlie brown (big head and little body).  after looking at the situation and his skinny frame--i turned his body sideways and stuffed him the rest of the way through.

i have been to the emergency room for so many things!  one "vacation" was in the emergency room.  (children are 5-6 years apart from each other) with the last child, we had just gotten to our destination, unpacked suitcases and heard a chilling scream.  the three year old was jumping on the bed and bit her tongue as she sat down.  thankfully she didn't need stitches, but they gave her antibiotics because it was a deep bite.

[DarkWind]

Hey tash, use some periods! My mind went out of breath reading that... 

[Tash]

LOL i should try that sometime i must appear to be a really fast talker, but i'm not! hehehe

i love it how the most bizarre stories happen to people's kids. i can't wait til i have kids