Here's the story behind that piece of paper that caused yaya so much $$ and headache... Yaya once thought she should just give up trying...
If you have not heard the disaster with Car 206 in yaya’s first attempt, click here. Basically, yaya was so gan jiong that she couldn’t pull the handbrake while on the slope, striked kerb (x3) during parallel parking and directional change, and mounted kerb at vertical parking. Halleluyah…
The night before the second attempt, yaya had the 闲情逸致 to drink 花茶. Ended up yaya stayed awake for the whole night, woke up late on the 2nd morning, took bus 81 (saw it as 51), only realized her mistake after the bus went on the expressway, hurriedly alighted, hopped on a taxi and arrived late for warm-up. During the test, yaya started the car, stepped on BRAKE (instead of accelerator) and wondered why the car didn’t move (= delay in moving off, 2 points). Yaya mounted kerb again while turning in the narrow road to do parallel parking. Sianz… Whatever happened after that was due to the “die liao heck care” attitude.
Yaya didn’t manage to book an earlier test (this one is 5 months after no. 2) because she happily went to Niagara Falls & NYC! Anyway, the third attempt was at a 430pm slot (warning! BUS LANE hours) cos yaya was pek chek when everytime she went to the CDC counter there’s only 830am or 430pm slots left! Although Yaya had LOTS of sleep the previous night after what happened in no. 2 and an almost perfect warm-up, she cui-ed during vertical parking cos the car refused to get into the lot and yaya’s correction c.m.i. Yaya politely asked to re-try the vertical parking and this time round it went in straight in one attempt! (Yay!) And the tester said “Sorry, you’ve exceeded the time limit.” (dotzzz.. WHY is that an immediate failure!?!) And even though Yaya had failed already, the tester brought her out and went a HUGE round outside. And cos the traffic conditions were so horrible at 5pm, yaya could not change lane and somemore kana horn-ed at by some cruel idiot. *sigh*
Luckily Yaya took the lesson from no. 3 and booked a test slot at the optimum time of 155pm this time round. But the storm came before she left the house for warm-up. So yaya mournfully walked out and decided to take a taxi (in case she is late cos of the rain). In the end the taxi took her a huge round (went all way to potong pasir and up expressway before going to paya lebar) and made her so freaked out she’s going to be late even after taking taxi! Luckily, she arrived on time. Guess what? It’s our old friend 206 again! This time round, 206 gave yaya a roll backwards on the slope (cos yaya didn’t make very good relations with the handbrake again) and the engine stalled when yaya was going to turn back into the driving centre! yaya’s legs must have turned jelly after such a “safe” test!
Ta-da!!! Yaya Finally PASSED! (with 2 demerit points only – for that rollback!)
Phew… Come to think of it… Yaya feels like a good driver… Just that she gets gan jiong once the tester is around. Testers should be more friendly, right?! WHY make yaya so scared of them every test? The tester who passed yaya gave her the results slip and shooed her away without talking to her! While yaya was totally freaking out (what if the tester gave me many many small small points) cos the tester DIDN’T say a word! Heng... no need for any more driving tests le... Hurray!