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Driving Test magick?

22:43 / 10.08.04

I'm sitting my driving test (for the 3rd time) on Friday 13th. (The place where I'm taking it has about a 40% pass rate, it's tricky!)

I'm going to ask Gek for help, but does anyone have any quick and easy magickal ways I can increase my chances of passing?

I don't have much time to get too many ingredients together, so ideas for simple rituals/charms/hoodoo/candle burning things would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike.

Regrettable Juvenilia

23:18 / 10.08.04

Dude. Unless you can convince us that the driving test is an unfair way of assessing someone's capability to drive safely, and demonstrate to us through other means that you are capable of driving well and safely... Why would anyone possibly want to help you do this?

23:37 / 10.08.04

Well, you don't live near me, so I can help without worrying about life and limb.

I suggest simply smiling. If you give your driving instructor a big, friendly and sincere smile, he's likely to go easier on you.

And try not to run anyone over. They don't like that.
Not the instructors and not the people being run over.

00:54 / 11.08.04

Or fairly that, just wear a short skirt and batt your eyelids a lot.

01:03 / 11.08.04

Flyboy, well ages ago, I had a North Carolina driving licence, the pass rate in Manteo where I took it was way more than 90%, I also used to have a Tanzanian driving license (they have a similar, ridiculously high pass rate over there too). Now, where I live in the UK, the pass rate is just less than 40%, and the test costs way more than in NC, and Tanzania (like about ten times as much), so yes, I'd say it was pretty unfair.

If you're American, you probably think failing a driving test is a pretty dumb thing to do. But over here, you automatically fail if one of your wheels slightly brushes against the curb at any time during three different manouvers. You can also fail if the examiner isn't quite sure if you checked ALL your mirrors and blind spot or not, before you even use your turn signal! It's absurd, not to mention very expensive, with a three month waiting list to re-take the test.

I'm a perfectly average driver, as I mentioned, I already passed two driving tests abroad. But I don't want to have to waste another £60, and three months of my time waiting to do it a fourth time!

Alex, that would probably get me locked up.

Any more ideas?

Mike.

09:01 / 11.08.04

Well i managed after the 5th time !
However 2 really helpfull things to remember .

1) Talk to the examiner , if your confident enought to speak to them and drive , it goes along way.
2) If they mention their going to flexytime or thinking of industrial action , support them whole hartedly . I did , mounted the kerb on a reverse park and still passed !!

(In the UK !)
Main thing is relax , its cliche but it helps a lot !

13:28 / 11.08.04

The British driving test is not unfair. Other nations simply have an (even more) cavalier attitude to road -- i.e. pedestrian -- safety.

I know everythinbg about driving tests -- I only passed at the fourth attempt (still one better than Ozymandus!).

The secret is this: the mechanics of driving are piss easy, and safety is common sense. The theory test is also easy, it just takes some effort.

However, what is not easy is coming to terms with the fact that you're going to be chucking a two ton lump of metal down the road and could, if you're not really careful, kill someone at any second, possibly yourself.

That's what driving examiners are looking for; someone who is not only competent, and careful, but confident enough not to freak out on the roads.

Case in point: the second time I failed, I came this close to writing off the car and rubbing out myself and the examiner under the wheels of a ten ton lorry that was no more than three meters away when I pulled in front of it, and doing over 40. In Hornchurch, which is one of the most dangerous driving areas in Britain. I can still hear the gasp of panic and the white face on the examiner.

When I was ready to drive, I passed, easily.

That's a more magickal answer than it looks.

18:16 / 11.08.04

The aboves all true (mind you good job you didnt have to spot the differnce between a S and a Z ;-) ).

While i was being midly sarcy , the act of performing multipule tacks is teh key and finding your own Zen of driving .

My reason for failing the test(s) was really nerves , most of the time the driving was fine then id be asked to do a manuver and just lose it(for the reasons mentioned above , 2 tons of metal , pedestrians agggh no (not that i came close like some people) !! . Its the zen mind that finaly got me through, just being aware and in the moment.

Remember though it is a skill and not everyone needs to learn, dont obess about it !

19:30 / 11.08.04

I don't quite understand how you would need to focus your energies on something as arbitrary as a driving test. You would gain far more actually paying attention to the road, looking for other drivers than devising a ritual to pass a test that requires minimal skill.

23:25 / 11.08.04

Aye, as above. Focus your energies on relaxing, being one with the car and the road. When you are no longer thinking about how to drive and are just doing it, you are ready. The car should feel like an extension of yourself. You are not turning the weel and presing the gas, you are simply moving to the right. There's a different sort of magick in that than you were looking for.