Spent 3 hours this morning at the Driving License office. We have to get our Washington State Licenses (infact we're overdue to do so) and this makes the 3rd License I've had to take a test for. British, Canadian, and now here. Like the others, this one also involved a theory test.
Arrive at license office (typical seedy Govt building full to the brim with a giant wait time) and take a number. Queue for 1.5 hours, kids going mad, H screaming. Eventually get to the desk where we pay our $20 for the priviledge of taking the multiple choice theory test. G goes first while I try to keep the kids from destructing, then my turn. You have to do 25 questions and get no more than 5 wrong. I managed to get 4 wrong very quickly so I was well nervous that I'd flunk it, but thankfully managed to pass by getting all the final ones right. There were a load of tricky WA state specific ones which threw me.
Once that was complete we had to wait another 1.5 hours to book an appointment for the practical test - which proved difficult as they had none before July 27th (I'm going to the UK on July 24th) and you couldn't book for August yet. Duh. And G needs one ASAP as we have to renew our car insurance, so he couldn't do that either. Hopefully we'll be able to get a standby appointment at another office.... but what a waste of a morning to achieve a 2 minute theory test. Gah. Oh to be back on the beach!
Posted by katie at July 11, 2006 04:58 PMMy huband failed his first US driving test. He had previously driven in Europe and New Zealand and had no clue how to answer the questions that used US measurement units (500 ft. etc). At least he drove on the right side of the road :-P
Posted by: Lynanne at July 11, 2006 08:04 PM