Cookie Thread Act 2: Silksong

how many times have you taken it

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You canā€™t just ask someone that

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zero

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what happened the second time you tried to drive arete

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@May driving

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great question

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Itā€™s just. Itā€™s one thing to fail something because of some genuine flaw in my ability. That feels normal. I love losing mafia games. I hate it but you know what I mean. But when I fail over and over again and in the mandatory refresher in-between am repeatedly told my driving is perfectly fine, it feels completely out of my control. It doesnā€™t feel like thereā€™s anything to improve on, and so it doesnā€™t feel like thereā€™s any way to prevent the same outcome over and over and over again.

Doubly so when ā€œclear lack of experience and confidenceā€ is cited as a reason for my failure when I had been driving for significantly longer and significantly more often than most people taking the test, and when at least one instructor was explicitly misogynistic To Someone Else as soon as I turned my back to him. The reason they think I ā€œlack confidenceā€ is very clearly something completely out of my control. Iā€¦ suspect I would have had my license by now if they saw me as a guy.

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Are you able to pick another driving instructorr?

I would feel so much better about failing if I thought I failed because I was a bad driver! But even people whose egos were clearly tied up in proving as much (e.g. instructor guy) always cited ā€œattitude problemā€ ā€œlack of confidenceā€ first! Bitch!

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There is only one major driving school in the area. Going directly through the DMV was what I did the first time, but the test is significantly more difficult if you do that, and thatā€™s where I got the misogynist guy

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My immedaite emotional reaction to someone saying I have an attitude problem is proving them right

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My dad had to get me to stop arguing with attitude problem guy and I was like ā€œis he really taking that guyā€™s sideā€ and as soon as the guy walked off my dad started complaining about him as well he just saw the futility of argument there

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Oh also he was like ā€œclearly you donā€™t practice drivingā€ and I was like I drive 30 minutes to school every day and he was like well thatā€™s the same roads so it doesnā€™t count and I was like there are like five different routes I can take on a variety of roads itā€™s not and he was like well youā€™re not Trying To Practice so itā€™s not practice. Go drive aimlessly around for an hour a day

Youā€™ll recall that driving is torture so I absolutely cannot do that

slow as heck roads
most of driving is just from one neighbourhood to another
highways usually just end up mostly empty

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I want my license so I can drive to school every day. I already do this every single day. Please explain to me how driving to school every day is not sufficient practice to be licensed to drive to school every day

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I donā€™t try to practice chess I just have over 15 days 3 hours worth of play time in it (probably more for other accounts) and would absolutely destroy people who donā€™t have that amount of time

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How the fuck are you supposed to do this if your parents canā€™t spare hours and hours on end teaching you to drive also? Like mine could at the time but thatā€™s fucking. Ridiculous

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Itā€™s only illegal if your caught

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Litten

Do ypu have anything to inform us about?

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