Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
I wasn't all that favourably impressed when I went to get my first driving license in the US.
Me: "Do you have a booklet or a website that can tell me what the traffic laws are in this state?"
Lady behind the counter: "Oh, we don't have anything like that."
Me: "Then how am I supposed to learn what the laws are?"
LBtC: "Well, most people seem to just make it up as they go along. Just be sure to give the right answers on the test, and you'll be fine!"
Me: "Do you have a booklet or a website that can tell me what the traffic laws are in this state?"
Lady behind the counter: "Oh, we don't have anything like that."
Me: "Then how am I supposed to learn what the laws are?"
LBtC: "Well, most people seem to just make it up as they go along. Just be sure to give the right answers on the test, and you'll be fine!"
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Dave's not here, man!AmriloJim wrote:Looks like Connie just remembered a Prius engagement.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Dave's glad he drives a somewhat modern vehicle.jwhouk wrote:Dave's not here, man!AmriloJim wrote:Looks like Connie just remembered a Prius engagement.
If he was driving an old Geo Prizm, he's sure he'd already have received an expensive ticket... for driving while diffracted.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Georgia requires an eye test every time, and, once you're sixty, renewal is every five years, vs every ten.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
I liked my old Prizm, but it was hard to accelerate away from other cars. The red shifter light was burned out.Dave wrote:Dave's glad he drives a somewhat modern vehicle.
If he was driving an old Geo Prizm, he's sure he'd already have received an expensive ticket... for driving while diffracted.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Now that is criminal carelessness.Catawampus wrote:I wasn't all that favourably impressed when I went to get my first driving license in the US.
Me: "Do you have a booklet or a website that can tell me what the traffic laws are in this state?"
Lady behind the counter: "Oh, we don't have anything like that."
Me: "Then how am I supposed to learn what the laws are?"
LBtC: "Well, most people seem to just make it up as they go along. Just be sure to give the right answers on the test, and you'll be fine!"
Or a lightly disguised refusal to do her job.
In this state, the basic license is every five years (used to be four years) and once you're over 60, the examiner can arbitrarily shift you to every two years, then to every year - no appeal. As I noted previously, the examiner can also require you to take a driving test any time you go in for renewal - again, no appeal. I've not heard that the examiner can require you to take the written, but it wouldn't surprise me.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Georgia requires an eye test every time, and, once you're sixty, renewal is every five years, vs every ten.
If they give you a restricted license - say automatic transmissions only - for any reason, it is very nearly impossible to get that restriction removed . . . figure you're going to have to get a lawyer and sue DoL. And the examiner can demand you take a restriction on a vast array of pretexts any time you renew . . . they wanted to give me an automatic-transmission-only for a broken wrist, two weeks before the end of treatment.
I didn't take it . . . I let the license lapse, then renewed after the end of treatment. I wasn't driving much anyway, so it didn't matter.
CDL drivers have to renew -with a physical exam!- every two years. (That saved my dad's life . . . the doctor found an aortic aneurysm –which is mostly likely instantly fatal!- during the exam.)
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Yeouch. That's one of those things that if they already have you on the operating table and your chest opened up when it ruptures, you MIGHT survive.CDL drivers have to renew -with a physical exam!- every two years. (That saved my dad's life . . . the doctor found an aortic aneurysm –which is mostly likely instantly fatal!- during the exam.)
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
I'm sorry - i suspect you meant "opened up" ... but i had flashes of both "Alien" and Carpenter's "The Thing".Warrl wrote:Yeouch. That's one of those things that if they already have you on the operating table and your chest opens up when it ruptures, you MIGHT survive.CDL drivers have to renew -with a physical exam!- every two years. (That saved my dad's life . . . the doctor found an aortic aneurysm –which is mostly likely instantly fatal!- during the exam.)
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Unfortunately that seems to be LEO's take on bicycle laws in my state.Catawampus wrote:LBtC: "Well, most people seem to just make it up as they go along. Just be sure to give the right answers on the test, and you'll be fine!"
I ride my bike to ride my bike, and sometimes it takes me where I need to go.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
Most states these days.Opus the Poet wrote:Unfortunately that seems to be LEO's take on bicycle laws in my state.Catawampus wrote:LBtC: "Well, most people seem to just make it up as they go along. Just be sure to give the right answers on the test, and you'll be fine!"
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
oops... heh... will correct in a moment.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I'm sorry - i suspect you meant "opened up" ... but i had flashes of both "Alien" and Carpenter's "The Thing".Warrl wrote:Yeouch. That's one of those things that if they already have you on the operating table and your chest opens up when it ruptures, you MIGHT survive.CDL drivers have to renew -with a physical exam!- every two years. (That saved my dad's life . . . the doctor found an aortic aneurysm –which is mostly likely instantly fatal!- during the exam.)
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
FreeFlier, that needs to be mandatory in every state.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
I believe the CDL exams already are.Gyrrakavian wrote:FreeFlier, that needs to be mandatory in every state.
The eye exam should be, certainly.
However, I have severe problems with the examiner/counterperson being allowed the final authority to make someone's like hell with no reason, no standards and no appeal.
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Re: Be Sure to See Me 2016-10-06
<--- This is not the only dude I love, but this is a dude I love.Dave wrote:[... for driving while diffracted.
I'll take this Illustrative Opportunity to point out that all the things I agree with Dave on, specifically, (and I presume), come from Gwen's influence upon him. (I know I'm right, and stubbornly refuse to accept any dissenting opinions...)
Dude,
don't even respond here,
but go make some unscheduled acknowledgment out of my seeing through your otherwise mundane existence.
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