More Is Never Enough!

We all agree that driving tests could drive the candidate crazy. But candidates in India should be thankful to their stars because increasingly, countries are adding unconventional items to the list of skills to be tested. Malaysian system sometimes gives cars with poor brakes during the candidate’s test, and may ask the candidate to stop on a gradient. Singapore insists on taking the candidate on a highway, and suddenly asking the candidate to stop and change one of the wheels. If the time taken for this is more than a certain period, the candidate fails.

But what happened to one candidate in Clacton, Essex, in U.K. was an unscheduled item. After the candidate had completed successfully the three-point turning, and even done the looking into rear mirror regularly, the examiner took him into a highway. There, two armed robbers who had earlier robbed a post office and unsuccessfully tried to escape on a motorbike stopped them. They then dragged out the duo out of their Ford Fiesta and bolted with the vehicle. At the end of the ordeal, the candidate asked the examiner if he had passed the test. The cruel reply was, “No, because you haven’t shown adequate driver’s skills in the emergency!”

S.M.Singru