i had to retake my drivers test when i moved from illinois to arizona so i didn't take it seriously because i had ALREADY HAD a drivers license and been driving for years. i drove so poorly and recklessly (just how i drive i guess) without trying to be different at all, and at the end she yelled i must be CRAZY to pass you today but here you go and for the first moment i felt scared - like whoa, maybe this WASN'T in the bag?? ha ha. that pancake looks INCREDIBLEEEEEE
I love this and fear I would have a similar experience if I ever decide to get my NY licence.been here 8 years and manage to get away with driving occasionally using my UK one.
But I am confused…why try to pass the test when you are leaving NY?
This is a good question! We initially hired cars on our irish licences but youre not meant to drive on a foreign licence if youre resident. David got his licnce and we have a few trips coming up and I absolutely hate not being able to drive!!!
Oh I see! I’m in the same position but just drive anyway, admittedly not often and only out of state, mainly because I can’t face the hellhole that is the DMV!
Hahaha I was laughing out loud as I read this!!! I kept my Colorado license (got it in college) for literally YEARS until covid when it was about to finally expire and my parents had sold their house so I could no longer have it mailed to them... thankfully they'd suspended testing so I didn't have to re-test to get my NY one :D
I have my own one-way Irish driving experiences that I will share with you over coffee soon! Mainly involving sheep and the crazy "roads" of Kilfenora.
I was at the beginning of drivers education in the late sixties. If you took and passed a course in high school (not during the regular school day but at 7:00 while classes started at 8:15 which required an earlier wake-up to catch one of three busses to get there early) you got a paper which allowed you not to take the written test at the DMV, you could go straight to the practical test. So, I get my paper after passing the course and I’m all excited to get my license. I go home and ask my mom if we can go and take the practical and she says “do you have a car?” I say no. So then she says “then you don’t need a drivers license” in the tone that said no more questions. So I waited two years and got my license to drive trucks and jeeps in the army. PS: I love the way that you spell “curb” as “kerb” in the Irish way. So neat to read. Have a great weekend!
(1) American drivers’ licences are notoriously difficult to convert into Irish ones and there was only a cross-party report a week or two ago about how the conversion process is needlessly longwinded
(2) you know you can just renew your Irish licence within five years of its last expiry?
I renewed it Saturday of the August bank holiday in Roscommon. I was the last appointment of the day and said sugar i forgot my id. Not a problem...he also used my photo from 10 years avo God bless him.
I ended up losing that licence (!!) and had to replace again in Dublin in Feb. She went to take my picture and I said no use the one from 10 years ago. She said there's just no way that happened in Roscommon..it's not physically possible on the system. (This is starting to sound like a ghost story..a terrible ghost story).
Also why can americans convert licences at all?!?! Im out here bussing out to Queens to take the test from scratch!!
i had to retake my drivers test when i moved from illinois to arizona so i didn't take it seriously because i had ALREADY HAD a drivers license and been driving for years. i drove so poorly and recklessly (just how i drive i guess) without trying to be different at all, and at the end she yelled i must be CRAZY to pass you today but here you go and for the first moment i felt scared - like whoa, maybe this WASN'T in the bag?? ha ha. that pancake looks INCREDIBLEEEEEE
My guy wasn't feeling crazy at all 😂 I had three 'automatic fails' which, after the first one ...why did he keep counting?!?!!
I love this and fear I would have a similar experience if I ever decide to get my NY licence.been here 8 years and manage to get away with driving occasionally using my UK one.
But I am confused…why try to pass the test when you are leaving NY?
This is a good question! We initially hired cars on our irish licences but youre not meant to drive on a foreign licence if youre resident. David got his licnce and we have a few trips coming up and I absolutely hate not being able to drive!!!
Oh I see! I’m in the same position but just drive anyway, admittedly not often and only out of state, mainly because I can’t face the hellhole that is the DMV!
Hahaha I was laughing out loud as I read this!!! I kept my Colorado license (got it in college) for literally YEARS until covid when it was about to finally expire and my parents had sold their house so I could no longer have it mailed to them... thankfully they'd suspended testing so I didn't have to re-test to get my NY one :D
I have my own one-way Irish driving experiences that I will share with you over coffee soon! Mainly involving sheep and the crazy "roads" of Kilfenora.
who wants to drive in NYC anyway! you're meant for the wide-open spacessss
I was at the beginning of drivers education in the late sixties. If you took and passed a course in high school (not during the regular school day but at 7:00 while classes started at 8:15 which required an earlier wake-up to catch one of three busses to get there early) you got a paper which allowed you not to take the written test at the DMV, you could go straight to the practical test. So, I get my paper after passing the course and I’m all excited to get my license. I go home and ask my mom if we can go and take the practical and she says “do you have a car?” I say no. So then she says “then you don’t need a drivers license” in the tone that said no more questions. So I waited two years and got my license to drive trucks and jeeps in the army. PS: I love the way that you spell “curb” as “kerb” in the Irish way. So neat to read. Have a great weekend!
Wait, so it's easier to get your Irish driver's license when it's Christmas? Filing that information away for a future date. 😄
Now that you’ve got the copy out of it…
(1) American drivers’ licences are notoriously difficult to convert into Irish ones and there was only a cross-party report a week or two ago about how the conversion process is needlessly longwinded
(2) you know you can just renew your Irish licence within five years of its last expiry?
…it’s now ten years. Even if your last licence had expired in autumn 2016 you could just rock up and renew it no questions asked
I renewed it Saturday of the August bank holiday in Roscommon. I was the last appointment of the day and said sugar i forgot my id. Not a problem...he also used my photo from 10 years avo God bless him.
I ended up losing that licence (!!) and had to replace again in Dublin in Feb. She went to take my picture and I said no use the one from 10 years ago. She said there's just no way that happened in Roscommon..it's not physically possible on the system. (This is starting to sound like a ghost story..a terrible ghost story).
Also why can americans convert licences at all?!?! Im out here bussing out to Queens to take the test from scratch!!