AHHHH!!! Today I had to take a 4 hour class online to get my permit, and didn't realize I could take the ACTUAL learner's permit test online! So I took it, and PASSED! Tomorrow morning my mom and I are going to go pick it up!

STAY OFF THE ROADS >: DD

Oh god we're all dead.

:) GOOD WORK! :P

Woo hoo! :D
I will stay off the road. *warns mom about a potential psycho driver* :P

yayy congrats!! :party:

thank goodness i dont live in florida :P

XDDDD congrats!

You can get a drivers permit in 4 hours just by taking a test online? woah...
Well good for you, congrats :D

YOU GUYS ARE EVIL!

That's why I <3 you all sooo much <33

Yes, please stay off the roads, they're a dangerous place now that I'm on them. >: DDDDD

*lives in Florida* I'm scerred...

You can get a drivers permit in 4 hours just by taking a test online? woah...

Isn't Florida wonderful? :P

YOU GUYS ARE EVIL!

That's why I <3 you all sooo much <33

Yes, please stay off the roads, they're a dangerous place now that I'm on them. >: DDDDD
Evil is good. :hehe:

Matt, a kid in my class has a brother who just started to drive, and on his AIM subprofile thingy he said "Please tell your parents to be EXTRA CAREFUL on the roads cuz my bro just got his liscense" His brother's names is Mike, interesting enough. :P

Hahahaha weird girl and kicker :p Watch out for a girl in a pink VW! Haha.. well, I'm getting that when I'm 16. BUT HEY, WATCH OUT. ;p

Thats cool Sarah, I was the most happy in my whole life when I went to get my permit. When I came back from my test I had a brand new Ninja motorcycle waiting in my living room, i didnt even know I could ride a motorcycle with just a permit. But its been down hill ever since.

Congratulations :wolf: Driving is great, you don't have to bribe people to take you places. Of course, until you get a car, you have to beg them to borrow theirs :rolleyes:

*lives faaarr away from Florida* :hehe:

CONGRATs!!! xD

Haha, thanks guys, I feel teh lurve <3

Congrats Sarah :D

Good thing I live far far away from Florida

Have fun driving!

wow, I'm not coming to visit anytime soon :D
Seriously, congratulations - are you really the same young girl I saw last year? I can't imagine you driving a car LOL.

Yay! Way to go!
*Suddenly realizes something*
Now I'm not the scariest driver in the US!!! :crying:
*sniff sniff*
Oh well...I'll be the scariest driver in NJ....which is 4 hours away by plane from Florida...:D

STAY OFF THE ROADS >: DD

Or rather, stay off the sidewalk? :D Just kidding! ;)

I can't even begin to remember how many people said that to me when I recieved my permit... :)

YEAH! That's so exciting! I'm taking the test for my license in a few days! *bites nails* Now THAT'S scary because then mom and dad won't be there to yank the wheel the right way! He he he...

Yay! Way to go!
*Suddenly realizes something*
Now I'm not the scariest driver in the US!!! :crying:
*sniff sniff*
Oh well...I'll be the scariest driver in NJ....which is 4 hours away by plane from Florida...:D

I'd be laughing if I wasn't an hour away from New Jersey :lol:

heh lefty should probably be scared now that I have my license :P

today was actually the first time I went out driving alone, it was much fun. too bad it was only into town and back, stupid eye doctor appointment :P

Congrads! lucky!!! the dmv won't let me take the test

What?! We can't get a permit 'till we're 17!

Well, good stuff!

Congratulations.

I can drive, but I hate driving. Actually I hate being in cars, trucks, vans, caravans, hummers, semi, portapotties.

Whoah, I didn't know you can get a permit online- I thought you had to do like a physical test. :confusion Ah well, shows what I know! :lol:
Congrats Sarah...I'm very very glad that I don't live in Florida. (Just kidding...or not? :hehe: )

You guys. :p All seem so confident in me! [tear] I WON'T LET YOU DOWN!

.. except that's a lie [cough]

yay... I do not drive so I do not have to worry about Sarah on the roads :P

yay... I do not drive so I do not have to worry about Sarah on the roads :PWhich one of us? There seems to be two very scary drivers named Sarah lurkering around here. :D

Now that I'm thinking about it...I still have to go reset up(I sorta messed up the time when I was supposed to take it:buckt: ) my test for my license now that I'm 17....ah...the joy of driving without need of an adult in the car! :D :D :D
*scurries off*

Whoah, I didn't know you can get a permit online- I thought you had to do like a physical test.
You make it sound like you have to lift weights or something. hehe. You just have to take a written test. It would be stupid to take a practical test getting your permit because you wouldn't know anything about driving!
17 is late! I got mine at 15 but now you have to be 15 and a half. You can get a license at 16 but I think 17 is probably safer. It freaks me out knowing that some of my peers are legally on the road. *shudder*

I get my permit in a year. Maybe I'll drive down and see you and we'll go on a crazy ramapge through Florida.. *invisions crazy Sarah and Kathleen driving through Disney World* Congratulations!

I get my permit in a year. Maybe I'll drive down and see you and we'll go on a crazy ramapge through Florida.. *invisions crazy Sarah and Kathleen driving through Disney World* Congratulations!
lol i can hear it now... "OMG! Mickey! Watch out!" n cinderella goes: "WHAT THE..? aaaaah! run!"

won't be able to drive for a while i assume...

thank goodness i dont live in florida :P

XDDDD congrats!

you really know how to put it :P

17 is late! I got mine at 15 but now you have to be 15 and a half. You can get a license at 16 but I think 17 is probably safer.

in holland you have to be 18 to take lessons and 17 to get the test. Without test you can't take lessons and cannot get your driving licenses. Although the test is only counting for 6 months i believe, so not many people get the test allready and then start taking lessons. I'm fine with those ages. Many people that are even 16 are too immature to drive a whole car, they are allready dangerous with a scooter! (16 is legal age for scooter driving license) So i agree with you about the age thing :) (although numbers are not the same, but you get my point!)

Love,
Mirna

I got my permit at 16 (earliest I was allowed to; got it on my birthday) and had my license 10 months later. :P

heh lefty should probably be scared now that I have my license :P
Maybe if you actually had a car :P

Oh wait....so a permit isnt a license? A permit means you are allowed to learn to drive and then you still need to do something else to get the actual license, that'd make a lot more sense to me because i really dont understand how someone can be allowed to drive just by taking a test online...never having been behind the wheel of a car before!?

Yeah we take a test to get a learner's permit... it's pretty basic things about driving. So while we have the permit, we're allowed to drive if a licensed driver is in the car, which is how we learn :D Then we'll take the road test to get a license.

my mom and sister take me driving in empty parking lots sometimes.. even though i can only get my permit in a year. i loove driving- even though it's somewhat frightening when you start out, the idea of not having to ask for a ride when i want to go somewhere is very exciting :P

i really don't understand those people that wait FOREVER to get their license.. why wouldn't you want to be independant when it comes to transportation?!

Yeah we take a test to get a learner's permit... it's pretty basic things about driving. So while we have the permit, we're allowed to drive if a licensed driver is in the car, which is how we learn :D Then we'll take the road test to get a license.



oooooooooh, ok thats a relief :lol:
I knew its a lot easier to get on the road in America than over here, but that seemed shocking...and it was because i misunderstood heh

Here you can get your provisional license when you are 17, its like £21 but you dont need to take a test or anything to get it. Once you have that you can start taking lessons (about £15 an hour), then you have to take and pass a theory (written) test (£20), then you take the practical test (£40) to get the actual license, tis a very long and expensive process!!

yeah it's way too cheap/easy to get a license over here. It scares me to think that I got my license at 16, and driver's ed cost me $3 to take. Now it's free :P

Driver's ed is free???? It cost $360 for me to take it, with another company it would've been even more. I've always heard Americans were insane drivers, I can see why with what some of you are saying :P
And I don't think I've said this yet, but congrats Sarah :P If you didn't pass I think you'd have to be prodded with pointy objects, because it's the easiest test ever to pass :P

Driver's ed is free???? It cost $360 for me to take it, with another company it would've been even more. I've always heard Americans were insane drivers, I can see why with what some of you are saying :P
And I don't think I've said this yet, but congrats Sarah :P If you didn't pass I think you'd have to be prodded with pointy objects, because it's the easiest test ever to pass :P
i heard that americans think we drive too fast... :rolleyes: although, they did wanna change the speed limit of some of our highways to 140kmph... *crazy*

is it true that u can actually DRIVE at age 16 in california?

Maybe if you actually had a car :P
hey, I have use of my brother's car while he's at work (yay for him having a company vehicle :P), although now my parents are saying they don't want me driving it alone until it gets fixed... apparently the front end is all kinds of screwed up (I guess it needs a CV joint, control arm, and a bunch of other stuff, and the place my brother always goes to wanted $700 to fix it all- and it's a 1988 car he paid like $2400 for :P)

I believe driver's ed cost me $225 (and it would be $325 for people that don't live in my school district if they took it there). every other summer school course is $3, though :P

i heard that americans think we drive too fast... :rolleyes: although, they did wanna change the speed limit of some of our highways to 140kmph... *crazy*

is it true that u can actually DRIVE at age 16 in california?
yeppers, i can have my license in a little less than two years! whoo!! :)

...Many people that are even 16 are too immature to drive a whole car, ...
Let them drive half a car maybe? ;)

I don't know how you can learn to drive just by clicking and typing up words...but if you say so...

You don't learn by clicking and typing, you just get the permission to learn ;)


I had to do it the old-fashioned way - I went to the DMV. puh :P

I think my dad is going to teach me how to drive... you have to get a bunch of papers signed and you have to drive X amount of hours... I do not know if I would trust myself though... because I do not think I could learn everything from just my dad :P

That's why I took driver's ed :lol:

My mom didn't want to teach me, and I didn't want my dad teaching me. I was kind of stuck :P

I would need a lot of practice of just focusing on driving.. I get distracted really easy.

"Oh look! Squirrel! **CRASH**"

I ran over a squirrel once, it was kind of gross.

I also hit a deer a week before my [first] road test. How great I felt after that!

My grandmother hit a bird once. It was really strange because we were just driving along and SMACK... we hit a sparrow :( it got caught in the windsheild wippers... it was sad. I think it was just trying to cross the street at too low of an altitude.

^aww poor animals :sad: i HATE seeing something lying [dead] on the side of the road.. or in the middle.. a lot of the times its just a trash bag but it still makes me sad :hehe:

That stinks that some have to buy drivers ed. For us, it's a course that is automatically included in out 10th grade curiculum, so bam you automatically take it 10th grade year.

In germany, it costs [I believe] $1500-$2000. Jeeze.

here it is like $500... bleh

Here it's free at school! Woo!

y'know, I was actually surprised at how much technology the NYS DMV uses... I didn't give them enough credit :P

I was able to schedule my road test online, and when I actually took it, the guy checked me off his list or something using the PDA he had, then when i was done, he hit some buttons and printed out my temporary license with the things I got points taken off for right there in the car. but I had to go to the DMV to get my permit :P but that's actually probably a good thing, because they obsessively check things then (you need absolute proof of your identity) and you need to pay for it then, so when you get your license they can do everything else they need to do right in the car. (they don't need to check your identity or anything and you don't need to pay any fees at that point)