{"id":4905,"date":"2015-09-08T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.ingenie.com\/young-drivers-guide\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2019-05-01T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:22:07","slug":"why-i-got-p-plates-after-i-passed-my-driving-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingenie.com\/young-drivers-guide\/why-i-got-p-plates-after-i-passed-my-driving-test","title":{"rendered":"Why I got P-plates after I passed my driving test"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time I finally passed my driving test<\/a> I'd given up planning what would happen afterwards. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

So I hadn't really given all that much thought to whether I would have P-plates<\/a> or not. It seemed like something distant and unimportant - the very LEAST of my worries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Then I passed - surprise! I called my insurer and got my policy updated<\/a> - \"That'll be \u00a3150 Miss Clement-Hayes\" - so I could drive straight away. That same night, I took my car for its very first spin with me fully at the helm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

My first drive after I passed my test<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

While it went pretty OK, I was soooooo conscious of what people thought. When I was driving too slowly I was worried the people behind me just thought I was a 'typical woman driver' and I was giving my sisters a bad name.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On my way home, a 4x4 driver (obv) behind me decided they didn't want to wait as I pootled towards a junction. They shot up a little metre-long side road and tried to turn right fast to overtake me. As there were no cars approaching from the left on the main road, I pulled out ahead of them. And if I'd done it a wee bit slower, we would probably have crashed. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

I like to think the driver wouldn't have risked that ridiculous move if I'd had P-plates but I'm probably kidding myself. However, I would have felt better about the situation as they would have had fair warning not to make any false moves near me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Do yourself a favour<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

P-plates aren't for the benefit of other drivers. They aren't a warning for idiots to be less idiotic - you really can't expect that. You probably don't even want or need special treatment. P-plates just help you focus less on what other people are thinking of you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

That's very important as you do your first few drives alone, because it lets you keep your concentration 100% on the road, not on whether the driver behind is cursing your existance. Happily, a lot of your fellow road users aren't horrible, so making them aware you've just passed your test can't hurt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

No one ever said learning to drive would be easy but it can be easier!<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Still not sure if P-plates are for you?Check out my pros and cons of P-plates<\/a>.<\/h4><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time I finally passed my driving test I’d given up planning what would happen afterwards. So I hadn’t really given all that much thought to whether I would have P-plates or not. It seemed like something distant and unimportant – the very LEAST of my worries. Then I passed – surprise! I called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":4922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-to-drive","learning-to-drive"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n