I passed!

Yesterday was the day of my Texas driving test. Another frustrating but interesting day. I turned up at 6:30am because Em had told me the car park filled up quickly and the queue would be enormous. However there were only about 30 people in the queue by the time that the test centre opened. While we were waiting outside we were entertained by people practising their parallel parking, with one driver reverse parking into the space instead of parallel parking. The first hurdle was a women who asked what we were there for and what documents that we had. My passport and visa were fine, but I was told that I needed a recent letter from Ems employer. Nowhere on the website did it say that I needed that. So I had to drive home and ask if Em could organise a letter quickly so I could try again. After a couple of hours, I picked up the letter from Ems work and headed back to the test centre with dread that the queue would now be enormous. I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of a queue. The best quote of today was when I was filling my application, I overheard a man from Louisiana saying to the women at the front desk, "This ain't our first rodeo" when he was being told what to do by her. After the form filling, I stood in another queue to check all my documents and pay before sitting at a computer for the first of the test. You can skip questions and come back to them later and I felt a little cheated that I had skipped a few and the computer had ended my test saying I had passed at 91%. I'm sure if it had let me go back I could have improved on that :) More queuing. The next available driving test was at 2:30 so I decided to come back rather than wait. The driving test went really quickly and I didn't have to do an emergency stop or reverse, so Em felt hard done by. Anyway I am now a proper Texan with my driving license. In the evening we went to the Gingerman pub in Rice to celebrate with a few beers.