Yet another pupil taken and passed Theory which means another driving test and another pupil gone. Losing count on tests booked, may be good for my reputation but not for my pocket.

Just finished 20 hours with the pupil from hell. Dad, who apparently left home, (not surprised) booked and paid for 20 hours.  Her first words were along the lines of-: "I don't want to *** be here and I'm telling you now no *******one makes me do what I don't ******** want."
However she had to do the lessons because ****dad and his evil ***** girlfriend  would kill her.
Didn't have dads address or phone number so couldn't return the money and run, so we wasted  two hours every week on an estate, nearly got her onto the roads once but at the end of the street both feet came off the peddles and with the car still moving she folded her arms. "Told you I wasn't ********** doing it"
Five minutes before the end of the last lesson had to dual her because she took off her seat belt  and was getting out of the car before making it safe. 
Why do parents do this to 17 year old girls? My grand daughter said at 17 she wasn't learning to drive. At 21 she realised she had to, put her mind to it and soon passed, now she's considering taking a trailer test so she can tow her horse box.
Had a similar problem with another girl, first 10 paid for hours she made it clear she didn't want to be here. Next ten mum came along to make her behave. Fortunately the mum is an acquaintance  so after daughter slammed out of the car on the last lesson I was able to persuade mum to go away and think about it. it. She hasn't had a lesson since but they bought her her own car which has never been driven.  

Want advise on how to pass your driving test? Fantastic short film on my Facebook page, instructions on what not to do with your cigarette  during your test! At the beginning see if you can guess which of the two gangsters is the examiner. Not a joke a serious informative film, or it was then!!!!
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Just read in an Instructor magazine how one particular driving school has lots of pupils because the pupil is allowed to choose the day and time of their lesson. Apparently all other driving schools don't allow this and the instructor tells the pupil when the next lesson is.
I must be thick because I 'm missing something somewhere. My pupils tell ME when they're available and not the other way round.
Would be interesting there hear others views on thsi.

Busy week coming up. 10 hours work, holiday somewhere hot tempting. Everyone back at college and don't know when available.

My day with the Motorway police. Conclusion. We need more.

I would like to thanks Chadderton Traffic Unit for giving me this opportunity to spend a shift with them, I think on the whole I kept quiet and behaved myself. Simon my driver, worked not stop from 7am until 2.30pm with a few minutes break in a police waiting area for a car which was thought to be coming our way.  After leaving me at 2.30 he was faced with a couple of hours of paper work. The motorway police have always been ‘just there’ never at the right time. But after my shift with Simon who also kept me informed of what and why, while managing to listen to and respond to constant messages on the radio I was very impressed in his professionalism. Now I know we all complain there are not enough police about, I agree, we were constantly dashing from one incident to another, some serious some not. This isn’t any reflection on Simon he can only be watching one way, but I saw people on phones and as he explained had there been two coppers in the car the other one who saw the offence could book them. Now we’re back to the same old - same old, we don’t have enough police and after seeing the way people drive with a police presences I’m sure accidents would be a lot lower because people would drive slower, pay more attentions to what is happening around them instead of being distracted by their precious mobiles and whatever else it is that distracts them.

My day with the Motorway Police 

Part 4

Little more cruising and coming back through Oldham on the hard shoulder a gentleman is running back to his car complete with caravan so we stopped and discovered he was on the hard shoulder because he had run back to see if his mate was still following him. It gets better now, he could have been booked for being a pedestrian on the hard shoulder, no tail lights on the caravan, registration on caravan different to the one on the car. But he managed to top all that by not being insured to drive the car, he was driving it because his boss told him to. He was actually working for a circus and it looked as if all the clowns had come to town on the same day. It took a full hour from seeing him running to getting the vehicle and caravan towed away.

On the whole it was a most informative day not to mention entertaining for some of the excuses people came up with as to why they shouldn’t be booked. I think what I get from this more than anything else is we need more police, throughout the whole day we were a very visible presence and with those few exceptions the more we were seen the more people didn’t break the law, and if the police ever want someone to ride around in a marked police car just as deterrent I’ve already volunteered. There is just no comparison whatsoever in the actions of drivers I see from my Green School of Motoring car and what I saw from a marked police car.