Random Stories about Driving Instructors Reveal Their Worst And Low-Key Hilarious Student Dri (16 items)

• (#1) Turn Signal Trouble

  From Redditor /u/Funnycakes98:

  My instructor said that a girl was turning into and out of lanes wildly, trying to turn off the turn signal.
• (#2) An Untimely Death

  From Redditor /u/rickthedairyman:

  My uncle frequently tells the story of the time his driving instructor died during his first lesson, and he was given some award from the town for driving the body to the hospital.
• (#3) Lights! Yellow! Action!

  From Redditor /u/Ahhmedical:

  She was approaching a yellow light going the speed limit of 50 kph. She saw her chance to strike and makes a jump for the light going 15 kph over the [speed] limit and catching the yellow light. While doing this, she yells at the instructor, "We can make it!" Like she came from Top Gun training and zooms through. Only to find out she didn't pass when she completed the course.
• (#4) Veering Off Course

  From Redditor /u/frankoftank:

  She would just drive without correcting her steering at all, and would start to go off the street unless my mom reached over and corrected the wheel for her. No matter what my mom did or said, she would constantly just drift off the road. So my mom took her out to an old, wide-open dirt road where she could just let the lady drive and see how far off the road she would go before she realized what she was doing.

  The lady just drifted off the road a good 20 feet and would have kept going into the fields if my mom hadn't stopped the car and asked her, "Look where we are. Look where the road is. What the f*ck are you doing?"

  After that, my mom finally gave up on her and told her husband and son that she cannot drive a vehicle, and she cannot learn how to drive a vehicle. Only student my mom ever gave up on.
• (#5) Follow The Banana

  From Redditor /u/lions_n_stuff:

  I got into the car for one of my first lessons, and there was plastic fruit taped to the dashboard. My instructor saw me glance at them, and it was like the floodgates opened and all those months of pent-up frustration just came pouring out.

  Apparently he had been teaching this middle-aged woman for almost a year at that point. She kept failing the test, once because she tried to turn left onto a roundabout. Another time she was told to drive towards a certain town, so she stopped in the middle of the road to carefully read the sign in front of her. I was like, "Why not just tell her to turn left, if you already know she's kinda incompetent?" Well, she also had huge problems telling apart left and right.

  That week, my instructor had finally given up on debating the difference with her and taped his kid's toy fruit to the dash, so he could go, "Turn towards the grapes/banana, please," which seemed to work much better.
• (#6) Horse Crossing

  From Redditor /u/paipaicool:

  My driving instructor told me once he convinced a girl that at an equestrian crossing, the horse presses the button with its nose.
• (#7) 'Pokémon Go' Is Important Business

  From Redditor /u/UnknownLegend97:

  My instructor was telling me about this one guy who he assumed had ADHD or something, who had already passed his test years ago, but wasn't confident on the roads and wanted extra lessons. So one day they're on the motorway, and the guy pulls out his phone and starts playing Pokémon Go. My instructor was just in disbelief.
• (#8) Driving Blind

  From Redditor /u/sorafan9393:

  My driving partner had been missing a lot of turns, and finally the instructor had to slam on his brake when she completely ignored a massive temporary stop sign, almost taking out an elderly woman in the process. Turns out my partner had 20/200 vision, but her glasses were broken, and she "hadn't had time to get them replaced" yet. White-knuckled our way through the rest of the month.
• (#9) Scary Smells 

  From Redditor /u/TheCaptainCog:

  Apparently it was this poor kid's first time on the highway. He was extremely nervous, but the instructor tried to keep him calm and say it would be fine. They go onto the highway and my instructor said she began to smell something really bad. She thought that maybe he had some nervous gas or something. No big deal.

  After a while the smell should have dissipated, but instead became stronger and more concentrated. She opened the window on the highway, trying not to gag the whole time. She couldn't figure out if it was sh*t or the car was broken or something, but the smell was hair-burning bad, she said.

  A bit after that, the smell did not go away, but she took the kid home. The smell was worse than ever, and she tried to figure out what it was. As the kid got out of the car, she noticed something on the back of his neck - poop. Liquid poop. And not only that, it was everywhere: on the seat, on his shirt, on the instructor's mat. Everywhere!

  It must have been some explosive sh*t, because it got onto his neck. His back was soaked from the poop and his pants looked like a kindergarten kid learning to paint. When he stood up, it pooled in the seat, in the mat, and it was bad. He asked if he could help, but she told him no, it was all right.
• (#10) Learning To Drive At 84

  From Redditor /u/ironmaven:

  My driving instructor told me of Edna.

  At 84 years old she was adamant that she wanted to learn to drive. After over 300 lessons the instructor, Bernie, still didn't think this woman could be trusted behind wheels by herself, and he would not in confidence lend his car for her driving test. He had his hand on the steering wheel most times since she would turn wherever she looked and often that was towards pedestrians.

  So does Edna give up? No. She purchased her own brand new car and took the driving test 13 times. She finally passed, then rear-ended a truck not a week later.
• (#11) Bird Mishandling

  From Redditor /u/cb0159:

  When I went to take my test, the instructor got in and commented on the car being clean. She was quite happy, because earlier in the day she was giving a test and felt something odd on her arm. They had hit a bird on the way to the exam and stuffed it in the center console with feathers sticking out. She told the examiner they were keeping it for dinner.
• (#12) Deadly Roundabouts

  From Redditor /u/Sir__Trashcan:

  Sarah was a special case; a more jumpy female would be hard to find. We spent an unprecedented 10 lessons just in the car park, as she could not master first gear or more worryingly, steering. I imagine her parents thought I was running some very dodgy outfit, 10 hours at £25 a pop to be in a car park; however, they never said anything.

  We did finally graduate to the roads. Sarah did not really believe in speed limits. She wasn't overly quick or slow - she just had one speed limit: 35 mph. But I digress. We were approaching a very quiet roundabout. We pulled in to the side of the road (using all the correct procedures). And I went over the theory of roundabouts using a helpful clock diagram.

  Now Sarah is one of those wonderful people in life who will nod and say they understand what you are telling them, when in fact they have no bloody clue what you are on about. Sarah proceeds to nod her head and say that she understood. Okay, great, we can get under way. We approach the roundabout. I tell her that I would like her to turn right at the roundabout, an instruction that I thought was as clear as day. It was clear, but possibly not specific enough. Sarah proceeds to turn right at the roundabout, into oncoming traffic.

  Sarah didn't have time for procedure, apparently. I swear as a car is heading for us. It swerves out of the way; great stuff we aren't dead. Sarah’s reactions were hardly lightning fast. Or really appropriate reactions at all. As the car was coming towards us, she proceeded to take her hands on the wheel, as though a masked gunman had told her to "stick 'em up." She closed her eyes and let out a particularly piercing scream, the likes of which I imagined a feline would emit if their tail was trodden on.

  Much blaring of horns ensued, switching of seats, apologies in the form of hand waving, and we were on our way. Sarah had lost her car driving privileges for the day, while I waited for my heart, which was apparently trying to free itself from its housing, to stop beating at approximately 6,000 bpm.
• (#13) Taking Instructions Too Literally

  From Redditor /u/PanicStil:

  My dad used to be a driving instructor. He once had a student who took the instruction to "drive straight over the roundabout" literally. The student attempted to mount the large, curbed roundabout before my dad grabbed the wheel to correct him.
• (#14) Flipping Out

  From Redditor /u/PM_ME_YOUR_SNAPPLE:

  A former driving teacher told us a story about how a girl, first time driving, flipped the car on its back during the road practice with another student in the car in the back seat. The car was on a low-rise bridge. She hit the guard rail, and the car came crashing down and landed on its back. The first thing my driver instructor heard immediately after the crash was the kid in the back saying, "Well, I'm guessing I'm not driving today.”
• (#15) Asleep At The Wheel

  From Redditor /u/steerfromtherear:

  Not me personally, but a friend of mine is an instructor. As a rule you never take your eye off the pupil, but during a lesson something caught his eye on the side of the road. They were doing about 30 in a built-up area, and as he looked back at his pupil, she was completely asleep. Turned out she had narcolepsy and never told anyone. Lesson over.
• (#16) A Bad Catch

  From Redditor /u/Landbiscuits:

  At a rest stop, [the instructor] tossed the keys to the student driver, who missed the catch. The car keys fell down a storm drain. They then spent the next half an hour trying to fish them out with a set of golf clubs.

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