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All rage no road: stories of driver’s licence failure

by Leo Shanahan

31 Dec 05:55am

Filed under: Driving, Licences, New Years Resolutions, Youth

43 comments

Lying about having epilepsy was when I hit rock bottom on the excuses spectrum.

Rare footage of Leo's driving test

But when faced with the perfectly reasonable question from a Canberra cabbie who had picked me up twice in a day, as to why a seemingly healthy 27 year old did not just drive himself, I blanked and then came up with: “well I have epilepsy you see, stops you driving.”

Firstly, apologies to any epileptics reading this for using your problem as an excuse to escape the embarrassment of not having my driver’s licence, as well as using possibly factually inaccurate information about epilepsy impeding your ability to drive (a friend with epilepsy just mentioned this once so I especially apologise to him).

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I got mine at 17 says:

10:03am | 07/01/11

Asan ex short time taxi driver (N owonder with the problems we have driving) an accountant had worked out he was better of finacially without a car. That may be so, but i wonder if he factured in his time delays etc spent waiting, and travelling by cabs and their… Read more »
Reg says:

09:18am | 03/01/11

We had a neighbour charged with being drunk in charge of a horse and not carrying regulation lighting. He didn’t know which way was home and he depended on the horse to get him there. Makes sense to me. Read more »

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