One told me I was driving like a cunt, spent half of my pretest on the phone chatting and shouted at me when I asked him a question during his call.
My experience:
I had a lesson with an instructor who had terrible English.
[Obviously I changed instructor to someone better]
Threw in a complaint to the RSA claiming his English was terrible.
6 months after the complaint I got an email from the RSA forwarding the instructor’s emailed response to the complaint, which – surprise surprise – had completely broken English.
There was literally no comment from the RSA in any way.
The only option according to the blurb was to escalate the complaint to another organisation outside the RSA, which I couldn’t be bothered with.
What does that even mean?
While driving around with my instructor he asked me what I thought of a young lady on the footpath. I said she was grand and he told me to keep my eyes on the fucking road!
15 times in quick succession or on multiple occasions? While both are inappropriate, 1 is quite funny.
Had two shite instructors. Third times the charm.
First one said “il struggle to fit you in as I have plenty of college lads that take priority.” Had lessons at mad hours.
2nd one was a mean old bitch and would berate me so I called it quits after dealing with her.
3rd guy was fantastic and really decent. Got me through it.
You should enjoy your lessons. It shouldn’t be pain and suffering. You’re there to learn not to be abused.
My driving instructor use to say “two hands on the washing up liquid and let’s get ready to sausage roll!”. He never tried to fuck me though.
The lad who instructed me used to talk about some of his other students struggling and would constantly say “but of course they’re women” and he would occasionally throw in a “and they’re black”
Also told me he regularly falls asleep on motorways when he’s driving because he finds them monotonous lol
Maybe being a mentaller is a requirement to be an ADI
In fairness , the lad stopping to have a look at a couple fighting in a forecourt, the lad taking a fag break and the lad with a hangover and the lad who said “fucks sake” shouldn’t be lumped in with the creepy lads perving on young wans.
My driving tester forcibly hugged me after I passed. Very creepy and weird.
One of the Aviva instructors would regularly shout at me for minor mistakes. The other one asked forward and inappropriate questions about whether I had a boyfriend etc (I was 22, he was in his 60s).
If she had just said who her daddy was the first time …
Got my motorbike licence last year, you have to do a two day training course. The first instructor I went to told me after 10 minutes that two wheels aren’t for me. The lads in the motoireland sub convinced me to try another instructor, I did and I passed the two day course no problem and have been driving without incident ever since.
Of course I had no idea what I was doing but I was paying him to teach me!
Bloody hell…. “A driving instructor told a 28-year-old woman who was getting lessons in his car that she was “drop-dead gorgeous”, asked if she was single, and said “Who’s your daddy” 15 times, according to a formal complaint received by the Road Safety Authority (RSA).”
Had a friend who recently got their 10 basic lessons from an instructor who was in his 80s.
They said there was nothing wrong with him as a driving instructor he was professional and knew what he was doing. However it took 2 months to get their confirmation uploaded to the driving license agency because by his own admission he hadn’t a clue how to deal with computers and was waiting for his son to come back from a big long summer trip away to do it for him.
My male driving instructor in Galway was lovely. He was an older gentleman and I was heavily pregnant and he was so kind and helped calmed my anxiety.
>Last August, a complainant claimed an ADI had told her to imagine that she had two children in the back seat and, if she did not drive carefully, she would cause an accident and kill them.
Damn
>Another learner driver reported his ADI had been physically beating him, striking him on the thigh and the back of his head. He told the RSA he had been “too scared” to react and had completed about 30 lessons with this instructor.
Hahahahaha. 30 lessons?! And then he complains after all of them? Good god.
‘The Approved Driving Instructors Union is in the process of disbanding and becoming the Professional Driving Instructors Association.
A representative was therefore not in a position to comment, as “neither organisation really exists at this moment”.’
Jaysus
Another learner driver reported his ADI had been physically beating him, striking him on the thigh and the back of his head. He told the RSA he had been “too scared” to react and had completed about 30 lessons with this instructor.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I suppose he felt kind of stupid after the seventh time and had to double down
She should probably have been focusing on the road instead of counting how many times he used the phrase “who’s your daddy”. “Numerous times” would have been a satisfactory descriptor to use in the claim of alledged misconduct.
The instructor told the students mother her daughter was ‘worse than shite’. I can’t stop laughing at this
Was going over a humped back bridge during a lesson at 17, instructor says ‘now close your eyes going over this one’ needless to say my stomach fell out my arse as it was a very steep bridge and I didn’t close my eyes but he was having a right laugh while I was terrified 🤣
My family run a very successful driving school, 45 years, we were sitting around this evening discussing this, hilariously sad
If anyone has an issue with any instructor acting unprofessionally or inappropriately, go and fucking report it, they won’t do much on one complaint, but if a few people do, instructors can have their licences to teach revoked
Think if he said that to me the handbreak would end up in his anus…
I’ve told d story before but I fucked my first driving instructor out of the car headfirst and left him about half a hour away from where he had parked his car 😂😂😂😂
Driver: You should let me pass. Do you know who my daddy is?
Instructor: Who is your daddy?
Driver: I’m just saying, daddy won’t be happy if I don’t come home with a license.
Instructor: WHO IS YOUR DADDY?!
I feel bad now for having a decent instructor.
Hilarious article.
Who’s your daddy is an old as fuck expression here, not necessarily used as a sexual term.
When ppl say “Fuck me” they don’t mean it literally.
When I was learning to drive a good few years ago I couldn’t remember to scan my mirrors every 30 seconds so the instructor would thump me in my upper left arm if I forgot. I religiously scan my mirrors now.
PSA Driving instructors are demented. Or to put it another way, there’s a job for everyone. For the demented, there’s the job of driving instructor.
4 lessons in My instructor goes “here she is the guitar player” I never told him I played any instrument. He also placed his hand on my hand on the gear stick and it made me so uncomfortable I never went back.
I had one instructor who insisted on listening to Carly Simon on repeat and told me I would fail the test if I put down the windows. I was putting down the windows because he stank
Better than having a Desert Eagle shoved in your face I will say.
My instructor used to practice his karaoke songs in the car with me, Michael feckin Bublé.. He also was so lazy that when I just could not get the bite, he would just get it for me on dual controls leading me to believe I had mastered it. Only to realise I really hadn’t when I went out driving myself.
Had another guy who told me he teaches people who are better after only one lesson than me who was driving a good bit longer. When I started getting pissed off about it, he told me it was just reverse psychology to get me to be better… No joke, I kicked him out of my car a few blocks from my estate and told him to feck right off. I complained about him of course.
I’m hoping to start lessons soon, and I’m on the lookout for who to contact for lessons. I live close to a test route, so learners are always out, and I’m always looking at cars for phone no’s, etc.
Today, I went for a walk and saw a young lad taking a lesson, and the instructor practically hanging out the window staring at me….
Bit offputting, tbh I think I’ll go with the instructor I saw in his car alone a few minutes after who didn’t even look at me!
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Some people. Very poor regulation
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Was he her father?
Some of that is quite incredible.
He had driven “worse than shite”.
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
One told me I was driving like a cunt, spent half of my pretest on the phone chatting and shouted at me when I asked him a question during his call.
My experience:
I had a lesson with an instructor who had terrible English.
[Obviously I changed instructor to someone better]
Threw in a complaint to the RSA claiming his English was terrible.
6 months after the complaint I got an email from the RSA forwarding the instructor’s emailed response to the complaint, which – surprise surprise – had completely broken English.
There was literally no comment from the RSA in any way.
The only option according to the blurb was to escalate the complaint to another organisation outside the RSA, which I couldn’t be bothered with.
What does that even mean?
While driving around with my instructor he asked me what I thought of a young lady on the footpath. I said she was grand and he told me to keep my eyes on the fucking road!
15 times in quick succession or on multiple occasions? While both are inappropriate, 1 is quite funny.
Had two shite instructors. Third times the charm.
First one said “il struggle to fit you in as I have plenty of college lads that take priority.” Had lessons at mad hours.
2nd one was a mean old bitch and would berate me so I called it quits after dealing with her.
3rd guy was fantastic and really decent. Got me through it.
You should enjoy your lessons. It shouldn’t be pain and suffering. You’re there to learn not to be abused.
My driving instructor use to say “two hands on the washing up liquid and let’s get ready to sausage roll!”. He never tried to fuck me though.
The lad who instructed me used to talk about some of his other students struggling and would constantly say “but of course they’re women” and he would occasionally throw in a “and they’re black”
Also told me he regularly falls asleep on motorways when he’s driving because he finds them monotonous lol
Maybe being a mentaller is a requirement to be an ADI
In fairness , the lad stopping to have a look at a couple fighting in a forecourt, the lad taking a fag break and the lad with a hangover and the lad who said “fucks sake” shouldn’t be lumped in with the creepy lads perving on young wans.
My driving tester forcibly hugged me after I passed. Very creepy and weird.
One of the Aviva instructors would regularly shout at me for minor mistakes. The other one asked forward and inappropriate questions about whether I had a boyfriend etc (I was 22, he was in his 60s).
If she had just said who her daddy was the first time …
Got my motorbike licence last year, you have to do a two day training course. The first instructor I went to told me after 10 minutes that two wheels aren’t for me. The lads in the motoireland sub convinced me to try another instructor, I did and I passed the two day course no problem and have been driving without incident ever since.
Of course I had no idea what I was doing but I was paying him to teach me!
Bloody hell…. “A driving instructor told a 28-year-old woman who was getting lessons in his car that she was “drop-dead gorgeous”, asked if she was single, and said “Who’s your daddy” 15 times, according to a formal complaint received by the Road Safety Authority (RSA).”
Had a friend who recently got their 10 basic lessons from an instructor who was in his 80s.
They said there was nothing wrong with him as a driving instructor he was professional and knew what he was doing. However it took 2 months to get their confirmation uploaded to the driving license agency because by his own admission he hadn’t a clue how to deal with computers and was waiting for his son to come back from a big long summer trip away to do it for him.
My male driving instructor in Galway was lovely. He was an older gentleman and I was heavily pregnant and he was so kind and helped calmed my anxiety.
>Last August, a complainant claimed an ADI had told her to imagine that she had two children in the back seat and, if she did not drive carefully, she would cause an accident and kill them.
Damn
>Another learner driver reported his ADI had been physically beating him, striking him on the thigh and the back of his head. He told the RSA he had been “too scared” to react and had completed about 30 lessons with this instructor.
Hahahahaha. 30 lessons?! And then he complains after all of them? Good god.
‘The Approved Driving Instructors Union is in the process of disbanding and becoming the Professional Driving Instructors Association.
A representative was therefore not in a position to comment, as “neither organisation really exists at this moment”.’
Jaysus
Another learner driver reported his ADI had been physically beating him, striking him on the thigh and the back of his head. He told the RSA he had been “too scared” to react and had completed about 30 lessons with this instructor.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I suppose he felt kind of stupid after the seventh time and had to double down
She should probably have been focusing on the road instead of counting how many times he used the phrase “who’s your daddy”. “Numerous times” would have been a satisfactory descriptor to use in the claim of alledged misconduct.
The instructor told the students mother her daughter was ‘worse than shite’. I can’t stop laughing at this
Was going over a humped back bridge during a lesson at 17, instructor says ‘now close your eyes going over this one’ needless to say my stomach fell out my arse as it was a very steep bridge and I didn’t close my eyes but he was having a right laugh while I was terrified 🤣
My family run a very successful driving school, 45 years, we were sitting around this evening discussing this, hilariously sad
If anyone has an issue with any instructor acting unprofessionally or inappropriately, go and fucking report it, they won’t do much on one complaint, but if a few people do, instructors can have their licences to teach revoked
Think if he said that to me the handbreak would end up in his anus…
I’ve told d story before but I fucked my first driving instructor out of the car headfirst and left him about half a hour away from where he had parked his car 😂😂😂😂
Driver: You should let me pass. Do you know who my daddy is?
Instructor: Who is your daddy?
Driver: I’m just saying, daddy won’t be happy if I don’t come home with a license.
Instructor: WHO IS YOUR DADDY?!
I feel bad now for having a decent instructor.
Hilarious article.
Who’s your daddy is an old as fuck expression here, not necessarily used as a sexual term.
When ppl say “Fuck me” they don’t mean it literally.
[“am I that good”](https://youtu.be/nYHWb1r41Iw)
When I was learning to drive a good few years ago I couldn’t remember to scan my mirrors every 30 seconds so the instructor would thump me in my upper left arm if I forgot. I religiously scan my mirrors now.
PSA Driving instructors are demented. Or to put it another way, there’s a job for everyone. For the demented, there’s the job of driving instructor.
4 lessons in My instructor goes “here she is the guitar player” I never told him I played any instrument. He also placed his hand on my hand on the gear stick and it made me so uncomfortable I never went back.
I had one instructor who insisted on listening to Carly Simon on repeat and told me I would fail the test if I put down the windows. I was putting down the windows because he stank
Better than having a Desert Eagle shoved in your face I will say.
My instructor used to practice his karaoke songs in the car with me, Michael feckin Bublé.. He also was so lazy that when I just could not get the bite, he would just get it for me on dual controls leading me to believe I had mastered it. Only to realise I really hadn’t when I went out driving myself.
Had another guy who told me he teaches people who are better after only one lesson than me who was driving a good bit longer. When I started getting pissed off about it, he told me it was just reverse psychology to get me to be better… No joke, I kicked him out of my car a few blocks from my estate and told him to feck right off. I complained about him of course.
I’m hoping to start lessons soon, and I’m on the lookout for who to contact for lessons. I live close to a test route, so learners are always out, and I’m always looking at cars for phone no’s, etc.
Today, I went for a walk and saw a young lad taking a lesson, and the instructor practically hanging out the window staring at me….
Bit offputting, tbh I think I’ll go with the instructor I saw in his car alone a few minutes after who didn’t even look at me!