We woke early, well about 6.30 so that we
could get to the Transport Office for 8 as that was the time Nit needed to
register. We arrived at 8.10 and of
course registration had just begun. Nit
was upset as last year you just needed to pay 500Bht and they’d handed you a
licence. Now he had to do a mornings
school as well.
But the first task was
to fill out the registration forms which required his names to be
transliterated into English. He knew his
first name, but not his second name so I was called on to transliterate
syllable by syllable.
We sat around waiting until 10 when Nit, and the other
candidates were called to go to ‘school’.
What followed was apparently a couple of hours being talked at by the
police, a large proportion of which the vast majority of attendees slept
through, including Nit. Still they had
‘attended’. The first group, which did
not include Nit then sat the theory and took the practical test. Nit appeared and we had lunch. Then he returned, sat the theory and returned
reporting he had passed.
Then the
practical which involved driving up a ramp, stopping, doing a hill start,
driving between a row of cones, stopping again, and then reversing down a
parallel set of cones, then driving forward to get your form signed. Nit managed this without hitting anything and
duly collected 300bht from me to go and get his licence. Watching other candidates it was obvious that
if you did made a mistake, you weren’t failed, you just went round the course
again.
Driving licence to the better we headed home for an early night as it was
reliably reported we needed to be up at 5.30 for the wedding!
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