Yikes, the restrictions are really piling up for new drivers. It was nothing like that when I went for my license, although I do live in a different state from yours.
I have to laugh when I think back to my own driving test, at 21. The driving instructor from my driving school took about 8 of us down to the Registry of Motor Vehicles; and one by one, we'd go out on the road test with the officer, while the instructor would sit in the back seat of the car. The day I went, the Registry had accidentally double booked us with another group, so essentially, it meant that the driver's test probably took all of 6 minutes, so that they could fit in everyone!
On top of that, we had been assigned this incredibly handsome, 30ish, Registry cop, and I turned into complete mush, with him sitting in the passenger seat next to me.
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swoon . . .) I was so nervous that I forgot to fasten my seat belt, and he "suggested" I might want to do that . . . Then, I went to put the keys in the ignition to start the car, and I dropped the keys on the floor!
I tried to reach down to get them, but the seat belt was too tight, so I unfastened it and got the keys and started the car. Again, he "suggested" that I might want to put on my seat belt again. (All I remember was mumbling, "I'm sorry, officer," to him, a few times during my road test.
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Meanwhile, my driving instructor, observing me turn into a blithering imbecile, put on a command performance, trying to engage the officer in small talk, to distract him.
In the end, all the officer had me do was drive around a block, making sure I stopped at the stop sign and looked in all directions before moving, and then had me park the car at a curb. (Now, I was about 2 1/2 feet away from the curb, but I parked it . . .
) Don't ask me how I ever passed that driving test!!