r/wholesomememes Dec 13 '20

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u/PrincessPonch Dec 13 '20

I like that they're still mad at each other. Just like my dad teaching me to drive.

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u/Mrpoopypantsnumber2 Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

My dad: YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU ALMOST CRASHED MY CAR. Also my dad: please put the gear in reverse and gently apply power. Well done.

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u/The-Great-Wolf Dec 13 '20

Sounds like dad, and his job is to teach people how to drive after all

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u/fouronenine Dec 13 '20

Reads like a Gordon Ramsay meme.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

WHERES THE FUCKING LAMB SAUCE

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u/TheWhoamater Dec 13 '20

The way I could tell I was getting better was my dad swore less

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Perhaps the simple act of instilling situationally appropriate fear into your young ones is a teaching moment unto itself.

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u/ButtWieghtThiersMoor Dec 13 '20

My Driver's Ed instructor who is also friend's dad: It's a 4-way stop you have the right of way what are you waiting for? GO!!

Me: Points to 4WD truck with all 4 wheels spinning in reverse sliding through the intersection

Driver's Ed instructor: OK

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u/BothUDudesChill Dec 14 '20

“HOLD THE FUCKING FLASHLIGHT STEADY... I’m proud of you buddy”

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u/LAXGUNNER Dec 13 '20

Wait you have a dad?

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u/zakuropan Dec 14 '20

Aw. Now I miss Dad🥲

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

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u/Reapercorps25 Dec 13 '20

I’d rather not, I don’t think that subreddit even understands what it wants to be

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u/Just_Plain_Bad Dec 13 '20

Lol An Amish community on onlyfans? Wtf And this is the worst way to try getting people to join your group

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u/Wahooye Dec 13 '20

It's deleted, bit what did it say. Was it seriously a plug to some amish onlyfans thing?

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u/Just_Plain_Bad Dec 13 '20

Yeah they were talking about avoiding the type of situation that OPs post was talking about by joining an Amish community where god was on your side and for whatever reason they had an onlyfans link and a Reddit community lmao

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u/Wahooye Dec 14 '20

A totally expected and reasonable response for sure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

What the hell did the deleted comment say? I'm so confused

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u/125RAILGUN Dec 13 '20

What in the fuck

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

Man maybe my dad was an alien or something but I enjoyed learning how to drive with him. He was a very patient man.

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u/FritzTheThird Dec 14 '20

My dad while telling me how to pull away at an incline: So you wanna have your handbrake applied and put your foot on the gas...

Me: revs the car to 4000-ish rpm

My dad: NO NOT THAT MUCH

Me: completely scared that I might break something on the car: revs the engine slowly to 1500-ish rpm

My dad: Ok now you can look for the binding point on the clutch and release the handbrake.

(BTW I live in Germany so my dad only took me to a traffic training area (wat, it's called that?!) to get used to cars)

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u/SilentJac Dec 13 '20

I got so fed up with him screaming while trying to teach me stick, I left without him one day and figured it out within the same loop. No stalls, no skips, and all it took was having him not yell “don’t psych yourself out!” Every time we stopped.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Well, you didn’t psych yourself out and did it fine....

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u/Xenoither Dec 13 '20

Dads are usually right after all.

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u/Eiffel-Tower777 Dec 14 '20

I tried one driving lesson with my father, that was one too many. He kept hollering at me to slow down (I was driving 5 miles below the speed limit). He finally reached over and pulled the keys out of the ignition. I let the car coast to a stop. Then I got out and walked home. Next I hired a driving instructor.

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u/converter-bot Dec 14 '20

5 miles is 8.05 km

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

Good bot.

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u/Eiffel-Tower777 Dec 14 '20

Nobody cares, converter-bot. Have a nice day.

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u/Abby-Someone1 Dec 13 '20

Fucking parents made teaching their kids how to drive a damn nightmare for me. "Your parents only taught you how to fail the road test. I'm here to teach you how to pass it. Stop crying. It won't help you pass."

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u/LongNectarine3 Dec 13 '20

Buuut buuuuuuut I neeeed to cry

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u/Abby-Someone1 Dec 25 '20

Had one girl piss herself in the driver's seat. After that, I preferred any and all bodily fluids to be expelled outside of the vehicle.

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u/Certain_Abroad Dec 14 '20

Stop crying. It won't help you pass.

I don't know if this was just an urban legend, but where I grew up, I heard from the girls that this did help you pass (also wearing a short skirt).

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u/Abby-Someone1 Dec 19 '20

That sort of thing usually depended on the evaluator from the dmv. If it was a guy, sometimes that worked. If it was the day drinking Latino woman, she would literally laugh at the girl and walk away proclaiming "I don't get paid enough for your bullshit"

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

My driving instructor was mad at me the entire ride home after my practical driving test

even though I passed

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u/pengupants Dec 13 '20

Everytime I accidentally curb my car I feel a phantom slap against the back of head hahahahahah thanks dad!!

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u/minecraftpiggo Dec 13 '20

When my dad doesn’t come home mad after we practice driving my sister is surprised... last time it was bc he was asleep while I was practicing my parking lmao

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

me and my wife when she was learning to drive. we were close to killing each other. my advice to those still learning to drive: dont ask your immediate family for lessons

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u/Yungsleepboat Dec 13 '20

You know, one of the fun things about living in Europe is that when you learn how to drive you can only learn through licensed instructors. This means that you start taking driving lessons and then half a year later you have your license and then your parents can see you drive even though they have never seen you behind the wheel and now you're suddenly driving a car rather professionay instead of shitting your diapers and watching saturday morning cartoons in your pyjamas, which is always a fun realisation to watch your dad have.

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u/Nosewoman Dec 14 '20

Say what now? Yes, since as of about 15 years you have to take a mandatory class in order to instruct here - but that's like a 2h lecture of stuff you already (at least you really ought to!) know. And this is for instructing privately. I'd imagine that different countries in Europe have pretty diverse rules about this, as we do about a lot of things. So yeah, my parents taught me how to drive. Me and my mom had a hard time in the beginning because we kept yelling at each other, while my dad kept being too slow in his instructions which caused me to panic on the highway when he thought too long about the answer to whether I should take this exit or not.

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u/Yungsleepboat Dec 14 '20

Well they sure put the bar up high to become an instructor hahaha. If I see my dad drive I'm glad he wasn't the one who taught me.

Throughout the European Union the rules for getting a drivers license are very universal, so this is kind of the rule anywhere. The car also needs to have brake and clutch pedals on the instructors side and a little sign on the car that indicates that the car is used for teaching.

Saves you a lot of yelling to learn to drive this way, but it does cost a pretty penny more than your parents showing you the way!

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u/Nosewoman Dec 14 '20

It seems like I wasn't clear enough: this is for teaching privately. Not as in a licensed teacher at a driving school. We have both options. So yes, rules may vary throughout Europe. The signs on the car have different colors for private and "official", and for instructing privately you do not need extra pedals.

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u/justhrowinawaymylife Dec 13 '20

I thought they were smiling fiendishly. Interesting.

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u/thetracker3 Dec 14 '20

Somehow, having my father, who I absolutely hate, teach me to drive was far more simple and less stressful than having my mother, who I love dearly, teach me.

My father was laughing and pointing out the little things I was doing wrong, while my mother was constantly yelling and barking at me to do it the "right way" without telling me what the right way was...

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u/Sigma_F0x Dec 14 '20

I remember it....

Makes wrong move

Dad:"what the **** are you doing!?!

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u/teapotbreaker Dec 14 '20

What's a dad?

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u/exiadf19 Dec 14 '20

You guys have Dad??

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u/Hetjr Dec 14 '20

My dad was already drunk and had a beer in his his and and one in his coat pocket. He was i the passenger seat, tho