Arrested Development

Today I experienced a major setback in my persuit of the American dream. I failed the written drivers test. The complexity and scale of the test caught me completely by surprice, and I failed miserably with 7 wrong answers on the 30 question test. Turns out that reading the front and back cover of the test book simply did not provide me with the information necessary to pass the test. I consider it a failure on the part of the Hawaiian DMV not to inform me about the massive scope of this test. It was practically never ending. It took at least 3-4 mins to complete and thats from the persepctive of a very skilled test tasker. ”FLUSH” – You hear that? Thats the sound of 2 dollars down the drain! Thats right 2 dollars! Who in their right mind charges 2 dollars for a drivers license? Its daylight robbery. Why do you have to know the difference between the white and yellow lines on the road anyway? Well now I have to wait a week before I can come back and take the test over. Fortunately I dont have to re-take the eye examination. I love the American way of doing drivers licenses: ”Read line nr. 6 sir” – ”æhhh... e-f-t-h-y-u” - ”Ok. 20/20 vision – thank you sir”. I could hear the 80 year old dude with the seeing eye dog in front of me singing ”On the Road again...”.

Well as they say at the DMV; ”See ya next week”.