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2010-05-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

South Korean Woman Passes Drivers Test after 960th Try

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Posted by Beavis 2010-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Let's see, 30 questions with four answers each, need 80% to pass, how many tries until 50% probability of passing test, factorial, power of four, carry the two . . . yep, 960 tries!

Proof that even the blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time!

It would have been easier to learn how to read, stubborn grandma! :-)

But hey, I can sympathize with her. Kindergarten was about the hardest four years of my life, too.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-07 00:57|| 2010-05-07 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Most folks give up after 5 or 6 hundred tries. Not her, boy...

Posted by mojo 2010-05-07 03:13|| 2010-05-07 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ...in Cincinnati they don't like people who drive like Belgians -- or like Belgians were in the vicinity.

Please elaborate. How do Belgians drive?

Posted by Mike 2010-05-07 09:55|| 2010-05-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Please elaborate. How do Belgians drive?

It's like this, Mike. In Brussels, at least -- and I was being flip, I can't actually speak to how they drive beyond the Brussels-Antwerp area whose roads I traversed -- as far as I could tell I was the only unimportant person in all of the region. There's NATO, SEATO (whatever that is), the EU, national embassies to all of the above, NGO headquarters, etc and so forth. And they were all too important to learn the Belgian rules of the road. Plus Belgium has queer little rules, like the car turning from the side street to the main road has the right of way... and the city is so dirty that one can't read the street signs posted high on the walls of the buildings at each corner.

I lived on a tertiary side street in the village of Overijse outside of Brussels, and there'd be a major crash at the corner at least once a month, because neither driver would give way to the other making the turn. I was warned when I moved there to expect to total my car at least once a year -- I made it an extra week, the week we were transferred home, but even so there was only $40 of value in what was left of the vehicle.

So I learnt to check again before turning from parking lot to street, and from side street to main street, just in case. We don't do that in Cincinnati.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-07 12:48|| 2010-05-07 12:48|| Front Page Top

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