I moved to Venice to avoid this problem 😉 The Italians DO have a different keyboard! I remember sobbing in an internet cafe when I first arrived in Rome 17 years ago because the @ sign was nowhere to be found
ah yes the supplemental special characters. fair enough, the spanish have those too, though after a few keyboard excursions you master them quickly enough. nobody except the french has so absurdly rearranged the actual letters, the meat and potatoes of the keyboard.
I laughed and nearly cried from PTSD reading this. I passed after failing once, too (earlier this year) and still feel enraged when I see all the infractions other drivers make. Constantly. And you know a fontionnaire is just waiting to wield their power over you.
Geez, I too had a third base view- and then moved to the UK to do a second degree (after deciding the first wasn't for me..... sorry folks) where I learned what it REALLY meant to be a poor student (as a voyeur of course, I may have changed my wardrobe to fit in but I still had American funds backing me up) I too am double jointed, painfully so in the knees now that I have passed the half century milestone AND I was indignant at failing my first UK driving test at 32 when a vindictive soon to be ex husband decided that he would threaten to tell the authorities that I was driving for 10 years plus on my 'murican one (in the middle of the heat and hate and vitriol I actually believed he would call AN authority, and that they would CARE!). Failed first go. I told no one until now. Immediately booked a second test and 6 weeks later there I was again with the same examiner. I knew I passed when we were heading back and he started asking me about hotels in Florida (not to accompany him). Its always about Florida, NY or California it seems. I can stop a convo dead flat with ' oh, I'm from Virginia". Anyway, another brilliant episode-
One thing along the keyboard theme- have you seen the payment devices in Greece and a few other places in the EU where should you have to put in your pin the numbers change every single time. Apparently its to stop people looking over your shoulder and seeing your pin. First time it happened to me I thought I was having a stroke.
I moved to Venice to avoid this problem 😉 The Italians DO have a different keyboard! I remember sobbing in an internet cafe when I first arrived in Rome 17 years ago because the @ sign was nowhere to be found
ah yes the supplemental special characters. fair enough, the spanish have those too, though after a few keyboard excursions you master them quickly enough. nobody except the french has so absurdly rearranged the actual letters, the meat and potatoes of the keyboard.
I laughed and nearly cried from PTSD reading this. I passed after failing once, too (earlier this year) and still feel enraged when I see all the infractions other drivers make. Constantly. And you know a fontionnaire is just waiting to wield their power over you.
Geez, I too had a third base view- and then moved to the UK to do a second degree (after deciding the first wasn't for me..... sorry folks) where I learned what it REALLY meant to be a poor student (as a voyeur of course, I may have changed my wardrobe to fit in but I still had American funds backing me up) I too am double jointed, painfully so in the knees now that I have passed the half century milestone AND I was indignant at failing my first UK driving test at 32 when a vindictive soon to be ex husband decided that he would threaten to tell the authorities that I was driving for 10 years plus on my 'murican one (in the middle of the heat and hate and vitriol I actually believed he would call AN authority, and that they would CARE!). Failed first go. I told no one until now. Immediately booked a second test and 6 weeks later there I was again with the same examiner. I knew I passed when we were heading back and he started asking me about hotels in Florida (not to accompany him). Its always about Florida, NY or California it seems. I can stop a convo dead flat with ' oh, I'm from Virginia". Anyway, another brilliant episode-
One thing along the keyboard theme- have you seen the payment devices in Greece and a few other places in the EU where should you have to put in your pin the numbers change every single time. Apparently its to stop people looking over your shoulder and seeing your pin. First time it happened to me I thought I was having a stroke.
oh my god that someone would fuck with your driving license.... what a shit. BUT you would have needed to get it straight eventually...