Driver's Ed, May 5th, Period 1

[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

The Danger Shop is set up to look like the parking lot outside a certain museum. Complete with T-Rex statue. As Tommy stares up at it, he rolls his eyes. He should have gotten someone from the school to help program these scenarios instead of writing Hayley. She had a weird sense of humour.

"Okay class, today's your final." He waves to the Jeep (of course it's the Jeep) parked outside the museum. He hands each of them a list of tasks (shoulder checks, paralell parking, staying at the speed limit). "You'll note that each thing on your list is worth a certain number of points. For each task you don't do correctly, those points will be removed from a score of 100."

[ooc: please mod yourselves completing the first, oh, few minutes of the test. there's something planned to happen after that.

zomg, tired now, going to bed. will pick up threads t'morrow afternoon after i get home from work.]

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Drive!

[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

*looks innocent*

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally starts her driving test and does quite well for the beginning. She's nervous, but that's not impeding her too much.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty gets behind Cally and gets within an inch of her bumper and starts honking the horn like mad.

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally does her best to attempt to pull over and let the jerk pass.

Thankfully for Marty, she can't tell who it is.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty? Definitely trying to break every single rule he's supposed to follow.

It's hard to do perpendicular parking, but somehow he achieves it.

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[can_be_more]

Aeryn does pretty well. She's just a speeder, that's all.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty decides it would be fun to cut off Aeryn and then slow waaaaaay down in front of her.

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[can_be_more]

Aeryn remembers that it's a bad idea to rear end someone on purpose.

However, weapons would be terrific.

So she turns on her signal, completely forgets to check her mirrors because she still doesn't quite understand why the car doesn't check your blind spot for you, and speeds up to move in front of him.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders hops into the Jeep and, like a good boy, buckles his seat belt and makes sure to lock the doors. He's not sure how much good it will do to lock the doors when hello, it's an open-roofed Jeep, but you're supposed to lock the doors, so he does.

He adjusts his mirrors with an insane kind of concentration and turns the key in the ignition. Pulling out into traffic? No problem. Parallel parking? Easy, even though he's a little bit jerky for the first adjustment or two.

He's not so great on the speed limit, though. He still thinks it's supposed to be the minimum speed, not the maximum.

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[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, locking the doors?

Not really gonna help.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Yeah, NO KIDDING IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP.

Anders doesn't think it's going to do any good that the thing chasing him looks like the Zord he had to drive the other week.

So that speed limit? Yeah, frak it. Anders floors the damn thing and pulls off for an open stretch of road.

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[swerval_zero]

Zero, dressed in a D-Bunnies t-shirt with a hole in it and a plaid skirt possibly handed down from Arsenal, gets in her Jeep and goes through the whole pre-drive prep. Doors locked, mirrors adjusted, seatbelt fastened. She starts her driving test and, despite the fact that she's nervous like a nervous thing, is doing quite well.

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[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the T-Rex that starts stampeding towards her probably isn't gonna help with those nerves.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"EEP! Zeroooo! Look out!"

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[swerval_zero]

Zero glances in her rearview mirror, starts to scream, and floors it.

And then she notices things are a bit...breezy.

She glances down and discovers that she is now wearing a white sports bra and pink lacy panties (she was out of everything else). Cue more screaming as she careens through the course at high speed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

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[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

Archie might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, because he has to drive something different every week. And he's still kind of . . . yeah, really lousy at the driving thing.

At least he remembers to put his seat belt on before he peels out onto the road in a crazy breakneck kind of way.

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[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

And within a few minutes, there's the T-Rex.

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[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

As if Archie wasn't bad enough at this driving thing, this is pressure of the absolutely unexpected and completely unwelcome kind.

He spins the wheel hard -- once again forgetting that this is a steering wheel and not a ship's wheel -- and by sheer, dumb, only-in-Fandom random I did not mean to rhyme luck manages to do a 180 as his foot presses harder and harder on the gas.

That would be because he's gone rigid with terror, and not in a good bad dirty good way.

Unfortunately, he's now careening straight toward the T-Rex.

Good thing he doesn't know it's carnivorous.

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots buckled in and got ready to carefully navigate the course.

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[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

About ten minutes after Broots started his test, the T-Rex starts chasing after him.

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

The high pitched screaming? Broots. He also, happily forgetting about every single driving law, slammed his foot down on the accelerator. While screaming.

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Hamlet takes a deep breath and starts the driver's ed final. He nervously starts up the car and starts driving, wobbling back and forth down the road. He's still not great at this, but he's a little better than at the beginning of the year. Really, just just glad it's not a leprous giant robot again.

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[dr-tommy.livejournal.com]

And... cue the giant robot.

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[aroseintime.livejournal.com]

Rose gets in and starts the test. She does pretty well, but scrapes her tires on the curb when parking.

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[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova's still having trouble with the whole constant acceleration thing. And she has a habit of not realising that parked cars are obstacles to be avoided until the very last second.

And it's starting to get really hard to ignore that voice in the back of her head that was telling her exactly how many points pedestrians were worth.