BSM Driving School

I have a list of annoying things:items, places, situations, and people who annoy me. At the top of the list, (above Jade “Is East Anglia abroad?” Goodie), is the bane of my driving life, the irritation that one day might drive me to drink, drugs and cheap hookers… BSM Driving School.

Not even the hate spitting bile that I feel when that pointless, shambling, turd covered ape Pete Doherty appears on my television can compare to my total and utter contempt I have for the BSM Driving School. If bird flu ever gets to the UK I hope to goodness that the infected birds are attracted by the stupid four-sided pyramids that the BSM cars have on their roof and infect the instructors.

My main problem with BSM Driving School is the apparent insistence of the instructors have to take their pupils on their first lesson on busy main roads, in the rush hour. The girlfriend and I were driving to college one afternoon and we got to the a major roundabout, one car behind the front. The car in front was a BSM car. We were already running late, and so I got a tad annoyed when the BSM car didn’t move forward, even though there were no cars coming. We waited, and waited, and still nothing happened. I couldn’t get past them because there was now queue of traffic behind me so I couldn’t reverse, and it would have been a traffic offence to move into the other lane. I honked the car horn once or twice to alert the moron in the BSM car that getting the hell out-of-the-way would be a wise move. The instructor of the BSM car got out, walked to my car, leaned in the window and started to shout at us. I sat back and let the girlfriend do the shouting back as she is better at this sort of thing then me. But it was pretty clear that he had got a student in the car that simply had no idea how to deal with roundabouts. That’s fine, I don’t have a problem we people that don’t know how to drive, I didn’t know how to drive before I learned. What annoys me is that you don’t let someone who can’t drive on a busy road. Build up to major roads, start small. Don’t jump right into roads where even experienced drivers find it challenging. It’s the same school of logic that says “don’t give Michael Jackson a job at a primary school”.

It’s not the first time that I have been inconvenienced by BSM cars- the top speed these things seem to be able to muster is somewhere around 15 mph in a 30 zone, (10 mph in a 40). Where I live it is quite normal to see hundreds of BSM cars practising reversing around a corner, and three-point turns on busy through roads. And it is only BSM cars that do it, all the other driving schools have respect for other road users and an understanding into the needs of new drivers to gain confidence.