ABOUT DRIVING A CAR

In Spain, you can get the driving licence when you have come to age, I mean, at 18. There is another law in America, for example, where you can already be a driver at 16. My very close friend, Jona, has had a large and unbelievable history with his driving licence test. He was 16 and then he decided to prepare his driving test because he had nothing special to do in summer time so he enrolled to a driving school and he started studying the book they have given him. When September came up, he was not very sure to take the exam because he only had done few tests and he did not feel ready, indeed. Besides, he was the one of his friends who was going to take the exam so he did not feel very stressed for being the first one, but he wanted to try it and finally he took the exam. Here in Spain you only can commit 3 mistakes of your driving test if you want to pass it, well, then he did 6 so obviously he failed. Actually, there is no problem with that because you have another opportunity to get it so he thought “I will took it later, I am not in a hurry because I couldn’t get my driving licence until 18” besides the guy of the driving school told him that his file would expire in two years. That’s right, when he was 17 (almost 18) he was ready to take the exam for the second time and he went again to the driving school to tell the guy to enrol him for the exam, but surprisingly that boy told him that his file had been expired and he was like “ what is happening here”, then the boy told him that there was a new law which says that the driving files expire in 3 months, my friend was arguing with him because no one had told him it and he is not responsible of that problem because the driving school should be which calls the students which files are going to expire for advising them. That boy only said “I am sorry but you will have to pay taxes again if you want to take your exam”. So Jona went out annoyed and when he arrived home he told everything to his family; their relatives said that it should be a kind of a cheat. So his brother Fernando asked the problem to a friend whose uncle is a teacher of another driving school and that man said to Fernando that it was not true, there was no new law, so Jona has not to pay taxes again because he has already paid his file and he had another opportunity to try it. So Jona went to speak with that man and he admitted him in his driving school without paying no enrolment for going to his classes. Finally, he felt ready to take the exam and when he was to that place to take it, there were a lot of people and a man who was saying names of people to enter the class. The time was passing by and the man was not pronounce his name so Jona said “excuse me, I am enrolled to take this exam today at 8 am and you have not said my name” so he checked it with his laptop and said “oh boy, I am sorry but here it appears that your file has expired and you have to pay taxes and enrol for the exam another day” my friend started to cry and he almost have a black out when he heard that hurting words. Anyway, he went to speak with the person who was at the public department in charge of controlling traffic and trying to be polite, he told that women all his history and she said she could not do anything because she was not in charge of that and she admitted that there was true that a new law existed but it has be working only a week ago; because before all of this, there was also another new law but they were not paying it much attention and they did what they wanted to. Jona get nervous and said to her that it was not fair and he was not going to pay again something he had already paid once. He said to that woman that they were a group of incompetents and it was not possible that they lead with the law in their own way because that was a cheat and he would do a claim.

Well, after this messed history, that is how the law acts in front of that kind of situations and the effects of the crisis, where everyone, even the government wants to rob our money with excuses like this one.