First day on the road!

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Congrats mate, as has been said the real learning starts now and TBH the moment you stop learning is the moment you become a bad driver.

First thing I did when I got my insurance through was go and pick my mate up, after a phone conversation. He was riding his bike to college and decided "f*ck this shit, come and pick me up from town"

Yeah I was about the same, first thing I did was double a speed limit then go and pick up my mate.

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

Yep, 3 days after my test I flattened a traffic island in my 0.8 Daewoo Matiz in the wet. Hadn't left enough braking distance for the speed I was doing and there was a transit van blocking the nearside and half the offside lane so I picked the island rather than hit the van.

I think I did about 300 miles the day I insured my first car haha.
Just got in and put as much fuel in I could afford and didn't go home until it ran out

I was exactly the same although I think I managed about 150 miles. It was 2 days later on the weekend when all my mates chipped in petrol mone that I drove down to bournemouth cos we were bored. It was coming back from that I hit the island.

No one is encouraging him to Tom, we're warning him with the benefit of experience. Most of us were far more reckless as teenagers.

Yeah definitely not encouraging. I think the moment I realised what a dick I had been was a little while after I went back to driving* and got my mondeo, the first "fast" car I'd had and was driving down a road and thought the 50mph I was doing was a bit much and then remembered that I'd previously done 80mph down there. I still can't believe how much of a lady garden I was.

*I gave up driving for the larger half of a year after writing off 2 cars in 2 months, the second accident could of easily killed me so stopped to give myself a chance to grow up.