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15 things I learned from License to Drive

posted 12 years ago by MissLawdy
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1) Nepotism exists at the DMV. You can be given a passing grade on your driver's exam if your sibling passed with flying colours.

2) A teenager who looks like he's 12 can somehow score a date with a complete hottie who looks like she's 22.

3) Your date will think 11:30 at night is a perfectly acceptable time to start the date

4) Apparently clubs that look like greasy-spoon diners have valet parking

5) And apparently those clubs have as many people outside of them at 1:30 am as a mall on a Saturday afternoon

6) You can casually walk out of said bar with a giant bottle of expensive champagne and no one will give a crap

7) 16 year olds can just waltz into a club without being ID'ed whatsoever

8) An old retro drive-thru, said to not be reachable by bus,plane or train, is just clearly in the middle of the city

9) And that diner is still bopping at about 4am like it's 7pm

10) Mercedes' curfew is apparently like 6am yet she's 16. How fortunate.

11) Catapulting your car through a guard rail and off a major highway will leave nothing but a tiny scratch on your car that your dad won't see because he wears glasses

12) But a three ton beam being dropped on the car will finally cause it some noticeable damage

13) However your dad will laugh off this damage because your grandpa totaled your dad's car and you graciously drove your mother, while she was in labour, backwards to the hospital

14) It's also totally kosher to ask your like 8 year old son to drive the car with said wife in labour being a passenger

15) Sometimes cops will just leave you and a drunken geriatric in the middle of a road while writing a ticket because something else came up

[–] PghSportsNation 12 years ago

1) You're a moron

2) It's a comedy. Absurd situations are designed to make you laugh.

3) See #1.

[–] MissLawdy 12 years ago

Apparently you have absurdly low standards for things you'd consider comedy.

The movie is funny because how bad it is (hence the 5.9/10 rating...). So obviously there are parts that I laugh at but that's just it, I'm laughing at the whole ridiculousness of the movie, not with the "jokes" being doled out.

Granted, 80s teen movies weren't the gold standard for top notch writing but still, holy crap.

[–] RustyNail80 12 years ago

16. Some DMV examiners don't use clipboards.
17. As long as you don't burn said examiner, you pass. Simple as that.

[–] yankeesjetsrule-1 12 years ago

I'm guessing you don't live in NYC or any other place that clubs are open late and people hang outside them

And diners are filled with people at 4am especially on the weekends..

[–] Splarne 11 years ago

you can fit a mercedes into the trunk of a cadillac!

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[–] xfilesbell 10 years ago

I take it you have never been to cities like NY, LA or Miami?

[–] rknox39 9 years ago

I watched this movie this morning on HBO, I had to go back and look at the ages of Heather and Corey because I saw she was a few inches taller than him, though she is wearing high heels. I found that they are only a year apart Heather being older. So its not entirely outside the realm of believable for them to go on a date.

[–] pepetoony (1744) 5 months ago

Mercedes finds it perfectly acceptable to phone someone's house at 11:15pm. This was not a thing we did in the '80s, as it made every damn phone in the house ring! Socially unacceptable, Mercedes!