This fucking driving license is driving me crazy

One thing that I learned from the University of Missouri is that trick questions are written by douchebags that normally have compensation problems. I have found two organizations that are truly made for each other, the University of Missouri and the Centraal Bureau Rijwaardigheidsbewijzen (Dutch DMV). Both organizations think that it is encouragable to ask trick questions meant to make someone fail.

Example Given:

How many meters may the load of a trailer hang on the front of your automobile?

answer: 0 meters.

Now this is a douchebag question for the following reason: You study and learn that it is forbidden to do this, but you also have to study a possible other 1000 questions, most of which are about numbers (and are not in multiple choice form). Thus you get confused and put 3 down as the answer (because that is the amount that you may have hanging in front of your car), and the answer is wrong.

Essentially, you are not a weirdo who drives a Geo Metro and needs to lug around 20 feet long ladders, so this will never ever apply to you.


What is more sad, is that Dutch people do not even learn the rules of the road, about road rage etc. They just learn the questions, and soon after the test, forget what they learned.

Now I love Dutch people, but their driving is one notch below pure obscenity. I came to this realization over the summer when I was in Belgium. In Belgium, when you see that a lane is closed, everyone gets in to the right lane and waits their turn through. You never stop, but you do have to drive slowly for about 10 minutes. This is not the case in Holland. In Holland, people will drive into the left lane and try to pass the people who are waiting in the lane that is open. They will pass and try to nose dive into the open lane at the latest moment. This means that you are stopped for at least 30 minutes, because everyone is driving like an antisocial. This in itself makes owning a Dutch license to me less desirable, but I do not have a choice.