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A recent report by the NRMA has found that there is no better time to educate your dim-witted teenager on road safety than at approximately 5pm on an Easter Monday.
This comes after majority of metropolitan Australia’s holidayers were treated to every nervous swerve and excessive braking of the 16-year-olds in the car up front, while coming home from the long weekend last night.
“There is simply no better way to learn” says lead NRMA researcher Jeff Toophey.
“It’s proven that the most effective way to get your ahead around a 3rd to 4th gear change is on the outside lane of the Pacific Motorway with 300 cars of screaming kids banked up behind you”
“Very few people get the opportunity to learn how to bounce between 60 and 90 kilometres non-stop for two to three hours in long weekend peak hour”
One local motorist, Kyle disagrees.
“I just feel like it was one of the most infuriating afternoons of my life.”
“and that’s coming from a bloke that was trapped at work for six hours when that bikie went mad with a gun in Brisbane CBD a few years back”
But as Kyle points out, it must have been even worse inside the car.
“He spent 45 minutes driving directly on the gridded road surface markings. I could hear it from three cars back”
“I spose the kid was doing everyone a favour with the double demerits”
