My new license

Hurray.... I've passed my driving test.
Well, eh... sort of.

When I took my "written" test, some time ago (actually it wasn't written, it was on a computer screen, answering 20 odd questions), I received a paper with the dates for my practical tests, one for the bike and one for the car. The bike test was October, that's all I remembered. Until this morning. I thought I'd better check the little note with the dates, and instead of saying some time later in October, it said Oct 9--today! And it said: 9.30am!!
Now, in Bermuda you have to bring your own car/bike to the test. I don't have a bike...
But the rent-a-bike shop down the road does. So at 8.30am I rented a little scooter, 50cc and automatic. And off to the Test Ground I went (did I mention that I havent't ridden a bike since I passed my original test. In 1984)
It was all a bit nerve-racking. You had to, well first hand in the papers and wait. And wait. And be called up and outside.
Get on the bike, ride in a cirlce without putting feet on the ground or touching the cones. Ride in the circle again, this time counterclockwise. The zig-zag, no touching of lines or cones, and riding in a smaller circle. Then zig-zag back, and go straight through an alley of cones, without touching them--holy cones!
And after all that I was told I passed--yippey.

And then I got the paperwork back: passed to ride bikes class 2A with restriction 7 (translation: nothing bigger than 50cc, and only automatic)... after all that blood sweat and tears, well no blood really and no tears, but it's still warm enough for sweat... one out of three.
After all that I got a license to ride a little moped. Great...

But I had the scooter-moped thingy for a whole day, so off I went, exploring Bermuda, and taking part in the ritual car-bike dance on the windy roads of this island. But with only 50cc it wasn't much of a dance. Plus, remember the speed limit is 35km/h (yes, that's 22mph!!). I'm sure i didn't go over it, as I rigerously stuck to the car in front of me, and surely no Bermudian breaks the speed limit. ... ........... right.

So it was another one of those milestone days. Now I have a Bermudian driving license (with restrictions...).
Unfortunatley, I could only afford a 24hr rental. So the bike goes back to its fold tomorrow morning--just in time for the cruise ship tourists (who actually DO stick to the limit, quite annoying). And I'm back on the bus. I got an October pass.