I didn't really have that many excuses. I took my first test a long time ago, and a small mistake coupled with a terrible instructor meant I failed. I had scheduled a test a few weeks after that, but then our car got repo'd, since we were driving my at-the-time recently dead grandmother's car, and they decided that despite the fact that we were making payments, we never refinanced it into our name so it was a liability. Then my learner's permit expired, and I got a new one, and then just never did anything. The car we have now is a Magnum, and it's an awkwardly shaped, god-awful piece of shit and I hate driving it so I wouldn't go test in it, so we rented a Cobalt, which is like one step above a Matchbox car.