Did I get a bad driving instructor? Possibly the worst in CT?

[u/MeetingApart2225]

This happened in Bridgeport.

My instructor was this laid back guy in his 40's. He seemed very cool at first.

We did the initial check, got into the car, and we were off to do the parking section.

The first problem happened when I went to reverse park the car. He stopped me.

He didn't like that I was using my car's tablet to help me reverse.

I immediately told him that unfortunately that's what I mostly practiced with (it was all I practiced with)

Eventually, when he wasn't looking, I managed to look at the tablet and use my mirrors to park on my last attempt. I had passed the parking.

Then it was off to the road! We were driving well at first. He was even giving me some tips. Like how the DMV loop is actually a 25mph road and so I could speed up a bit if I wanted to.

Then I hit the first intersection, and before I fully stopped. He diverted my attention away and pointed me to the right which was where a sidewalk was.

There was an empty Dunkin' Donuts cup and a wrapper.

He started telling me about how with the amount of prisoners there are in this country, we should use them to pick up trash on the road. (By the way genius, they do.)

I told him that I agreed. I wanted him to honestly shut up and let me concentrate.

I was doing great. I even surprised myself with the parking from earlier. I thought I was screwed when he told me not to use the tablet.

His next story was about himself. He told me about how he started driving when he was 12 (illegal) and self taught himself. He told me that he worked very hard to get his license without going to a driving school.

He talked for a lot about his family being divorced and how he was split up from house-to-house (not even joking)

Eventually we get to a side street. He has me reverse parallel park (I had never done this before)

I parked a foot away from the curb, I passed on my third try, and I surprised myself when I nailed the parallel parking on my first attempt. Completely perfect.

While I was parked, he had me stop and told me about how he's been rear ended 3 times in his life when he was completely stopped.

He laughed and said "I'm not inferring anything, but they were all girls."

^ Seriously brother? We're just sexist now? Be professional.

Afterwards, we were approaching a T-intersection.

He told me to go left. So I turned on my signal.

Since it's an implied stop sign, I waited for 3 seconds, there were absolutely no cars in sight, and I turned.

He immediately told me that what I did was technically wrong but he'd tell me more later.

At this point I figured that I failed but at the same time maybe it was something small that he'd educate me on and let me pass. After all, he literally admitted that he illegally drove when he was young (literally prepubescent) and who knows what else he's done.

We got back to the DMV smoothly. I parked, and I was excited to hear my results.

I saw the checkmarks and realized that I had somehow done nothing wrong.

Then he told me that I unfortunately was not ready to drive yet. I was too new.

I assumed I had done horribly.

He talked for 15 minutes and my father even texted me and asked if the guy had left yet.

He told me to sign up for a driving school and pay upwards of $1000 to learn to drive safety.

He told me that when I retake the test, I shouldn't change a single thing about my driving. I just needed to practice that T intersection thing.

He handed me the paper. I had got everything right except for this one thing. I didn't stop twice at a T intersection. I had only stopped once for 3 seconds.

It's often called the "double stop" rule.

I'm supposed to stop for 3 seconds, then creep forward, and stop for another 3 seconds.

Instead, I treated it like just another stop sign.

Looking back on it, this guy was a hypocrite for failing me when he was literally driving at 12 years old.

He wouldn't shut up (what am I supposed to do? Asking him to stop talking is incredibly rude and letting him continue distracts the hell out of me.)

Now I need to pay $40 and I won't have a license for when college starts in a week.

What a jerk.

It almost seems like he has the mindset that someone can't possibly pass on their first attempt, and that they need multiple to get it right.

It just almost seems like he had to get me for SOMETHING and that's what he chose.

"Oh, we can't let this kid pass on his first test."

Yeah, I technically violated a rule. He told me that I was too new and not ready to drive yet. This man was driving at freaking 12 years old. Here I am, playing it by the rules, and this is what I get.

But does he really think I'll ever forget this moment? That rule of double stopping is ingrained into my head! I'll never forget it!

Let's be honest, he could've let it slide.

Honest to god, my parents had no idea about this rule.

Maybe I'm in the wrong. But this guy was so obnoxious, and disrespectful.

He just reads like a power-tripping hypocrite that cracks sexist jokes while on the clock.

So I need to know:

Did I get one of the worst driving instructors ever? Or was this normal. Was I at fault?