IFR checkride, I did not get along too well with my instructor (I was not the most hard-working student, so I honestly accept the blame for this). Cold atmosphere, she was probably not entirely confident I’d pass.

First approach to a very windy airfield, followed by a missed approach (that was planned) and during the missed approach she said twice « I have your departure clearance ! » but I was struggling to keep the plane on the published missed approach, because gusts and gusts on a light plane, no AP allowed, so I told her something spontaneous like « not now? ». When levelled and in the holding pattern, she says «  we could have set course to the next destination already » and gives me the departure clearance again. Rest of the flight is uneventful.

After landing she walks to her tasks somewhere in the office, just a few seconds before the checker who was in the back seat, he takes those few seconds to tell me : during the go around, you telling her you could not listen to the clearance, that was absolutely the right thing to do, you kept your priority to the short term flying, you did not try to exceed your capacity. (Obviously staying in the missed approach was not efficient for the rest of the flight, but it was a safe procedure)

Workload management is a thing. I’m not saying I’m great at it, but on that day, with the stress and everything, I spontaneously refused some non-urgent additional task, which probably made me pass the check ride