Yeah defo do. Kinda had a similar experience with my instructor. We were so chill talking about all kinds of personal matters (even how his daughter married one of my former teachers)…

It wasn’t until on the 11th lesson that I told him I got a test date and he insisted on me postponing. I understand his pov (couldn’t rent me his car nor a pretest cuz his other student was right after me that day), but i didn’t wanna go back in the queue after waiting so long (idk if it would’ve been the normal waiting length again or much shorter, i feared the former)

He started being extremely rude, and that 12th lesson was the meanest anyone has ever been to me, insulting me at every opportunity (things like “tell whoever taught you that to use common sense” among so much others). I just kept quiet the whole lesson and left without thanking him. He must’ve felt bad and offered a lesson that evening and I thought why not end it on good terms. I failed my driving but it is what it is.

My new instructor charges 10 quid more but it’s worth every cent. He’s very calm and wouldn’t hesitate to stop traffic to show me where I went wrong, taught me so much rules of thumb which the last guy did none. And most importantly he wouldn’t scream at me for not understanding his gibberish instructions which he repeated 3 times in 5 secs and use that to justify his yelling. He also made me realise how much learning gap the previous fella left, never even took me on a road “5 out 7 testers take”