People who do not learn to drive...
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I don't get it. I can understand maybe not wanting or needing a car, if say you live in London, but not learning to drive when it would make your life so much easier is just odd.
A good mate of mine has a job that involves lots of travel, much of it international but a lot is inside the UK. He's a freelance contactor, only needs a laptop to do his job.
He's constantly on the train, and is an expert on little out of the way stations and the vagaries of Sunday timetables. He often postson Facebook about being stuck in a rainy oate night Doncasteror Newark or somewhere similar with a missed connection here and a failed train there.
His job is connected with a business that deals with football clubs, so a lot of his travel is at weekends on bank holidays and the like.
He is easily able to buy a nice car, but he's got no interest in driving or learning to drive.
I know another couple who don't drive. Both sets of parents often offer to buy them lessons, even a car, but they are not interested and use busses and trains. If they end up starting a family which they hope to do, thatsg oing to be a massive ball ache.
My mum wasthe same. My old man was always offering to get her driving lessons and a car but despite the fact that we lived in a village 8 miles from the nearest town, she took the bus or got lifts with the other village women, all of whom drove.
A good mate of mine has a job that involves lots of travel, much of it international but a lot is inside the UK. He's a freelance contactor, only needs a laptop to do his job.
He's constantly on the train, and is an expert on little out of the way stations and the vagaries of Sunday timetables. He often postson Facebook about being stuck in a rainy oate night Doncasteror Newark or somewhere similar with a missed connection here and a failed train there.
His job is connected with a business that deals with football clubs, so a lot of his travel is at weekends on bank holidays and the like.
He is easily able to buy a nice car, but he's got no interest in driving or learning to drive.
I know another couple who don't drive. Both sets of parents often offer to buy them lessons, even a car, but they are not interested and use busses and trains. If they end up starting a family which they hope to do, thatsg oing to be a massive ball ache.
My mum wasthe same. My old man was always offering to get her driving lessons and a car but despite the fact that we lived in a village 8 miles from the nearest town, she took the bus or got lifts with the other village women, all of whom drove.
One of my colleagues is the same, "I don't see the appeal" followed by "I have legs" is his usual response... each to their own. Doesn't stop him accepting an offered lift after work though 
If they aren't interested in driving it's probably best that they stay off the road anyway. They just wouldn't concentrate if it can't hold their interest.
If they aren't interested in driving it's probably best that they stay off the road anyway. They just wouldn't concentrate if it can't hold their interest.
0000 said:
I get that there are people who might prefer not to drive, sort of. What I don't get is how anyone can hold down a job only using trains for transport; I'd expect to get fired if I was that unreliable.
To be fair to him he usually turns up somewhere the afternoon/evening before he has to be there. It's the getting home from say Norwich to Liverpool on a Sunday night that's causing the delays.It just seems such a bloody miserable thing to have to do, when he could climb into a nice warm car and go where you want to, when you want to.
He is well paid and claims generous expenses. He's been known to get long distance cabs in the past, costin a fair few quid I guess.
I suppose if you've never driven, never had any interest in driving you won't miss what you've never had. Plenty folk get about by public transport just fine.
I know a few folk who don't drive, including my own mother.
There also seems to be a trend of people I know in their 20s who don't drive, not even interested. Maybe these days cost puts people off. When I was 17 I couldn't wait to drive and passed my test 5 months after my 17th birthday.
Of course young folk can keep in touch with each other constantly by social media, when I was growing up you had to either use the house phone or get up off the couch and go and visit. There was the incentive to drive at that time. Freedom to go and visit your mates. It sounds old fashioned now but that was only 1990!
I know a few folk who don't drive, including my own mother.
There also seems to be a trend of people I know in their 20s who don't drive, not even interested. Maybe these days cost puts people off. When I was 17 I couldn't wait to drive and passed my test 5 months after my 17th birthday.
Of course young folk can keep in touch with each other constantly by social media, when I was growing up you had to either use the house phone or get up off the couch and go and visit. There was the incentive to drive at that time. Freedom to go and visit your mates. It sounds old fashioned now but that was only 1990!
0000 said:
What I don't get is how anyone can hold down a job only using trains for transport; I'd expect to get fired if I was that unreliable.
So if you get epilepsy or some other illness where they revoke your licence for a while, you'll have no complaints when they boot you out???The weirdest ones are the people who actually want a car, but still don't bother to get a license.
Or what about the Gallagher brothers. I heard an interview with Noel a few years back where he started saying how amazing his new Audi Q7 was, how it was the best thing he'd ever bought. Then he mentioned he doesn't drive so his girlfriend uses it??
Pretty sure Liam owns a very special E-type jag, yet can't drive. ( that may be Robbie Williams?) These people are minted, why wouldn't they learn?
Or what about the Gallagher brothers. I heard an interview with Noel a few years back where he started saying how amazing his new Audi Q7 was, how it was the best thing he'd ever bought. Then he mentioned he doesn't drive so his girlfriend uses it??
Pretty sure Liam owns a very special E-type jag, yet can't drive. ( that may be Robbie Williams?) These people are minted, why wouldn't they learn?
A colleague who is around 42-43 has only just passed his test. He had no interest in driving before and was pushed into learning by our MD.
I have no idea how he passed the test, he is easily the worst driver I have ever been in a car with. I will never be driven by him again. He also ignored all the advice from the office to get a cheap first car and bought a new Suzuki Swift. He has scraped it down one side already.
I have no idea how he passed the test, he is easily the worst driver I have ever been in a car with. I will never be driven by him again. He also ignored all the advice from the office to get a cheap first car and bought a new Suzuki Swift. He has scraped it down one side already.
rufusgti said:
Pretty sure Liam owns a very special E-type jag, yet can't drive. ( that may be Robbie Williams?) These people are minted, why wouldn't they learn?
If you're minted, with no interest in driving, you can afford to have someone drive you....I have a mate who doesn't drive. 35 years old
Tried once, just couldn't get on with it
Her life is busses and scabbing lifts.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
0000 said:
What I don't get is how anyone can hold down a job only using trains for transport; I'd expect to get fired if I was that unreliable.
So if you get epilepsy or some other illness where they revoke your licence for a while, you'll have no complaints when they boot you out???I have a mate who's like this, he's mid-thirties, lives at home still and works about a mile from where he lives, and has done for nearly twenty years.
He has no intention of learning, and is quite happy to be living and working in the small town that is home. There is a good bus service to the nearby town and city, so there's little incentive to really.
Mind you he must be minted because of it, he leads quite a simple life!
He has no intention of learning, and is quite happy to be living and working in the small town that is home. There is a good bus service to the nearby town and city, so there's little incentive to really.
Mind you he must be minted because of it, he leads quite a simple life!
0000 said:
I wouldn't expect to get booted out for having epilepsy, or no driving licence. I would expect it if I didn't reliably turn up to work.
But that's assuming the trains are that unreliable, and in my experience, they aren't. Anyway, if you were relying on public transport I imagine you would leave lots to time to account for anything happening.My mother (came from the time when "husband does the driving"), sister and her daughter all do not drive.
As a consequence, my brother-in-law drives an awful lot.
Cannot think of anyone else I know that does not drive, but do know quite a few that cannot or are too scared to do things like "go on a motorway". Probably best they don't then.
As a consequence, my brother-in-law drives an awful lot.
Cannot think of anyone else I know that does not drive, but do know quite a few that cannot or are too scared to do things like "go on a motorway". Probably best they don't then.
My Mrs is over 30 and doesn't drive and never taken any lessons.
It's a combination of:
- Being lazy
- Being very bad at directions
- Living in London
- She never really goes anywhere by herself which would require a car
- Wouldn't ever let her drive when we go somewhere anyway
Will have to get her to start learning soon, I imagine it's going to be a necessity for the school run, etc.
It's a combination of:
- Being lazy
- Being very bad at directions
- Living in London
- She never really goes anywhere by herself which would require a car
- Wouldn't ever let her drive when we go somewhere anyway
Will have to get her to start learning soon, I imagine it's going to be a necessity for the school run, etc.
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