At the ripe old age of 32 I've never had a single driving lesson. No real reason other than laziness. I would love to drive but cannae be arsed with the months of learning involved.
Anyone else in the same boat?
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Never had a lesson , drove when I lived in Turkiye in the mid nineties ( I was definitely better than a few of the locals )occasionaly move some of the artic trucks in the works yard . Been toying with the idea for a while , however even if I did drive as a qualified fella , the actual need to wouldn't often arise ... Mrs Garymac drives and I drink , it's worked for twenty years , she dont touch a drop , never has , however I think it'd be nice to give her a break on the longer trips , also be handy for the states .
Bless .
Gorra say though , best driver I've ever been with was a girl , ex Military Police , casually said to her one night :
' ever do any of that evasion of kidnappers and bad guys stuff ? '
cue white knuckle ride ........
Well , i doubt if i'd pass a test now!! I took my test in 1987!
There's that theory test now.Don't fancy that
frank smarra wrote: i got my licesne to drive at 32, never drove before, i love it
Would that be deemed a late start in the States Frank ? Thae car seems so part of U.S. culture / life
Three things hold me back from getting my test,
- fear of other road users, it makes no odds how good YOU are if some other donkeywit drives into you, this business of 2 way traffic is deeply disturbing to me.
- fear of being in charge of something that can kill (I know I've flown sound rigs big enough to kill if used right, butthat's different, that would have taken REAL effort not a momentary lapse.
- Too many hours on sims has taught me too much about driving near the edge for me ever to be a safe driver (I'd find it nigh on impossible not to press on, and I dissapprove greatly of speeding anywhere but empty roads. Not to mention braking with my left foot with works in almost NO road cars.
Passed my test first time, aged 17. Haven't driven in three years though and only ever owned one car. Just no need for it in London. I only ever needed a car 'for the shops' and now all the supermarkets deliver to you anyways!
Always had birds with cars though. It's one thing I insist on! 
Also passed my test first time at 17, but never owned a car until I was 31! (was a skint student, lived in London, had a company car). However, am currently in the process of getting back to training as an Approved Driving Instructor, so maybe I could offer my services to those who can't, but would like to!? 
And the theory test is ok....it's only 35 questions for the learner driver, but 100 for the driving instructor. I passed the theory test for driving instructors last year, and if I can do that, you can all pass the 35 questions version! 
GlasVegas wrote:
Anyone else in the same boat?
Baby you can drive my car!
If I can have a ride in your boat.
Steve Campbell wrote: Three things hold me back from getting my test,
- fear of other road users, it makes no odds how good YOU are if some other donkeywit drives into you, this business of 2 way traffic is deeply disturbing to me.
Doesn't even have to be oncoming traffic for danger, as per those unfortunate children in Florida who were passengers in a car, and the car was slammed into from behind and forced into a school bus, earlier this week. Very sad :(
Don't drive yet, had a few lessons two years ago in a car park. I hopefully will pick it up again over the next few years, thankfully I'm only 19, well, 20 in 9 days. :D
i can't - but its early days.
Legally able to but I haven't had time for lessons yet.
You can't get away with not driving here really - evrything is so spread out. Not like England.
Jiphy wrote: forced to learn at 29... bloody town without public transportations...
The same here. Over a year I've been driving without a driver's license - coz I didn't pass the tests a year ago and hardly will pass another.
well it took me almost another 10 years after getting my licence before i actually owned my first car. i tell you, you need a car in this town. sad but true.
I'm 21 and I don't even have a permit. In Philadelphia, because auto insurance is extremely high, my parents won't let me learn to drive or even take the written test. But because I live near a bus terminal in Philly, a car isn't entirely necessary.
My parents could only afford the Model T Ford handed down form generation to generation because every generation was too poor to afford a new car. Hence, being the 18 of 30 children I never learned how to drive but I learned how to repair the car with empty soup cans and duct tape.
In California of the United States, no one walks anywhere more than five blocks away and proper public transportation does not exist. Being without driver's license might as well make one a quadrapelegic in CA.
I got my license at 16 and I was one of the last to get one in my town.
I've always lived in the city so there's never been any real need to drive. The train at the top of the road (4 of them an hour) gets me into the city centre in 8 minutes. Driving in and parking would take about 40.
That said, I hate relying on mates when I need to get somewhere even slightly off the beaten track (retail parks, my granny's house etc). And it really comes into it's own when you're on holiday. Fortunately I always bring mates/burds who can drive!
About 6 months before my 30th I had a bet with my burd that if I wasn't driving by then I'd stick $100 on red or black when we got to Vegas. My birthday came, we went to Vegas, I stuck on the bet and it won. Don't know if that's an omen....
just do it.
its nimps when you know how, and you're life is changed forever.
(with tax, insurance, fuel etc
)
What's nimps mean?
Anyhoo,
I started learning to drive when i was 17 but didn't like my instructor. He used to push my knee down for me to work the clutch and put his hand on mine when i was changing the gear stick, so i though he was a bit pervy.
Then my friend who was also a student of his, got a phone call asking her if she was in the shower and all sorts of stuff. Her number was ex-directory and only 15 people knew it. Then she recognised his voice. From then on i used to hide and not answer the door when he turned up for my lesson. I couldn't even speak to him to tell him i'd cancelled. Dirty perv!!
I only passed my test about 6 years later as i only needed the bus to work. Just been offered a job in Manchester City Centre and if i go for it, i can get rid of my car. That's a scary thought but think of all the money i'll have!
I'm a bloody good parker by the way, i can get where water can't!
18...you whoppers. first time.
no convictions (surprising), no points, no fines, no nothing.
(no petrol...shit)
Missy Jem wrote: What's nimps mean?
Anyhoo,
I started learning to drive when i was 17 but didn't like my instructor. He used to push my knee down for me to work the clutch and put his hand on mine when i was changing the gear stick, so i though he was a bit pervy.
Then my friend who was also a student of his, got a phone call asking her if she was in the shower and all sorts of stuff. Her number was ex-directory and only 15 people knew it. Then she recognised his voice. From then on i used to hide and not answer the door when he turned up for my lesson. I couldn't even speak to him to tell him i'd cancelled. Dirty perv!!
I only passed my test about 6 years later as i only needed the bus to work. Just been offered a job in Manchester City Centre and if i go for it, i can get rid of my car. That's a scary thought but think of all the money i'll have!
I'm a bloody good parker by the way, i can get where water can't!
where can't water get to?
As I mentioned elsewhere, I will learn one day. Because you need a road license to go and pay your money to drive an F1 car. 900 horsies in something that weighs less than Jordan's tits. yip Ya. Why you need a road license I do not know, because most places offering an F1 experience have cars from the mid 90's onwards.... flappy paddle gears, auto clutch, traction control (and if you get the right year's car) ABS and active suspension as well...... tard proof :D
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: What's nimps mean?
Anyhoo,
I started learning to drive when i was 17 but didn't like my instructor. He used to push my knee down for me to work the clutch and put his hand on mine when i was changing the gear stick, so i though he was a bit pervy.
Then my friend who was also a student of his, got a phone call asking her if she was in the shower and all sorts of stuff. Her number was ex-directory and only 15 people knew it. Then she recognised his voice. From then on i used to hide and not answer the door when he turned up for my lesson. I couldn't even speak to him to tell him i'd cancelled. Dirty perv!!
I only passed my test about 6 years later as i only needed the bus to work. Just been offered a job in Manchester City Centre and if i go for it, i can get rid of my car. That's a scary thought but think of all the money i'll have!
I'm a bloody good parker by the way, i can get where water can't!
where can't water get to?
A Fenian's/Prod's face according to which bit of NI you were born in :D
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: What's nimps mean?
Anyhoo,
I started learning to drive when i was 17 but didn't like my instructor. He used to push my knee down for me to work the clutch and put his hand on mine when i was changing the gear stick, so i though he was a bit pervy.
Then my friend who was also a student of his, got a phone call asking her if she was in the shower and all sorts of stuff. Her number was ex-directory and only 15 people knew it. Then she recognised his voice. From then on i used to hide and not answer the door when he turned up for my lesson. I couldn't even speak to him to tell him i'd cancelled. Dirty perv!!
I only passed my test about 6 years later as i only needed the bus to work. Just been offered a job in Manchester City Centre and if i go for it, i can get rid of my car. That's a scary thought but think of all the money i'll have!
I'm a bloody good parker by the way, i can get where water can't!
where can't water get to?
It's a saying we have in these here parts, meaning i can park in very small spaces. Usually end up shunting somebody away 
john kershaw wrote: nimps means easy or simple.
what curriculum do you do in the Shire of Bolton? geez!!
The Queens English
NOT
Scouse!
honest a god. my examiner was a lesbian. my instructor told me about her before the test, so I'd get on to it)
Anyway...test went well and i was pretty sure i'd passed. as we pulled in, she said i'm gonna pass you, but your mirrors weren't great. i thought she meant the mirrors were dirty, and was just about to say they weren't, when i realised she meant that i had not been looking thru my mirrors enough, especially approaching junctions. phew!!! passed!!
(Jem would have liked her - )
Missy Jem wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: What's nimps mean?
Anyhoo,
I started learning to drive when i was 17 but didn't like my instructor. He used to push my knee down for me to work the clutch and put his hand on mine when i was changing the gear stick, so i though he was a bit pervy.
Then my friend who was also a student of his, got a phone call asking her if she was in the shower and all sorts of stuff. Her number was ex-directory and only 15 people knew it. Then she recognised his voice. From then on i used to hide and not answer the door when he turned up for my lesson. I couldn't even speak to him to tell him i'd cancelled. Dirty perv!!
I only passed my test about 6 years later as i only needed the bus to work. Just been offered a job in Manchester City Centre and if i go for it, i can get rid of my car. That's a scary thought but think of all the money i'll have!
I'm a bloody good parker by the way, i can get where water can't!
where can't water get to?
It's a saying we have in these here parts, meaning i can park in very small spaces. Usually end up shunting somebody away
ok i need to know this stuff just in case i ever make my pilgrimage to the north of england.
Speaking of shunting..... when I was in chicago, I TWICE seen someone shunting the car in front.... First time was someone simply enlarging a parking spot....no body cared, not an eyelid batted, and both cars being US built (hollowed out of a single block of lead) no damage was done. the second time was as a van load of Homeboys backed up aong the street to make cat calls at our flautist Cara, literally running up against and then pushing another parked car.....they were just jumping out to harass her further (hopefully, as opposed to grabbing her) when myself and 7 or 8 other largish Irish chaps walked out from the shop behind her....there were fucking sonic booms as they left.
careful when parking. i have seen this happen more than once, when someone pulls into a seemingly empty parking space at pace, only to make contact, and cause considerable damage to the car alrady there. the uncosiderable bastard had pulled in so far that his car could not be seen, from the outside of the line of parked cars. :D
Missy Jem wrote: What were you doing in Chicago with a flautist...?
Ruining lunch for some American college students and drinking a lot.
Ronald Kirsch wrote: careful when parking. i have seen this happen more than once, when someone pulls into a seemingly empty parking space at pace, only to make contact, and cause considerable damage to the car alrady there. the uncosiderable bastard had pulled in so far that his car could not be seen, from the outside of the line of parked cars. :D
could be worse, could be a geezer sittin in a sinclair C5
A similar story of laziness for me. I originally did my theory and practical back in 2001 but failed on reversing around a corner. I actually reversed the car ok but wasn't "paying proper attention to each part of the road" or something, turned out to be a major fault. I haven't done much with driving since then and never really wanted a car while at uni because of the extra cash I'd need to run it.
I did my theory again (with the new hazard perception bit) last October and will do my second practical at some point this year. I definitely want the bloody thing out of the way this time.
Second time lucky eh?
GaryMac wrote:
frank smarra wrote: i got my licesne to drive at 32, never drove before, i love it
Would that be deemed a late start in the States Frank ? Thae car seems so part of U.S. culture / life
its a very late start here, people used to think i was lying when i told them i never drove a car in my life. i never really needed it in NYC the subway or bus can take you everywhere and they are for the most part reliable so i was never a necessity for me, i got the license so i could take roadtrips upstate or to Canada
I am really quite amazed! I thought ALL of you with few exceptions would/could drive! You learn something new...... and NO is the answer to the question...I can't.
GlasVegas wrote: At the ripe old age of 32 I've never had a single driving lesson. No real reason other than laziness. I would love to drive but cannae be arsed with the months of learning involved.
Anyone else in the same boat?
Me but I'm 25...
i know stacks of people older than me who can't drive. in liverpool or london or nyc you can get by without a car i suppose. but i also know loadsa people who drive without insurance. pray they don't get pulled or have an accident.
its freedom more than anything. like last year i drove to Penrith in the Last District. hated it coz the sun didn't shine, and was able to fuck off when i wanted.
(tart wasn't too happy though, when i left her to pack the tent up):p
I took lessons when I was sixteen, passed my test about three months after my seventeenth birthday and drove as often as I could after that. I destroyed my Dad's car a few months after passing my test. It wasn't my fault, but someone with more experience would have avoided the accident.
I'm still completely obsessed by cars and have quite a few of them. First thing Sunday I'm gonna get some more (depending on the lottery results, of course).
BIGINOIL wrote: I took lessons when I was sixteen, passed my test about three months after my seventeenth birthday and drove as often as I could after that. I destroyed my Dad's car a few months after passing my test. It wasn't my fault, but someone with more experience would have avoided the accident.
I'm still completely obsessed by cars and have quite a few of them. First thing Sunday I'm gonna get some more (depending on the lottery results, of course).
Yeah...You Europeans out there.don't forget the Euro Lotto tonight. £100m rollover.
i'll buy new order if i win.
I've been trying to learn for the past 18 months and I've already failed my test twice. I just get too nervous when I'm out on the road.
twist wrote: My parents could only afford the Model T Ford handed down form generation to generation because every generation was too poor to afford a new car. Hence, being the 18 of 30 children I never learned how to drive but I learned how to repair the car with empty soup cans and duct tape.
you're lucky. i inherited the family edsel.
