To think it's horse shit when people say they don't need to drive

[pleasemothermay1]

Until you need to meet up anywhere that's not on there doorstep that is

I well annoyed supposed to be meeting my friend who always says she dosent need to drive as she gets about fine

However trying to meet at at 12.45 to go swimming and the pool is to far for her to get there and back for the school run if she drove it would be a 15 minute drive I then suggested soft play near her house howeve the bus dosent run there is on a industrial estate And she would have to walk 35 minutes before she even got to the bus stop gurr

It's the same every time even if we're meeting up with out the kids in the evening unless she able to get a lift then she can't come

Out so you don't need to drive unless the place is not on yur frigging door step gurr rant over I can understand if you live in London but we live in the sticks

[LiviaDrusillaAugusta]

There's a perfect example upthread 'but how do you get to IKEA?' Not 'how do you shop for big items'. Lots of people don't go to IKEA

I think some posters live in a middle class echo chamber where everyone they meet lives exactly the same lifestyle as them, and the idea of any deviation from this seems to blow their minds!

[Popularcontrarian]

Haven't read the whole thread (sorry), but this kind of behaviour angers me.
I know quite a few people who insist they don't need to drive/have a car and then constantly look for lifts all the time. Gives me the rage.

[goose1964]

I can't drive so manage perfectly,have two legs that work .

[Iusedtobecarmen]

I cant drive and i dont really need to.
Live in a major city and public transport really good.
All the big supermarkets nearby. I can get to school and work easily.
If i was going out id get a taxi anyway.
I never ask for lifts. I dont really like favours either. Its not doing me a favour anyway. Im choosing to walk.
We do have a carand yes it makes life easier. Easy to get to places in a gurry sometines. Good for big shops etc. Without a car id get a taxi (max £5) ince a week or have home delivery.
Having said all of that i need to drive asap(recently tried and found it very hard). I need to drive to get to OTHER places outside of my city. Seaside countryside etc. Those things are harder. I cant book a holiday with dcs and dog and a million suitcases and travel by train to a rural place. Well i could but not practical.
Dh can drive but i would like to go off on my own ocasionally.
Living rurally is different but most peiple who say they need a car are just lazy. Needing isnt the same as it being helpful.

[Iusedtobecarmen]

Realise ive contradicted myself
I dont need to drive asap. Id like to learn asap just so i can explore more if UK and go further afield

[corythatwas]

Considering that it is well known that car driving is a serious environmental problem, and a major contributor to asthma mortality- why, oh why is the onus on the non-driver to get driving rather than on the driving friends to think of joint activities which do not require driving???

All of my group of friends lived within walking distance of each other. The closest swimming pool was within walking distance, the second closest swimming pool was in the city centre, easily accessible through a regular bus service. There was a perfectly good local park within a few minutes walking distance, and a large common served by a regular bus. And yet every outing seemed to be somewhere that was only accessible by car.

I would never have needed to be a selfish lift-claiming nuisance if the rest of the group had been prepared to think out of the box on shared activities. But somehow it's always the non-driver who is expected to keep up, not the other way round.

[ArcheryAnnie]

Considering that it is well known that car driving is a serious environmental problem, and a major contributor to asthma mortality- why, oh why is the onus on the non-driver to get driving rather than on the driving friends to think of joint activities which do not require driving???

This, this, a thousand times this.

Plus it's just so boring if every single damn activity has to be preceeded by 40 mins in a car. (And when you have 40 mins in a car back home afterwards.)