To feel irratated by perfectly able adults who will not learn how to drive??

[SmileysPeoples]

They are so blinking dependent on others.

Always asking for favours.

Never going anywhere alone.

Just bloody do it, the rest of us had too.

(the ones I know also won't use public transport ffs)

Oh and the ones I know are women whose husbands even have to take them to the ahirdressers.

How feeble are they??

Am I alone in this irratation?

i would be annoyed if they were poncing lifts and moaning about it. but i dont drive and am perfectly fine to use public transport unless dh is home in which case he drives!

Personally I reserve my irritation for the planners who put so much out of reach of people without cars so that they HAVE to rely on others if they want to get there. So many places are inaccessible via public transport.

Oh I couldn't be doing with that southeast.

To all the indignant: see exemptions.

Many of you fit those so can save your indignation.

And why just becuase I can drive do you presume I drive to the corner shop or to school.
I do neither.

oh yes, even though I don't drive yet, but I want to. MIL doesn't drive, has to be ferried around, taken to Tesco really gets my goat. DHs half brother is 30 and also cannot be bothered to learn to drive, nor his wife so they cart their kids from the Isle of Wight by ferry and bus or train, then rely on DH to ferry the whole brood around. Ex didn't learn until he was 22 either. Oooooh, it bugs me

Unbelievable that in these days of supposedly increased environmental awareness, someone dislikes non drivers!

Sigh.

See exemptions.

If green and cylce/walk/use public transport I have no beef.

well, the worst ones aren't eco-concious or whatever, they just expect you to drive a 50 mile round trip to take them to tesco, lazy fecks.

It's the reliance on others I find irratating.

If you don't do that. Fine.

My mum is always on at me to drive because she sees lots of friends completely dependant on their husbnds to take them places. What she doesn't take into account that I live in a town where everythign is within walking distance. She lives in the countryside where public transport is shite and you have to walk 2 miles to get to the nearest shop.
She says if I drove I could go and see her more (she lives 3 hours drive away). My sister drives and lives in the same place as my mum. She never drives to come and see me

read your OP

YABU FFS, i dont drive and i never ask for favours I WALK!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know someone who plays the double bass and doesn't drive.

Needless to say, I don't offer him lifts to concerts very often

SP - I have seen excemptions and now feel able to agree with you
Friend at Mother and Toddles often gets her dh to pick her up and she lives just round the corner Her mum also drives her round loads of places which at her age is quite shocking

Am not a natural driver and haven't ever really needed to drive so haven't pushed myself. Non drivers should move to a great city like London, away from uncivilised places without pavements or buses.

Jones, can he not just fit wheels to the case and a little outboard motor?!

I don't drive because I am nervous of people who drive like dp. I have well and truly lost my 'no fear'! Aside from that I can't afford the lessons or the car. However, I hate asking people for lifts or depending on others so if I can't there by public transport I don't go!! You can pretty much get anywhere by public transport these days if you try hard enough!

AND another thing, so what if my DP runs me places, he likes to do things for me, cos he loves me (poking tongue out emoticon)

Exactly QP. (Hello BTW)

The poeple I'm talking about still travel around in cars, just driven by other people. So that doesn't help the environment.

And one I know gets her Dh to take her to 4 different supermarkets a week in the car as she likes different ones for different things.

How Green.

LOL PerfectMother

Smiley, given your exemptions I agree, but your title and OP are going to put backs up with people who don't read the entire thread

Smiley, I didn't presume. I was 'generalising'.......

yep, money the major factor is learning to drive for me - dad bought me lessons for my 18th but the instructor was so painfully slow, I learned not alot in the 10 odd hours. At £25 ish an hour, and BSM wanted me to take them 2 hours at a time, I could probably stretch to one a month which would be pointless. Worked out it's cheaper to save up & go on a crash (no pun intended) course.

agree totally smileys, my mil moans that she never see's dd. she doesn't work, can't drive and yet won't jump on the train for the 40min journey to where we live!

thank God for that Compo

Please direct any other apopletic posters in that direction in my absence!

If they're trying to cadge lifts off you, just say no. If they're dependent on other folk, tis up to the other folk.

Unless they're using you, why let it bother you? They may be frightened of learning, or they may like being driven around.

Rebel ponders being chauffeured around by DH all the time...lovely idea, then comes back to reality - chance would be a fine thing.....he works too many bleeding hours.

Now, who should drive tonight? (we've got a rare night out, lol).