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

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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?

well I agree with perfect mother, because she's perfect

Unless it's a medical reason why they can't drive/use public transport and if they're always whinging needing lifts, then yes, this would get on my tits.

One of the mum's at my dd's school can't drive so her children only do activities that within walking distance/a bus ride away. Her husband can drive though so he'll pick the kids up from parties at weekends etc (depending on his work shifts). I've never heard her ask for a lift but I'd give her a lift like a shot. Probably as she doesn't put upon other people to make up for her not being able to drive.

Well they should bloody read it.
OP at least.

i can't drive - tried learning at 17 - was told i was a danger on the roads. this knocked my confidence a bit!!
i tried again at 21 but by that time i'd no confidence
i'd like to learn now, but it would cost a fortune. we already just make ends meet.

i walk or take the bus everywhere - so sorry if i am an inconvinience!!!!!

I can't drive, and am very dependant on my dp at the moment. We did live in London and had no need as close to tube and buses, but now we live in the middle of nowhere i'm stranded - there are very few buses, and they don't seem to go anywhere.

I don't think many women would choose this. I'm quite phobic about driving, i'm trying and having lessons and its taking all my willpower and more to keep trying. I wouldn't be able to afford it at all if it wasn't for a grant to pay for some lessons i got awarded for being a carer when my dp was sick and off work - and we literally couldn't get anywhere.

Alot of people are genuinely scared of driving, especially if they didn't learn young, they're frightened of trying and failing, and of doing it badly, and once you have children you can feel even more scared. It's a crap feeling, i know a couple of people in this situation - none of us are lazy or choose to be dependant, all of us feel we're shit at driving and will mess up.

I don't know if you're being reasonable, as i've never met the people you've described.

btw, didn't have time to read whole thread!

Ok I give in. Surrenders to onslaught of indiganation from people WHO WON'T READ THE THREAD!!!!!!

Your OP was a VAST and sweeping generalisation, guaranteed to annoy any non drivers.

had you elaborated in the first place, you wouldn't have had all these offended responses!

I didn't learn to drive for years. Once you've missed the boat at 17 (a period in my life when I was busy doing three A levels, studying for the Oxford entrance exam and playing two musical instruments to a fairly high standard - something had to give, and I wanted to get out of Norwich so hammering the academics seemed the way to go, frankly, not learning to drive) it's actually fairly hard to find a decent instructor. And Life took over. And driving, if you don't do it, is fecking terrifying, I think.

I did finally pass my test, but I was 40. (And 37 weeks pregnant.)

My OP states:

People who won't go anywhere alone.
People who don't use public transport
People who are always asking for favours.

AIBU in expecting people to read the OP?

It's the 'just bloody do it, the rest of us had to', that is annoying.

You have no idea why other people haven't just bloody done it, or why they continue to not bloody do it.

But well done you for having bloody just done it.

My dad doesn't/can't drive. I think he tried once near the beginning of their marriage, but I think the world is better off for m dad not driving a car .

He does get lifts from m mum, but I think she is fine about it .

'Just bloody do it'

OR

use public transport/walk/cyle etc etc. just don't rely on others forever for everything.

Conveniently paraphrased .

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

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?

Which reads as your opinion of non drivers as an entire group.

Agree with Boco. I did read the op and the thread but it's still worded in a way that will get people's back's up!!!

exactly PM.

But please don't do a U-turn or anything Smiley! (see, I can talk the talk, just not walk the walk...or whatever )

Is epilepsy a sufficient reason for you? Or am I tarred with your feeble brush?

In the OP:

so blinking dependent on others.

Always asking for favours.

Never going anywhere alone.

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

If you don't fall into these categories I'm not talking about you.

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has this thing kicked off yet?