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?

Awww, TC...I'm going to float off to bed now on a wave of (non environmentally damaging) happiness

Martha - everytime we post together I love you a little more each time!!

Top Cat! The most effectual Top Cat! Whose intellectual close friends get to call him T.C. Providing it's with dignity.

Me too. You are delightfully lovely

I will be singing myself off to sleep with that now, edam

LOL Edam! x

I actually need a smiley that is a winking and smiling and blowing a kiss all at the same time!

LOL, sorry smileys!

I think it can be just as irritating to see someone like my neighbour who drives literally everywhere. She will drive her children to school which is just a 5 minute walk away and drive to corner shop. I have never seen her walk anywhere, I don't even know what her son's pushchair looks like. It pains me to see her 2 sons becoming fatter by the day as they do not walk anywhere either!

And yes I can drive! Just like to walk too!

That's alright. Don't mind me.

Mumfor1 come and join my thread! Also in AIBU

Oh there's a whole anoter thread on the go for just that Mumfor1.

and everyone agrees with that.

i failed my test five times, and used to feel miserable becuase i couldnt drive.
what annoys me more than the people who dont learn to drive, are the ones who pass theri test first time, and then refuse to drive.
wtf?
after finally passing my test on the sixth go, with two babies in the back seat, dsil, {not] phones me up, asking me to pick her up, drive her to her dd's secondary school to pick her up, then drive them home. i also had to pick up my own ds1 up from school during this time. she had passed her test more than a decade ago. but lazy sod wont drive.
then theirs her sister. she probly passed three decades ago, gets her dd to drive her everywhere. or sits at home.

smileys, just found it!

It is becoming an obsession between me and dh watching her! 'she is using car again' 'she paid to park just 10 mins walk away' blah blah..one day I will let her tyres down!

Smileys: Yup. Mind you, that's half the fun of the Interweb: start an argument and watch all the people who disagree with you go bananas.. then either feel smug about being right or crossly admit (if only to self) that you might have learned something. Then leap happily back into the fray elsewhere...

I don't drive and nor does my boyfriend. However, he really can't, he isn't obviously disabled but he has epilepsy. I just have slow focusing vision, very poor reaction time and problems telling my left from my right. However, I do use public transport or walk, and most of the lifts I get are from my mum, I'm reluctant to accept lifts if I feel they;ll take the person too far out of their way. I only use taxis for setting off on holiday - Heathrow or Victoria for Gatwick Express, or for buying items which are too big to carry home on the bus rather than wait for delivery - eg the computer I'm using now.

Oh Smiley, I just want to hand you a huge drink and let you go and lie down in a darkened room. If I read another thread where someone says 'I've only read the original post but...' or they think you've insulted them when you've clearly excluded them from your rant.... my head will explode. I don't know anyone who doesn't drive and expects lifts but if I did it would really annoy me. However I remember my dad used to get really peed off about taking me and 3 mates everywhere as a teenager because it always fell to him and one other dad to do it despite the fact that all the other dads plus the mums could drive and had 2 cars. (My mum couldn't so we only had 1) It's all about give and take isn't it really, I prob wouldn't mind giving people lifts a) if they didn't EXPECT it and b) they did things for me in return.

(Gets mop and bucket ready for wiping brains off walls)

Haven't read the whole thread, but in response to the op I think people's choice whether to drive or not, but if someone chooses not to learn to drive then they shouldn;t rely on other people for lifts.

Only read OP. I don't FIU that people don't learn to drive but find it bloody odd and personally, couldn't bear the dependency issues which go with having 3 kids and not being able to jump in a car whenever I feel like it.

Oh, and it took me 4 times to pass my test and I also don't mind giving lift - do this a lot actually, its just the lack of personal freedom I couldn't bear.

boco and fimbo...and i must be your long-lost triplet!

have actually passed my drivig test (4th attempt) many moons ago. but when i moved to london just used tube all the time. now haven't driven "properly" for 10 years (only in country lanes). now have got 3 kids - actually manage fine as walk/use public transport and never ask for lifts.

but a confident driver finds it hard to understand a nervous driver's overwhelming fear. ie: "I'll cause an accident and kill my children..."

and now, of course, we're the proud owners of a bradybunchmobile...will i ever get behind the wheel of that? the phrase cold day in hell springs to mind..

ho-hum. off to get a bus.

Think you have to look at the individual circs....don't condemn all who pass their test and don't drive now. I do drive but have weeks when I can't due to a chronic health condition and certain meds I have to take which muck up my concentration (blackouts etc), I do my best on public transport etc but have to ask for lifts sometimes. Drives me barmy cos I can drive but have to give up my independence during these times, but can't be helped.
most people have a good reason for not driving/not being able to - life's too short to get mad about this stuff.

I only started driving last year. I wasn't lucky enough to have parents paying for lessons when I was younger, left home at 16, and it took years before I could pay for lessons. I am glad I did it, and love to drive now, but it is not cheap, and can be a daunting thing to embark on, so I would never call a non-driver feeble myself.

agree with compo et al...but mym mum bugs the hell out of me, she often used to make appointments on the other side of town, in rush hour, and assume that i'd take her. she has no awareness of the time issue. yes, i have a car, but i dont want to spend an hour stuck in traffic, on your behalf!

BUT, am glad she doesnt drive, she'd be a liability on the road.

yes you're being unreasonable. If they ask you for lifts you can always say no.

I didn't drive for years - too poor at first then didn't need a car in London. Sometimes people offered lifts and without that there were places I couldn't have afforded to visit. Since I've learnt to drive I'm happy to give other people lifts. What goes round come round.

ffs why should anyone be expected to drive if they don't want or need to? Don't forget it is expensive to learn and expensive to own and run a car.

IMHO some of the lazy feckers who DO drive should take a leaf out of my book and walk to school, the shops, the doctors, the library, the park, or catch a train, instead of sitting in their cars jamming up the roads etc etc etc.