to find a man who coudlnt drive UTTERLy unattractive

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and rather pathetic

yadaydayd meddical expcetiosn etc

I think, in the end, I knew in my heart of hearts that it was my not driving that was driving my choices, rather than the other way roudn. Which was a bit disempowering.

DP is lazy. Plus he has bad eyesight and is too vain to get glasses

I think god cod started this thread, to help us all forget about all the finance stuff in the news(and rocking horses)

Plus he'd be shit, quite frankly.

I wouldn't want to be driven by him

OK, you don't own a car. I can completely understand that. I am a born and bred Londoner and have only very recently started to think having a car is a necessity - never was when I lived, worked and socialised in central London.

But that is not a reason not to learn to drive. No driving licence is like...it's like...it's like ...it's just so lame.

yes i already discounted the utterly ludicrous london excuse

lol@Sheik. At least you're honest! None of this 'we are so environmentally friendly' nonsense.

it's like refusing to speak a foreign language when Abroad for fear of making an arse of oneself, MrsM.

I don;t want him driving my lovely car.

I love my car

lollll@onebatmother.

The not driving never worried me.

But I would have had problems with a dh who wasn't good at walking (excepting obvious medical reasons). You know, huffing and puffing just because it's a couple of miles to where you want to go. Making a fuss about going out "because it's raining". Slumping in front of the TV on his day off.

The way I see it, those of my male friends who have got cars and licenses have also gradually started to develop paunches... Most unattractive. To me, being able to climb a mountain is more sexy than slumping in a car seat any day.

i wouldn't want dp to drive my car either

1 - can afford it.
2 - lazy - quite possibly. Prefer to dial a taxi to get us from a-z in shortest possible time as opposed to to locating car in some distant parking space, lugging stuff to it, driving to nearest parking place to destination - probably a mile away, finding change for parking meter etc etc. Absolutely -will accept lazy.
3 - medically allowed. Though for years my (then healthy) Dad pretended he had a heart condition so he wouldn't have to drive people about so quite possibly aversion to driving is in genes.
4 -unadventurious. Would dispute this one. Have travelled all over the world NOT DRIVING. Experience enriched by stepping out of vacuum sealed bubble of comfort car and actually getting onto local buses/trains/boats and horror of horrors actually interacting with people who live (without cars) all over the world.
5 - environment/cadging lifts. This is a bug bear. People are always trying to offer us lifts to places in a pitying manner. Save your sympathy for someone who needs it - we don't. We're capable of getting to anywhere we need to get to without your help. If needs must we catch a cab - it's no big deal. The reality is we feel slightly sorry for all those who are incapable of finding their way to a corner shop without sat nav.

hatrick thank god you are here i was beginning to despair and my dp does drive but I think like you.It is a concern really that people consider it so vital because ut really isn't.I have travelled the world worked in cebtral london for 10 yrs and renovated 10 houses and I don't drive!

dp loves to read on the bus to work too (another excuse)

DP doesn't need to drive to work (we live 40 min walk from the centre of Bath where he works) but it would be handy for kid stuff at the weekend.

BUT there's no way he's driving my lovely car

Oh, sorry noddy, am tongue in cheek, really. There are lots of reasons not to drive. I think hte only sitch where I could, in truth, imagine it being a prob is where it disqualifies a dp/dh from doing his fair share of everything, consistently.

YABU

You have fallen for marketing wankery.

though having said that hatrick, lazy car-reliant man comes home a crucial 30 mins earlier, at suppertime/bathtime..

There's a bloke in our village, he's 50 something, single, lived with his mum until she died.

He can't drive and relies on all the old ladies in the village to ferry him around in their Renault Clios.

This is what I think of when I hear of men who can't drive.