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to find a man who coudlnt drive UTTERLy unattractive

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NotCod · 30/09/2008 14:52

and rather pathetic

yadaydayd meddical expcetiosn etc

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Threadworrm · 02/10/2008 12:11

Two shunts! Have Channel 4 made a documentary about you yet?

onebatmother · 02/10/2008 12:12

I'v had two shunts and an unspecified number of prangs, so it was the late-night C5 I'm afraid.

onebatmother · 02/10/2008 12:13

Please, someone tell me to fuck off.

Threadworrm · 02/10/2008 12:15

How do I cope?
I do that thing that arm-round-headrest men do when they see someone reversing:

'Come on, comeon, plenty of room, plenty of room. Whoa! Whoa, stop there, NOW, back up a bit'

Cappuccino · 02/10/2008 12:16

there

put her out of her misery, poor thing

Swedes · 02/10/2008 12:18

Cappy - I didn't realise you were wearing Heelies.

Cappuccino · 02/10/2008 12:19

no Swedes I went and fetched the car

luckily it was parked outside because dh was not driving it, and thus is not, at this time of the day anyway, sexy in any way whatsoever

Elasticwoman · 02/10/2008 12:22

I have several women friends with dhs who can't drive.

One I don't fancy because he is too skinny, although lovely person in every other respect.

Another I don't fancy because he allows his wife to collect him from station/bus stop/work in the car, leaving their ds age 10 alone in the house, when he (the dh) could easily walk or get himself home.

Another I don't fancy because it has never occurred to me to fancy him but now you mention it he is quite fanciable.

MamaG · 02/10/2008 12:22
NotCod · 02/10/2008 12:26

god i MUIST ring abby abotu that cr prang

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onebatmother · 02/10/2008 12:27

lol!!
Threadie's guiding-in
Cappie's roadkill
Swedes Heelies
elasticwoman's new affair

hahahaha

now I AM off.

Swedes · 02/10/2008 12:29

It's OK if neither of you drive. BUt if one of you doesn't drive it might result in an unhealthy imbalance that gets addressed elsewhere. I'd have to charge for trips at the going commercial taxi rate.

NotCod · 02/10/2008 12:29

if abbys phone continues to be off i will have to ring the local shcools i think.. i haev evidence of her handwriting

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onebatmother · 02/10/2008 12:33

Good lord Cod you saw AbbyMN driving away from the scene of an RTA ??

onthepier · 02/10/2008 18:17

Neither myself nor my dh drive + we have two school age dc's. My dh did pass his test though (back in the 80's at the age of 20!), but has never wanted to drive since.

We both use public transport + taxis, + have deliberately picked a very central area to live in.

It doesn't hamper our lifestyle at all, + we don't rely on other people. We combine buses, taxis, trains + cycling which works for us.

I definitely don't find my dh unattractive because of not driving, + if anybody questions him on it he replies that he earns more than enough to pay for transport any time we need it. To be honest I've never been stranded anywhere in bad weather with dc's or late at night, unable to afford a taxi!

If he's offered lifts he always turns them down, as I do because we've always made our own arrangements!

I've heard it said that people see male non-drivers as "wimpish". That certainly doesn't apply to my dh, he's head of his department at work + if his staff need back up on anything, he'll go straight to the top + sort it out for them. He hasn't lost an argument with Senior Management yet, to be honest he's not a person that many would argue with!!

Swedes · 02/10/2008 20:24

Onthepier - is your husband in middle management?

MrsJohnCusack · 02/10/2008 21:03

what about those that CAN drive but won't/don't

I"ve given up. It is a proper phobia it seems but it's farking annoying

Elasticwoman · 02/10/2008 21:21

Just because some one is fanciable doesn't mean I fancy them.

If I fancied all the fanciable men I saw I would be Phwoarn out.

onebatmother · 02/10/2008 21:49

calm down elasticwoman! No-one doubts your chastity

Swedes, you are a bad lady

But yes, middle-management brings us neatly back to slip-on shoes, driving-gloves (the English ones) and glove-compartment sweet tins, in a rather satisfying completion of the thematic ring-road along which we have, in convoy, been motoring; some of us on cruise-control, others tail-gaiting rather aggressively.

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IorekByrnison · 02/10/2008 21:58

onebat

NotCod · 02/10/2008 21:59

lol at swedes
sorry onepier you r lifetyl sounds dull.

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bamzooki · 02/10/2008 22:06

OMG - have just found this thread and have properly pmsl. Funniest in a long time.
Esp @ UQD for letting himself get wound up by Cod.
Needs to be in the archives with gold embossed label.

boarderb · 02/10/2008 22:08

My husband doesn't drive, I do. It's a bit of a pain. I think he's refused to learn because he wants to piss his parents off, which works. None of my friends have non-driving DHs. I just shrug and roll my eyes when it comes up...and I wouldn't give him hell about it in public. But I give him plenty hell when he criticizes my driving, or cringes/stiffens when we go round a corner too fast. I have been known to drive a BIT dangerously in order to freak him out. What a bitch!

muddleduck · 02/10/2008 22:08

Would have to divorce DH if he ever did the arm-over-headrest thing. Would mean that I really had married my father

Swedes · 02/10/2008 22:19

Can we talk about caravans?

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