to find a man who coudlnt drive UTTERLy unattractive

[NotCod]

and rather pathetic

yadaydayd meddical expcetiosn etc

Swedes - eek!

My uncle has one that collapses down to become a kind of mobile biscuit tin. He is inordinately proud of it, and also sports facial hair.

Driving is definitely a life skill Pan. So is cooking.

Mine and dh's lives would be severely curtailed if we couldn't drive.

Dh's mother learned to drive at the age of 60 after her husband divorced her. He had never "let" her learn when they were married. Dh was chauffered to school

MIL was a terrible driver. I only let her drive me to waitrose once. She spotted a parking space and suddenly accelerated towards it at 60 mph. I had my hands over my face.

Dotto -

Apparently the fastest way to devalue your home is to park a caravan outside.

Camel-type caravan? Mmmmmmmmmm

Threadworm - welcome back - you've ditched the dubya? Phew.

NOTCOD - Everybody has a right to their opinion, you obviously think my family have a dull lifestyle because we don't drive.

Well, when we have friends/family visit us they often say they envy us our freedom, being so used to jumping on public transport on the spur of the moment, not worrying about parking + sitting in queues of traffic for miles on end! We manage to do loads, with none of the regimented planning that people assume comes with public transport. Dull is not how we, or anybody who knows us, would describe our lifestyle!

Plus our dc's friends are always asking to come out with us in school holidays because they know they'll get a train or bus ride, a novelty for most of them!

SWEDES - my dh is not middle management, he's senior with middle management reporting to him.

Now I consider you all to be very much behind the times for not understanding that caravans have been - for both urban and rural sophisticates - reclaimed ...

Oh yes onebat, those retro-modernist caravan drivers are sooooo attractive.

Onebat - you should make it more clear that your link will take people to images that they might find disturbing.

Threadworrm - that retro-modernist chap is very much more attractive than my beardy uncle.

It is NOT a life skill it is a choice and an added string to your bow.But I don't drive and it has had absolutely no effect on the quality of my life.You can live without it although it is useful like anything you learn in that mechanical way.I am sure there are many men who can drive who wouldn't know the first thing about being a good dad for instance or a communicative partner I see plenty of moans about such on this site.But of course as long as they drive??????My dp does drive but so what

Noddy - You have to acquire the skill to drive. It is a life skill and a choice.

NotCod - what are you going on about? I am so confused now. (But that could be delayed concussion.)

Onebat is right. Caravan snobbery is hopelessly last-century.

Iorek - Caravan as Toynbee metaphor or caravan as in Shoeburyness?

oh agrl called abby bumped me car

Ah, all is so clear now...

Did he have a white stallian though?

Delayed concussion Abby?

Is that from banging your head against a brick wall .............

I passed my test in Dec last year, before that dh was happy to take me anywhere. Were he not around I would use public transport or drive. I had no desire to drive.

I don't think my dh ever found it a hindrence.

Then I moved to Oz & needed to, everything being so much further away & it being so hot, I wasn't going to rely on public transport.

"I don't care what anyone says the other one, at times ends up ferrying them about or doing all the (tiring and boring) driving on long journeys"

We went on holiday at Easter, dh did ALL the driving, even tho I could drive. He likes to drive. So what's the big deal!

I think this would be a very different thread had the OP been a man & was complaining about woman not being able to drive!

I'm so depressed I missed this thread kicking off. Hilarious.

I love driving. I'm a tiger, hear me rooaaaar. Cars are boring though.

Well hello there.

Need a lift, Princess?

Onebat and her Man

I love that film. Got to love a woman who can play the trumpet too.

Triple tonguing...

she looks rather too self-actualized to be me, Threadie.