The blogging team have a terrible confession to make. No, we have not been on luxury yachts trying to extract donations from russian oligarchs. Its worse then that. Neither of us can drive. Neither Carolyn or myself have ever had any desire to learn to drive, not through any hatred of the motor car or those who drive them but because we have never felt any particular need to. Carolyn says she has always been happy being driven about by her father when young, then by Mr FRost or getting about by train or bus. I have always found that public transport is adequate to my general needs and have never particularly had the confidence to get behind a wheel. There are enough temperamentally unsuitable people dpoing that already.
The problem seems to be that to some people you are not a fully paid up member of society unless you own a car. Carolyn return to working as a bank nurse last week and says that she has been very annoyed at the number of people she has met in the last week who seem horrified that she is a non driver. Perhaps if more people who have little interest or limited abilities when it comes to driving resisted the social pressures to get behind the wheel there would be less accidents and fewer deaths and injuries.
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Yes, you've hit the nail on the head (as you often do!) - if you don't conform to everyone's idea of the "norm", you are considered to be "odd". Personally, I stick to the car because public transport can be unreliable. Having spent many hours waiting on station platforms (mostly in the south east) for good old high speed British Rail to do their stuff - "we regret to announce the cancellation/late running of blah, blah, blah........." - I prefer to drive now I have reached a certain age!
Yes, and thats the main problem. Rubbish public transport. Why this country seems to have such a problem with public transport as other european nations do not is probably a topic for several pages.
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