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17. Living where I do, driving at all is an unnerving experience

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #16)

Mon May 13, 2013, 05:23 PM

May 2013

I take trains or planes if it's a trip over 100 KM. If I have to play life and death gladiator games, I want proper training and intel, or I'm not playing. I didn't take German driver's ed, and so don't have a license to kill.

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Little Old Lady from Pasadena, move over! [View all] DFW May 2013 OP

This is no laughing matter lunatica May 2013 #1

In some parts of Europe, they issue a driver's license for life DFW May 2013 #3

Yes it is. A HERETIC I AM May 2013 #18

Yeah, just like someone falling and breaking something lunatica May 2013 #19

Oh, please. A HERETIC I AM May 2013 #20

You're the one who interjected yourself lunatica May 2013 #24

LOL..."Tag, you're it" eh? A HERETIC I AM May 2013 #27

If this had happened to my mom... pipi_k May 2013 #25

How sad that she couldn't process the information Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #2

I hope, too, that he convinces her to give up driving DFW May 2013 #4

Exactly. Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #5

Some of them pipi_k May 2013 #21

Let me know when she'll be passing through... Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #23

my brother and I took away our mother's keys BillStein May 2013 #6

It's not easy to admit your driving days are over DFW May 2013 #13

Some buddies and I were returning from a weekend in Connecticut to our home in... MiddleFingerMom May 2013 #7

PA to VA is a little different DFW May 2013 #8

Yeah, though nothing in the article would lead one to the definite conclusion of... MiddleFingerMom May 2013 #9

Her "distracted" excuse would have raised a flag or two with me. DFW May 2013 #11

I had a Miles Davis Sketches of Spain CD trance me out once olddots May 2013 #10

It will be especially unpleasant for others DFW May 2013 #12

"Well, my GPS sez this is the interstate entrance ramp!" struggle4progress May 2013 #14

I don't have one DFW May 2013 #15

I don't have one either. But if I had one, I'd still check a map for a long trip. struggle4progress May 2013 #16

Living where I do, driving at all is an unnerving experience DFW May 2013 #17

You're not kidding!!! pipi_k May 2013 #22

Using my GPS is an adventure. In_The_Wind May 2013 #26