How old was you when you learned to drive? (page 3)

liquidsky

I lived out in the sticks too. I could'nt wait to get my liscense so I could get the hell outta there. I got it as soon I turned 16.

Skeptic

As usual, I analyse everything to death.

I come from a farming community, so most kids learn the bare basics of driving a standard at five. This enables them to back a truck up to a building. I always thought that backing up a truck close to but not hitting a building was a weird choice for a first time driving skill. On the other hand, the building will stop the truck if something goes wrong!

Very soon, the kid is driving the truck across the farm at a crawl. As soon as he/she is old enough to reach the pedals, the kid is plowing fields with a tractor.

Being the youngest, I was spared from that until my body developed enough that I could actually see properly, instead of peeking through the steering wheel!

Richard

berten

I was 21 when I learned to drive and just because my family insisted on it so that I could work in

the familybusiness.I failed two times on the tests,third time I succeeded in getting that dreaded licence...

AlanF

I were 16, Brummie.

Don't worry too much about crashing into the car ahead. Avoiding it is easy enough as long as you pay attention. If you see that you're coming up too fast, step on the brake, but not so hard that you hear screeching sounds. If you think you can't stop in time, try to steer around the car. Failing that, stomp on the brake, close your eyes and hope for the best.

AlanF

Warrigal

Stole my dad's car at 14 and got it back unscratched before he had to go to work in the morning. Got my drivers license at 16 shortly followed by my motorcycle endorsement. I've driven everything from a motorcycle to a 40 foot bus.

I've soloed 5 airplanes and never bothered to get a pilots license though I passed the written exam on the first try. By the time it came to take my flight test; my husband had the plane sold. Drat!

Brummie

QCA1...that post was hilarious! bwahahah

Eman - 1, I DO have 2 heads, its a male thing. 2, it IS impossible to find a quiet brummie (Though I seem to have been going through an isolation phase over the last 2 months). 3, give me time, its a dead cert future event.

Hamas - thanks for the English lesson, but in brumm it is said "ow old wos yo win yo lerned ta droive"...you aint to far away from brum are you?

BT you can bet your bottom dollar that I'm already scared at the thought of meeting a lorry down the country lanes...I have thought this through regular.

nightwarrior I will be looking into the theory test shortly, is it hard? If I had learned years ago I would have got away without having to do it

Sentinel, sorry your dad refused to let your mom drive, even worse that he put her down instead of encouraging her to go ahead and drive with confidence, no doubt he was proud of you though he didnt express it verbally.

gots to fly, am at work....

Thanks Francios, L-sky, scep, berten, alanF, warrigal.

Brummie

mouthy

I was never allowed to drive when I was a JW( Obeyed my husband-submissive wife...) so when he died I learned to drive I was 58 years old.......I passed first time.... The only thing I cant do is parollal park.... But the day I took my test I prayed "Please God let me pass & I will use the car to preach more--"--I wasnt DF yet!!!! Hey! I parked so good on the test ( Parrelled ?) You would have thought I had been doing it for years I have NEVER done it since- I look a right old nut when I try also- Have to give up & go look for another spot....Then the BORG DF me!!!!! Ha! HA! You see you dumbells! you lost out on a magazine seller .......( this is for the Elders reading this site)

neyank

I drove a car when I was 14.

But don't tell anyone ok?

neyank

Brummie

my lips are sealed neyank!

Thanks mouthy, 58! thats an inspiration

brumm

CC Ryder

Hey Brummie, I was 15 when I started to learn. I got my liscence on my sixteenth birthday. Two weeks later I was permitted to drive for my first time to school. My parents told me to go to school alone and come home alone. No passengers! Going wasn't a problem, no one knew I was going to drive that day. A couple friends asked for a ride home. I dropped two of my friends off and only had one more to go and I was home free..my parents will never know...well...I got one block from dropping my last friend off and some tapes we were playing fell on the floor. both of us started to lean forward and pick them up. When I lifted up, all I saw was two big red flashing lights from a dead stop school bus...OOPS..Thank God I was following it up hill for at least a couple minutes so I was going slow. I still crashed into it. There were about fifteen or more 10 year old girls on the bus. They all stuck there heads out the window shouting how stupid I was. Bus...Nothing. My mothers car...Crunched left fender. My father made me pay for and install a new fender and headlight. Moral of the story....Don't worry Brummie...it sounds like you won't have to deal with too many school buses where you live. You'll do fine!

CC

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