How Long Have You Been Driving?

SilverRoxy said:
Deaf people are allowed to drive with driver's licenses in America. I don't know about Pakistan.
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Wow That's cool, i thought they re not allowed in any country, Thanks man...
i gotta ask around here about it
 
Got permit when I was 14 and motorcycle permit when I was 15. That makes it 30 years that I've been driving legally. I have driven little before 14. (shhh don't tell anyone)
 
Qaiser said:
Wow That's cool, i thought they re not allowed in any country, Thanks man...
i gotta ask around here about it
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I think in most countries in Europe deaf people can drive too. Am sure there are still a few countries that don't/won't allow deaf people to drive though- but no idea which ones without searching.
 
Secretblend said:
Got permit when I was 14 and motorcycle permit when I was 15. That makes it 30 years that I've been driving legally. I have driven little before 14. (shhh don't tell anyone)
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Same here, got permit at 14 then driver license at 15 in Ms. When I move to MD, to get driver license in this state is 16 and I was still 15, my father told me I had to wait till 16 to get new MD license but I can still drive in between time. so that will be 43 years in driving experience.
 
Maisie<below long> -sorry - don't know how to get the exclamation point at beginning - why are you scared? I learned to drive very late myself. It was a requirement for my first significant post-college job, where I was a case manager. I worked with people with cognitive/intellectual disabilities/severe LD and on the severe end of the Spectrum. I had to make home visits across the county in my state. When I was first hired there, my husband, my dad or sometimes another case worker would drive me around, sometimes even taking me AND the client if the consumer needed to go to the store or something. But to keep my job I had to learn. I was pretty scared to. I didn't learn in high school as I was really shy/awkward and somewhat behind my peers. My LD <un-diagnosed in high school> also made it more challenging. I failed my road test twice. But I kept trying. I was about 22/23 then, somewhere in there. During the adult driver's ed course I never learned to drive on the freeway<interstate>. About 4 years ago we moved to a rural area outside the city where I was born and raised. We hadn't planed to move out so far but the housing/mortgage debacle happened around the time we were trying to sell <for 2 Summers we tried> and so in the end conditions of the situation forced us to look further out and find something quickly. From where we now live to the city it's about 45 minutes to an hour or more depending on weather/traffic - IF you take the back roads and not the interstate. If you take the interstate, the time cuts down to to between about half an hour to an hour, on average, depending on where you're trying to get. When we first moved out here, my folks still lived back in the city. Then circumstances happened and I needed to get a job and what came up was a job back in the city about 15 minutes from where we USED TO live. I still hadn't learned to drive on the freeway but these trips back and forth were just....toooooo long. One day I was on my way to meet someone for a educational dog-related event. She lived back in the city- she was going to drive us to this event which was actually PAST where I now lived - but I didn't know how to get there. So she wanted to go too - it was at the vet clinic where she goes for her dogs. sO we decided she would drive us. So I was on my way to meet her<taking the back roads> and was stopped by squads blocking the road. They were directing traffic off the road, toward the freeway. There was no way to continue on the direction I was going without taking the freeway. I'd NEVER driven on the freeway though I'd been a passenger on the route I would end up taking <freeway> many many times. So I took deep breath and plunged - pretty literally - onto the freeway/interstate. Glad no one was behind me. I got off as soon as I recognized on exit and knew I could continue on taking the back roads, as I'd planned. It was scary - but I had to do it. Put on my "big-girl" pants, ya know...I said to myself - I'm doing it for Cagney - a dog I once knew, who's still in my heart.....my heart dog, my Rottie...the talk was relating to that breed and Cagney's elderly sister would be at the talk. I had to go. So I went.
 
iMaisie said:
I don't drive.

I'm too scared to :tears:
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My mom never learned how to drive and I know some people that don't drive . I don't blame you for being scared there are a lot of aggressive crazy drivers on the road
today ! I use like to drive but not as much today b/c drivers are too rude and there so much more traffic to deal with .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My mom never learned how to drive and I know some people that don't drive . I don't blame you for being scared there are a lot of aggressive crazy drivers on the road
today ! I use like to drive but not as much today b/c drivers are too rude and there so much more traffic to deal with .
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I didn't learn until I was 22 (I had to buy a car first). My mom didn't learn until she was in her 40's. My paternal grandmother learned when she was about 60 years old. My maternal grandmother never learned (good thing--when she rode in the car over the big bridge she always closed her eyes).

Between my PD and the horrible traffic here I drive very little now; only close to home.
 
Reba said:
I didn't learn until I was 22 (I had to buy a car first). My mom didn't learn until she was in her 40's. My paternal grandmother learned when she was about 60 years old. My maternal grandmother never learned (good thing--when she rode in the car over the big bridge she always closed her eyes).

Between my PD and the horrible traffic here I drive very little now; only close to home.
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LOL! That is good thing your paternal grandmother never drove .:) My mom was only 5'2" and she could hardly see over the dashboard and she hated wearing her seatbelt b/c it cut into her . Yeah I have trouble driving long distance now and like to stay close to home too.
 
My mom also learned to drive - later than I did <I was in my early 20's. She learned to drive because she had me - my folks were told she woulddn't be able to have kids and so they gave up. I came un-expectedly and when my mom was late30's/almost 40's <in there somewhere> She had to learn to drive because I had a lot of physical and other issues and she needed to take me to appt's.
 
17 years old to current....... I will going to get CDL CLASS A this fall and heavy equipment operator training.
 
When I was 10 (65 years ago), my granddad let me steer a Farmall AA tractor as he fed hay to cattle and sheep from the wagon. Four years later, I got a provisional license at 14 to drive to high school in town and back to the farm (of course I drove other places but never got caught :whistle:). Got a full Montana driver's license at 16--59 years ago last Thursday--and bought a 1938 Chevy coupe for $100. Thought I was soooo cool. :cool2:
 
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