QUOTE(kerioboe @ Jan 18 2007, 10:07 PM)

QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Jan 18 2007, 04:03 PM)

My driving was hideous today, I've just been bad for months, I never get anywhere, and feel such a fraud. I don't do as much practice as I should due to school work. I've lost all confidence in it.
Hi Nicki,
I learnt to drive when I was 17 and hated it. I passed my driving test the second time (the day before my eighteenth birthday) and fairly soon after that went to university where I didn't have access to a car.
After I'd finished my degree I moved to France and swapped my English driving licence for a French one (you can do this without having to prove you know how to drive on the other side of the road) and was even less confident than I had been in England. While my university friends saved up and bought cars, I saved up and bought ... a piano.
I still don't have a car. My partner does but I hardly ever drive it. I think the last time was about four years ago when he was in hospital. I go everywhere on public transport (if it is too far to walk) and the local supermarket will deliver your shopping for free if you spend over 100 Euros (which is easy enough when you're shopping for four). Twenty years ago people used to think it was strange not to want a car, these days people tend to think I am particularly environmentally-conscious.
What I'm trying to say is that you can live perfectly well without a car and that if in the future you find you really need to learn to drive this will probably give you sufficent motivation to take the test. For almost twenty years I have been telling myself that if/when I need to drive regularly I will have a few lessons to give myself confidence but in fact am quite happy not driving.
One last anti-car argument...
A colleague of mine worked out with her husband that it was actually cheaper to rent a car for the holidays than to have one permanently since they live in the centre of a town with a good public transport system.
I guess, it is true. I just think it is a very useful skill to have, and after uni, I'd probably have to pay for my lessons. If I came back down here, where I live now after uni, then I would really need a car, as we're semi rural and the public transport is OK, but doesn't go to that many places, so I'd be restricted jobswise
QUOTE(PianoSecrets-x @ Jan 19 2007, 11:55 AM)

Whooo! All of my exams have finished!
I'm freeeeeeeeeee!!

YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Well done you. Mine start (but end too!) on Monday