Community Chat

[chickenbutt]

It just hit me that, during my hs days and when I would have taken driver's ed in hs, that was FIFTY YEARS AGO!   Holy heck.

Stuff like that always freaks me out a bit.  Time flies when you're gettin' old!  

[PA Mom-mom]

@Anonymous032819  My Dad would take us all out  to practice one day a week once we turned 13. We used the parking lot of his workplace when it was closed. Earlier, we would practice backing the car in and out of the driveway. That's how we learned to use the mirror. Two of my neighbors are car guys, and they are very impressed with my mirror skills.

[PA Mom-mom]

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@Dinaki wrote:

Back in Ethiopia, my parents had a driver. When we were going on the weekends to our holiday house in Lake Langano, he was always teaching me to drive the car. I learned to drive at a young age.

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@Dinaki  My parents lived in Ethiopia near Lake Langano! Where did you live?

[deepwaterdotter]

From the high-school driving instructor as a regular class. 

[SeaMaiden]

I was a late bloomer....I did not start driving until I was 27 years old.  I kind of knew the basics from years of watching as a back seat driver.... I actually learned on a beat up datsun pickup my husband was driving..,.a stick shift....I graduated to a VW Bug stick shift after that. I drove for a couple years with no license....it was a very small town. Got away with it....SO STUPID  of me as I look back. Too late now.... Since the town only had one flashing red light....I did not think about it being illegal. Hardly any traffic. Still no excuse. Dumb things we do when young....

I got my LEGAL license to drive about 1983 when we moved to Seattle. I am a good driver...  I do not drive on the freeway....it scares me.  Better off safe than sorry. Just drive about where Iive.  Never have had a ticket in the 30 plus years driving where I live now. 

The area I did not do well on when I took my drivers test was parallel parking....still do not really know how.... but I never would park like that anyway!☺️

[kelshar]

My dad. Also, of course, a driver training instructor.

[DottieBlue]

My big sister taught me how to drive an automatic when we were in highschool.

Then after I got married, DH taught me how to drive a stick.  When I told a coworker, he exclaimed "Boy, your husband must have nerves of steel"!

[Dinaki]

@PA Mom-mom We were residing in Addis Abeba. Both of my parent were very well known in the capital.

Since you are famigliar with Addis, our home was in Haile Selassie Avenue just in front of Cinema Empire.

Our house is still there now days. During the Derg regime, our home became the main police station of the capital.

In Langano, our home was not far of Bekele Mola hotel back then.

Bekele Mola killed himself during that awafull regime as, the Derg was nationanlizing all properties.

[ScrapHappy]

My dad and driver's ed. in school.  My daughter will be learning to drive this year.  I told my husband he could teach her.

[proudlyfromNJ]

We had drivers ed in school. My Dad also had to teach me with the family car as it was a Volkswagen bus with the stick shift on the floor. The hardest part with the bus was stopping on a hill and then starting up again.