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[besubversive]

To and from Elizabethtown:

Christ's Home Office. Jesus' HQ? No, I guess it's just the main office of Christ's Home for Children. Also, Transport for Christ. Mobile Chapels, a bunch of them. Churches on sixteen wheels. Heals on wheels? Kneels on wheels? Tills on wheels? Religious zeals on wheels? Ooh, really reaching now.

I want a pig and an alpaca and a sheep, and I want them to be best friends.

Saturday, I lunched with Megan, a friend I hadn't seen in a while. We gabbed for hours. She kindly taught me to play chess. That takes care of one item of the List of Things To Do Before I Die. When I got home, I did a whirlwind cleaning of my bedroom and a bit later, Megan came over with a bottle of wine. We watched Fur: The Diane Arbus Story (awesome) and then listened to records, mostly Heart.

Hey, when you find out that someone in their mid-20's (or beyond) does not know how to drive, does it change your opinion of them at all? (And I don't mean city people who choose to bike or use PT, or someone who has a condition like epilepsy that keeps them from being able to drive. I strictly mean folks who just chose not to learn or not to get a license at the culturally traditional age to do so.)

Comments

20 something + no car

[pillowfool.livejournal.com]

I don't think that it really changes my opinion of people when I find out that they're 20+ and don't drive. mostly, it just surprises me. I couldn't wait to get my license so that I could get out and go. sometimes I still do that. I just get in my car and drive really fast while listening to music at the top of my lungs. and it always surprises me that someone would opt not to do that. :::shrugs::: maybe that's just me though.

[go-team-venture.livejournal.com]

A llama will protect goats from wolves.

[besubversive.livejournal.com]

Oh good! I guess I should get a goat, too.

[go-team-venture.livejournal.com]

Baby goats are about the cutest little bastards you'll ever see.

[besubversive.livejournal.com]

Baby farm animals absolutely kill me with their sweetness.

[go-team-venture.livejournal.com]

My mom has neighbors who raise chickens, turkeys, a horse, and mini goats. There is really nothing cuter than a baby goat the size of a puppy. Unless it is 10 baby goats the size of puppies leaping and gamboling everywhere.

[besubversive.livejournal.com]

Um, I would love to gambol with 10 baby miniature goats. In fact, that seems like The Most Squee-Worthy Way To Spend an Afternoon, EVER. And I would make a friend come along to photograph the gamboling. OMG. I envy your proximity to animal preciousness.

[go-team-venture.livejournal.com]

I wish I had some pictures of the little buggers. Every few months, there's a whole new set of babies to go over and chuckle at. They're so bouncy, they're made of hair and rubber.

[besubversive.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! You SHOULD take pictures next time you visit them.

[go-team-venture.livejournal.com]

I will, next time kid season rolls around.

[angela-la-la.livejournal.com]

I've known a bunch of people in their 20s+ who don't/didn't drive. Two of my friends just never learned how, and I have to admit I think it's a little neurotic--they have partners to drive them around, but just being afraid to learn is an alien concept to me. Most of the people I know learned to some extent when they were teenagers and just never had a need to get a license because of living in the city. Eventually I think all of those people did; I think one person because he had shared custody and had to drive to another city regularly, and another because his partner thought it was dumb that he couldn't drive her to work when she had knee surgery. I still know some holdouts, though, although the lure of Philly CarShare is lowering that number.

[besubversive.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY understand choosing not to drive if you live in a city, but it seems almost irresponsible not to make sure you know how to, you know? I guess it's the worrier in me? I can think of a bunch of scenarios in which not being able to drive would further complicate some kind of emergency situation. I'm all for preparedness. Plus, I'd feel bad if I had to rely on other people to get me place that were not in my vicinity, not reachable by bike or PT. Or if I could never take my turn as designated driver.

[strph.livejournal.com]

I think it is kind of weird to be scared of getting your license even into your 20s, although I was scared of it too, but only as a teenager.

I was a late bloomer when it came to driving, because I waited until I was 17 despite having driver's ed at 16. Almost everyone I knew was going ga-ga to get their license but I wasn't in a rush because I wasn't that interested in it and I didn't have a car anyway. Before I turned 17 however my parents pressured me and got a third car and decided I would be driving my sister to school and fun stuff like that so I had to finally get my license.

My best friend was kinda the same way... she didn't care about getting a license and enjoys having people drive her around. (And I liked driving her.) She did get her license in her teens, although she's just now getting her first car of her own at age 27... after realizing that she really couldn't share the car with her husband when she has a newborn and classes to teach and everything. Ha.

I can't say I've ever known anybody who refused to get a license well into their 20s.