On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:34:22 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 9:41:43 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 8/26/2017 8:54 AM, graham wrote:
>> > On 2017-08-26 4:51 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> I don't think I would want a 'driver' like that* I don't drive now
>> >> as much as I should.* I drove for many years with no problems but
>> >> now?* DH prefers to take his car and since we just about always go
>> >> everywhere together since he retired ...* I took mine out this morning
>> >> for the first time in a few weeks, but I got him to drive back.* This
>> >> is really bad!* If, for any reason he is off his feet, I will need to
>> >> drive my car* I really must start driving more
>> >>
>> > Dad was in hospital during the Suez Crisis and Mum had been learning to
>> > drive. Petrol was rationed and learners were able to drive without a
>> > driver accompanying them. She eventually got her licence but as soon as
>> > Dad recovered, she never drove again.
>>
>> If you go back to the 50's and even into the 60's, many women did not
>> drive. One car was sufficient and dad took it to work. Rarely did a
>> woman actually buy a car. Now, almost half the new car buyers are women.
>
>About half the population are women, so that's about right.

And women drive newer more expensive vehicles than men do.

>I'm considerably younger than you; all my friends' mothers drove. In
>my generation, both sexes considered getting their driver's license
>an important rite of passage.
>
>IIRC, at least one of my grandmother's friends didn't drive. My grandmother
>often picked her up and drove her places, although when the canasta ladies
>met at my grandmother's house, someone else drove Ora Lee there.
>
>Motown. Cars were (and still are) king.
>
>Cindy Hamilton