On Saturday, 26 August 2017 10:31:03 UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/26/2017 10:34 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 9:41:43 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> That rite of passage is fading. My brother got his license the first
> Saturday after his 16th birthday, I got mine about two weeks after
> mine. My now wife was probably 6 months, but one younger sister never did.
>
> My daughter's new husband has an 18 yo son and has no inclination to get
> his license yet. He just got a mediocre job in walking distance. Only
> looked for a job because they turned his phone off.
>
> Many teens are opting to wait these days. Phones and video games are
> more important than cars.

Remember when we were kids and "new car time" rolled around every fall, it was almost as thrilling as Christmas or any other fun holiday. Now younger folk regard vehicles as "appliances", like a microwave or toaster oven. They are thrilled by new phones and social media, not new cars so much...

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Best
Greg -->> aka "old fogey"