On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 8:41:43 AM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> On 8/26/2017 8:54 AM, graham wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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My mother never learned to drive nor did one of her sisters. Even as a
small child I vowed I would learn to drive and have my own car. When
my dad died she always had to depend on one of us children to take her
anywhere she needed to go. We never minded as we got to spend one on
one time with her but she never knew the independence of having her own
transportation.