Where we discuss when it's time to move out from your parents

I need to learn to drive, but I'm so fucking scared of driving because I don't know how to drive. I don't practice driving because I'm scared and don't know how to drive so I don't get practice. dammit cyclicity has me in its grasp again

tl;dr i need driving lessons from shia lebouf

 

the only thing stopping me from getting a licence is a $1000+ fee

 

Those car troubles belong in the social anxiety thread - I used to have a fear of driving similar to D.D.D. but not anymore. Got my license at 15 and then sometime later went a two year stint without driving at all.

This year I've done two major trips - six hour drive to bloody middle of nowhere and two hour drive to halfway middle of nowhere (those are one way times). The six hour drive sucked because I am the only one of my coworkers with a license and they wanted to stop and eat all the goddamn time, to use up our daily food allowance.

 

Jesus fuck what. It only cost like 15$ for the test and 60$ for the license itself over here for me. Why're they so expensive in other countries?

 

Gotta be the cost of tuition rolled into that.

It's like $150CDN for a 5 year license no?

 

not country, province. forced to take courses and the government mandated minimum price is $925 (not including test/probation license cost)

afaik in quebec its $100 a year but you have the card for 8 years. so i guess you save 8.25 on the plasticization fees!

 

Sounds very unfair.

 

$110 for each test+license in ontario.

Ouch, I'm glad those aren't mandatory here.

 

We need this in America, 70% of drivers are bullshit and we need more cops handing out tickets like it was mardi gras. Although if you didn't let Asians, Mexicans, Women, and people older then 60 or younger then 20 drive, I am sure accident rates would drop off to become a scarce thing.

 

Whos going to smuggle coke then?

 

you live with your parents and dropped out of college

 

Black men in their 50s, obviously.

you study sociology.

 

Totally bro: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1114.pdf

Nice stereotyping. The actual leading race for car crashes are Native Americans and you didn't include them. I see we're all about the facts here. Took me a whole 2 minutes to find that out too.

 

I was thinking of nascar myself.

 

I honestly don't know how anyone can function as a human being without the freedom of a car.

If you're scared of driving either stay off the road or get a volvo, but either way, don't drive like a fucking old person.

So just let me know if I interpreted this properly.

"I am not happy but I'm happy that it's my choice not to be happy"

 

Broadly, but not exactly. More like if I really want to change my situation, I know what I can do.

So it's a choice, like most things in life, just not one like choosing a breakfast cereal to eat.

 

I can afford an apartment by myself just fine, I live with my mother to help her pay the bill until I can get her to dump my bothers ass on the street by stop paying his bills.
I drive 100 miles a day. I see more stupid drivers them most others do except, truck drivers, they are in their own class since its their job to drive.

 

I get that but I think sometimes it's very easy to get stuck into a rut, into being comfortable with how things are. When it becomes like that, even though you know what you need to do to make the change, you're not actually capable of taking the steps and so there's no real choice at all. The only way to really prove otherwise is to actually do it.