Is this unusual?

PunkRoquefort
PunkRoquefort Posts: 98 Forumite
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I am a 58yr old male driver, who hardly ever has has to drive myself on a motorway and have never driven the M25 myself.
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  • DullGreyGuy
    DullGreyGuy Posts: 17,816 Forumite
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    I am a 58yr old male driver, who hardly ever has has to drive myself on a motorway and have never driven the M25 myself.
    I mean depends on how specific you want to be... suspect there are millions of middle aged drivers who rarely go on motorways and have never driven the M25. Clearly the further you get from London the less likely you've used the M25

    What I found much weirder was the mid 20s people at university in Surrey, still living at home, that had never been to London (in any form, let alone M25)
  • Desmond_Hume
    Desmond_Hume Posts: 269 Forumite
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    No, it’s not. 
  • Goudy
    Goudy Posts: 2,075 Forumite
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    edited 3 June at 1:01PM
    My sister has been driving 40 years and won't turn right!

    She will go all the way around a roundabout or turn left, left and left again, but won't turn right across traffic coming the other way.
  • Alderbank
    Alderbank Posts: 3,791 Forumite
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    There are quite a lot of people of all ages who have never even learnt to drive.
  • teaselMay
    teaselMay Posts: 656 Forumite
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    Goudy said:
    My sister has been driving 40 years and won't turn right!

    She will go all the way around a roundabout or turn left, left and left again, but won't turn right across traffic coming the other way.
    I had an elderly neighbour did this too, we lived on the tightly terraced streets of Liverpool, he wouldn't turn right no matter what. He must've had some peculiar journeys
  • rach_anatasia
    rach_anatasia Posts: 7 Forumite
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    I guess it depends. Do you live in Reigate and travel by car a lot, then yes. Do you live in the sticks in Northumberland and don't leave the village much? Then no, probably not.
  • la531983
    la531983 Posts: 2,889 Forumite
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    teaselMay said:
    Goudy said:
    My sister has been driving 40 years and won't turn right!

    She will go all the way around a roundabout or turn left, left and left again, but won't turn right across traffic coming the other way.
    I had an elderly neighbour did this too, we lived on the tightly terraced streets of Liverpool, he wouldn't turn right no matter what. He must've had some peculiar journeys
    You could easily argue people with that mindset really shouldnt be driving.
  • teaselMay
    teaselMay Posts: 656 Forumite
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    la531983 said:
    teaselMay said:
    Goudy said:
    My sister has been driving 40 years and won't turn right!

    She will go all the way around a roundabout or turn left, left and left again, but won't turn right across traffic coming the other way.
    I had an elderly neighbour did this too, we lived on the tightly terraced streets of Liverpool, he wouldn't turn right no matter what. He must've had some peculiar journeys
    You could easily argue people with that mindset really shouldnt be driving.
    I agree. Thankfully he did stop driving a few months after I moved there.
  • Skiddaw1
    Skiddaw1 Posts: 2,260 Forumite
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    When I was a child there was an elderly lady living in our village who had never learned to reverse. She relied on other people (including my father) to reverse her car when necessary.
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