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757sean's avatar

I stopped driving in 2013, and can’t imagine operating something like many modern cars.

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BayPoodle's avatar

They drive basically just the same, it’s just all the other fun stuff you can do while driving. It’s a real challenge. Screens are even more tempting than the reformulated Chips Ahoy cookies.

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757sean's avatar

My wife and I went on a trip, and she got a rental car.

I don’t know how to turn on those lights!

I have absolutely no idea, either, hon.

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Steve Stats's avatar

Before we owned a car we rented for weekend trips and we learned to ask where lights, windshield wipers, and how to open the gas tank before we left the rental place. Some cars have those in the strangest places!

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757sean's avatar

Well, we’re Beltway Swampdwellers. She isn’t happy that she has to venture into her office in MD every day now. She’s still driving the tiny econobox we bought while she was an undergrad. The past five years were very little car time.

If she wants something new soon, that’ll be up to her; I’m retiring Friday.

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