Defiance wrote:
So, I'm getting my license in a week. I could care less outside getting between schools. It's great taking a passive attitude about it, too many people see it as some sort of necessary rite of passage. I'd wait until 18 to not have to deal with driver's ed laws if I didn't have to get in between 2 schools everyday.
It's a matter of convenience for me. There's only one real mass transit thing near my house, and it's a bus that comes every 30 minutes. Let's say I wanna go to see a movie with my friends in Silver Spring (a town in the DC area). I'd have to take that bus, pray that it's coming soon rather than later, take a 10 minute bus ride to the metro, then take a 30 minute ride on the train to Silver Spring, then find my way to the movies. So that's anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour of transit.
Or I can just drive for 25 minutes.
And god forbid I have to go to my friend's house in Virginia where, AFAIK, I can't get to by mass transit.
I honestly wouldn't care as much about getting a car if I lived near the Metro or in the city (be it DC, Bethesda, Clarendon, or Silver Spring)
@Gooners, did I say I was accident prone? If anything I implied that, at least in my opinion, I wouldn't be likely to cause an accident.
Last edited by Hurricane2k9 (2008-12-03 16:38:54)