Category: Let's talk
Is it me or does anyone else seem to make friends with sighties who can't drive? Not all my sighted friends are driving-challenged, but the few who can drive are very very very busy with work, school, significant others, family time, etc. Maybe this should go in the rant board, but I'm not going to go into my rant about stuff that's happening with me. I just want to know if I'm in the same boat with any other blinks or blindies who encounter sighties who can't drive or have no form of transportation or no time to transport anyone but themselves and their immediate groupings of their own people.
Hmmm. This really isn't much of an issue for me. When I was younger, I had the stereotype that all sighted people drove. When I went to college and asked some about it after I felt comfortable, (You know how sensitive they can be), I was told that things like the cost of a car and insurance made their decision for them. I'm not sure exactly where this topic comes from for you, but at the risk of offending, how important is this for you personally, or is this just a curiosity thing? Again, no offense intended.
Lou
I do have some sighted friends who can't drive, but I've got enough people who can, between friends and my sister, that it usually isn't a problem.
The problem is all my friends are alcoholics, so the government has decided they can't drive. In all seriousness most of myne up at college don't because at my college when you live in the dorms it's not worth the hassle, but at home they do.
The rant part behind it is because I'm trying to move out and can't find anyone to drive me down to the town I want to move to and help me go apartment hunting so I don't end up moving into a ghetto or something without checking first. There's no way to make efficient use of public transit. I'd definitely need someone with a car. Plus, I'd need someone with a truck or SUV to help me move my stuff once I found a place and I can't find anyone who'll do that either. At a last resort, I'd go through craigslist and find a driver, but it's a last resort because those people aren't checked and some sicko could abduct me or assault me or something.
Get over it and grow up. Cregs list isn't myspace and you arn't a 13 year old girl. Maybe you should go back and live with mommy and daddy if your such a wimp? They'll make sure to tell you there arn't monsters under the bed.
You could always rent a truck from a trucing company or get ovrs to help you. It's not that expensive really. I rented a truck and had a friend of mine drive and two friends helping me out, we got a fine for illegal parking and it came to $220 with truck renting and everything, about $20 less than I would've paid for 2 hours of professional movers with a truck, totally not worth it. As for looking at apartments, check out the specss online and call them and then use special transportation, cabs or public transportation or a combination of all three to help you look at places. If you have friends who are sighted only so that they can drive you around that isn't very nice now is it <grin>. That being said, all my sighted friends have a driver's license.
Damn Jared that's cruel. I dont' have very many who drive either but I don't care I guess. but wb is right see about apartments by phone first then see if you wanna get there withall that trouble.
Well, it makes sense if u do have more sighted friends that don't drive because maybe they can identify with your frustration at not being able to do so. While WB may have said his comment about not being very nice that you expect your friends to drive you, it's a verry important point. Just because they are your friends doesn't mean they should be responsibable for your getting transportation to and from places. In fact, if you did have a friend who you constantly bothered to drive you laces, I'm sure that friend would eventually get fed up with it. My solution, though not a perfect one, is to relocate to an area where public transportation is better. Unless you have a job or some other such thing tying you down of course.
KC8 PNL raised some good points. I didn't really think about this until I was in a job wher I ironically scheduled driving lessons. One of the instructors commented to me that I built my life around the fact that I will never drive. She's now my supervisor, and a good one as an asside. Since I was a teen ager, everywhere I lived was dependent on my ability to use public transportation. I'm 49 now, and I'm starting to notice a decrease in my hearing. I'll continue to use mass transit as long as I can. My wife is sighted and wants to live in the country. I was raisd in a very small town, and I don't want togo back to that. The price of tranquility is too high for me.
For the past year and a half, i was able to pay a driver and this worked out for us as she was a broke college student and i wasn't able to drive...the town i go to school in is uber tiny and has no city transit so if i hadn't established the payment thing with this girl, i would have had to just suck it up and walk everywhere. I do have lots of sighted friends who all drive and if we're going to the same place, of course, they give me rides but other than that i don't ask them for rides unless my driver can't take me and it's an emergency.
there are good-hearted sighted people who will give you rides sometimes just because you're friends but as mentioned in a previous post, they'd probably get tired of playing chauffeur eventually.
all that to say this: getting around is strictly your responsibility and yes, i know it's frustrating that you can't get help moving and such but like the others said, there are ways to get around it.
Mpost of the friends I do have are not sited, but hte ones who are mostly can drive. I never see them though, so I guess it doesn't count. What frustrates me is people in your family who get mad if you ask them to drive you somewhere. That can be difficult.