I'm ALMOST 30 and I'm just now working towards getting my licince.

Hi Missy, its true, I am getting tired of asking people for drives everytime i need to go someplace! and taking two kids on the bus with an armload of groceries seems VERY daunting. MORE daunting infact then actually getting my license and driving!

My mother has never gotten one either, she has always has has someone in her life that drivers her everywhere. Now he drives me everywhere too, but i dont want to have to rely on them all the time!

that's true.

hahaha I would have made sure i was wearing my seatbelt for sure!! lol things certainly have changed a lot huh? I bet when my grandmother was of age to drive you didn't even need a license. haha. she's nearly 90 now. I should ask her.

My mother's mother never drove, never learned. Grandpa or one of her kids, took her everywhere. Mostly to church and the grocery. They had chickens and cattle and a big garden. LOL

hehe I lived in the city after i moved out of moms house mostly, so i could walk or bus, then i moved to a VERY small town, where i could walk from one end to the other really in 45 mins at most.. but now.. kids on the bus.. UGG! there are too many weirdos

wow really? no belts? kids bouncing in seats? What in the world!? I thought everyone wanted their children to be safe. lol. anywhere in canada, you have to have your infant in an infant careseat until they are 12 months old, and some length or weight. and in a front facing car seat untill they are 40lbs. and then in a booster seat until they are 80 lbs!! its illegal for them not to be in these seats according to their size!!

well if you pay attention to the signs and while others are driving, at least here, the test is pretty much common sense questions.. I just boogered up on the darn signs cause i was in a rush. that'll learn me!

I think its 16 here and if you are under 18 you need your parents consent. The course here that i want to take is 757$ or something, but after tax its about 800. It includes a lot though. defensive driver course, as well as inclass studying, and driving on the road. they come and pick you up, and they do a PRE test in the end before you do your actual road test. I can't wait to get started.

I think the class I took was a month long after school every day and then we did driving on the weekends. They did some kind of testing too, I don't think you could pass the class and get your papers for the DMV signed off on unless you passed.

I think its great you are doing this, its a great experience and even if you don't end up driving often, a good skill to have.

If the cost will save you money, thats even a better reason to take it. Crazy how much insurance costs some places. We just re-did ours with a new company and saved $400/6 months.

congrats on your savings! wow. that's a lot to save in 6 months! means you can have cashola for other things!! lol like more gas hahaha. darn.. its true but not funny!

Well, its one of those things, you save 1 place and spend somewhere else ya know. We just found out some of my husbands student loans that were supposed to be deferred since he's in school can't be deferred b/c he is in a military school & private loans don't recognize them. So we are paying on those, $180/month. There went our $400 savings plus some.

However, he's having shoulder surgery soon so for every month his car isn't used, we get a 70% savings on what we would owe on the insurance (we wont' get it refunde duntil after he starts driving again tho; which is fine, it'll cover more than 1 monthly payment) and all that time I won't have to put gas in his car which saves $$$ b/c his car uses premium.

wow.. i know what you mean. more money more bills.. the more you make the more you spend.. we do it to ourselves.it really is crazy.

hi girl! lol When i lived in ontario i looked into it too.. and HOLY it takes SO LONG to get on the road with that system they have there, and the restrictions, and the COST. it costs me 13$ to write the g1 type test here in NS, they just call it your learners permit, and then 22$ for the card.. then 50$ for the road test and you can take it after 6 months after you get your learners, and if you get the course done, you dont even have any restrictions like no driving after dark on a monday when the wind blows to the north LOL. CRazy.. i'm sure that graduated thing will be implemented here someday too, which is why i'd better get to it now instead of waiting till that crazy testing method gets here.

How nice and cheap for you! WOOHOO!!

I don't know what the costs are here now. 7 yrs ago when I took the G1 written test, it was $100, but that was to pay for the driving portion to be taken anywhere in the next 5 yrs. I'm sure the cost has gone up again. But I couldn't be bothered to find out. I'm actually relatively content with taking the bus or getting the bf to drive me and the boys around.:)

hehe well my hubby dont drive either, and he's going off to boot camp soon, so we should have the money for me to do it, and if i can do it while he's gone, we will need to drive when he gets back instead of relying on someone else, like my parents.. and then i can drive other people places too and be helpful instead of a pain in the butt lol.

LOL... that's good of you! I haven't had that same kind of incentive to learn to drive. Any boyfriends and my ex husband all drove/drive, so why would I bother? And when on my own, it's too much money to consider having a car anyways.

I have an excuse for EVERYTHING!!!

oh yes my aunt was suggesting to learn on a stick, but i can't do that.. i need automatic.. I can't concentrate on the road and my hand eye co-ordination and listen to kids jabbering away all at the same time. LOL i'm good at multi tasking but not that good!! hahah.

Thanks for the confidence ricki, I guess you are in ontario since your talking g this and g that. lol i found all that very confusing when i lived in ontario. they just call it beginners or learners permit here.. I figure i better get it now before NS adapts that g stuff

Yep LOL

I hate the G system really. Although it kinda cuts people out who shouldnt be driving. But some instructors let stuff slide and others done. I highly suggest you get it before this stupid system comes in play. My friend came from Newfoundland to Ontario and took her 5 yrs to go through the G system yet she had her licence back in Newfoundland. They basically want more money. As my friend was telling me it would cost her about 400$ to get her full licence in Newfoundland whereas I paid about 800$ for my full G licence and I finally got just before my 21 birthday. I took me almost 5 years to get my full licence. Practice makes perfecr - what they teach you here in Ontario with all the steps never will teach you or get you ready for whats on the real roads.

yes riki, but the roads are different in newf and ns, we dont have 16 lanes of traffic, or hundreds of thousands of people who can't speak a lick of english. lol i'm sure there are some!! It really is a lot different on the east coast! You should come see sometime. you may never want to leave;)

haha yea.. i'm looking forward to the freedom. What i wanna go to the beach today SURE hop in the car kids lets go go go. what we meed milk.. sure lets go to the store. although, i'm sure i'll end up spending A LOT more.. cause atm i only go out when i get someoen to take me, or someone babysits the kids (my mom) so i dont get to shop a lot. lol. well that and the stuff you mentioned.

I'm 32 years old and just moved to Texas and I don't drive, I failed the test twice and I really studied but I don't know what happened...I'm really desperated since I'm pregnant and I have a 4 year old who hates walking two blocks to school everyday in one way I think is good that we HAVE to walk to her school everyday since we exercise but sucks the fact that a lot of people sees you as a very dependant person, last week rained a lot and was very cold when it was time to pick my daughter up from school I was waiting for somebody to give me a ride I felt so ashamed I guess I'll do my best in reading the damn book and try to pass the test for my kids....good luck with yours I'm sure we both will have our licenses very soon!!