I've never learned to drive. It just wasn't a big priority to me. I can't imagine how someone parallel parks. And it's a big responsibility too. (At least a car isn't a horse, which also entails the responsibility of a pet!)
That's one reason I'm glad I live in a big city, with its mass transit removing the need for driving. (My father stopped driving and got rid of our car a couple of years ago.) It must be terrible to live in one of those suburbs where everything is designed to be car-friendly.
Of course, getting a driver's licence is an important rite of passage for most teenagers. I was reading about this eccentric dictator in the republic of Turkmenistan. (He erected a gold-plated statue of himself.) He published a book detailing his ideology, and before someone could get a driver's licence he had to pass a test on that book! That dictator knew how to assert his power in a way that young people couldn't ignore, but it seems awfully petty.
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