Post by Sharon on Apr 9, 2012 18:19:23 GMT -5
Well today is Monday and my truck insurance was due to run out today so I had to find a place open Easter Monday to renew it. I was successful at Superstore where I had never renewed my insurance before.
While completing the paperwork the lady asked me how many years I had been driving. Talk about Memory Lane!!!!!! I told her I got my license at 16 and if you reverse those two numbers that is how old I will be this year ---- unbelilevable 45 years it will be this year.
Actually now that I think of that I actually did not get my license until I was 18 and married but I did drive when I was 16. My dad used to let me practice driving in the family car.
I remember when I got my license -- how proud I was. The independence was unbelievable and I do not know how I could of managed without my license. I did not live where there was such a convenience as public transit so if I needed to get anywhere I had to drive.
I wonder how many miles I have driven? How many children I have transported to school field trips, sports events, birthday parties ... the list could just go on and on and on. How many friends and family members I have driven to appointments. The major food shopping trips and so forth and so forth and so forth.
As for insurance that was back in the day that EVERYONE'S vehicle insurance expired on exactly the same day -- end of February was it or March? Can you imagine the chaos if everyone's insurance expired on the same date now -- the long line ups.
When I got my license there were not many females who drove. Actually in my family, my mum and my sister never got a driver's license -- I was the only girl that did and I never regretted it for a moment.
I remember two lane highways. Traffic lights were almost non-existent. Never saw a merge lane for many a year. Angle parking was common on the main streets of town and there was always a place to park. No Tim Horton's drive throughs -- the only drive-in restaurant was A & W and the girls got about on roller skates. McDonalds had not been in Canada very long. I can not even remember the price of gasoline but it could not of been very much.
It is 45 years later and the highways and parkways are at least 4 lanes -- the majority shop at the huge box stores or the massive shopping centres on the outskirts of town where you can find parking but it might be a long distance from the entrance to the mall. You pretty much have to take a short term loan out to fill up your vehicle with gasoline. Merge lanes are everywhere but I have learned that traffic merging in have the right of way so they do not cause me distress any longer, lol) Like most other North Americans though, I love my truck and I love to drive and I hope I am able to do so for many more years.
Hope everyone had a fabulous Monday and hope to read your posts on here soon!
Love,
Sharon
While completing the paperwork the lady asked me how many years I had been driving. Talk about Memory Lane!!!!!! I told her I got my license at 16 and if you reverse those two numbers that is how old I will be this year ---- unbelilevable 45 years it will be this year.
Actually now that I think of that I actually did not get my license until I was 18 and married but I did drive when I was 16. My dad used to let me practice driving in the family car.
I remember when I got my license -- how proud I was. The independence was unbelievable and I do not know how I could of managed without my license. I did not live where there was such a convenience as public transit so if I needed to get anywhere I had to drive.
I wonder how many miles I have driven? How many children I have transported to school field trips, sports events, birthday parties ... the list could just go on and on and on. How many friends and family members I have driven to appointments. The major food shopping trips and so forth and so forth and so forth.
As for insurance that was back in the day that EVERYONE'S vehicle insurance expired on exactly the same day -- end of February was it or March? Can you imagine the chaos if everyone's insurance expired on the same date now -- the long line ups.
When I got my license there were not many females who drove. Actually in my family, my mum and my sister never got a driver's license -- I was the only girl that did and I never regretted it for a moment.
I remember two lane highways. Traffic lights were almost non-existent. Never saw a merge lane for many a year. Angle parking was common on the main streets of town and there was always a place to park. No Tim Horton's drive throughs -- the only drive-in restaurant was A & W and the girls got about on roller skates. McDonalds had not been in Canada very long. I can not even remember the price of gasoline but it could not of been very much.
It is 45 years later and the highways and parkways are at least 4 lanes -- the majority shop at the huge box stores or the massive shopping centres on the outskirts of town where you can find parking but it might be a long distance from the entrance to the mall. You pretty much have to take a short term loan out to fill up your vehicle with gasoline. Merge lanes are everywhere but I have learned that traffic merging in have the right of way so they do not cause me distress any longer, lol) Like most other North Americans though, I love my truck and I love to drive and I hope I am able to do so for many more years.
Hope everyone had a fabulous Monday and hope to read your posts on here soon!
Love,
Sharon