When a person is no longer young, everything will slow down. Walking slower, going down stairs, and even speaking slower – so aging makes the world smaller and smaller, but there are many people who decide to do a little bit of struggle, for example, to learn to drive.
Last year, the age limit for driving tests was abolished, and this year, the number of drivers over the age of 60 in China reached 16.57 million, an increase of 2.33 million compared with the same period last year, an increase of 16.36%. According to the Ministry of Public Security, the number of drivers aged 51-60 in China has reached 60.86 million, and "driving in the old" is no longer a rare thing, and driving has long ceased to be the privilege of young people.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of this particular group of drivers, a few days ago, we launched a solicitation with Tuhu Car. We've received a lot of inspiring stories about learning and using a car – driving is a fun but risky thing, it's about self-worth, fulfillment, freedom, and, of course, it also takes your means.
Over the years, some people on Zhihu have been asking, "Should we encourage my mother in her 60s to learn to drive?" "Do you still have to learn to drive a 60-year-old father?" There is no standard answer to whether a person should go to learn to drive, for those who are struggling with the "old to learn to drive" elderly and family, I hope the following story can give you some inspiration.
Wen | Liang Song
Edited | Golden Stone
Many mothers decided to learn to drive at an old age
In this collection, we found that "mom" is a high-frequency word. Some of them are in the village, some are in the city, many people are not highly educated, and in the decades of life, they have poured themselves into becoming a good wife and mother. When they got older, they decided to learn to drive. For them, it's a lot of a metaphor – at this age, they finally decided to be themselves.
@Ms. Wang
In 2018, I was working in the field, my father used his year-end award of the previous year to report to my mother for a driving school, my mother was too stressed, called me every day, scolded my father, said that he was 50 years old and still learned to drive, the villagers would laugh at her, I comforted my mother, let her not have so much burden.
Listening to my aunt, in order to deepen her impression, my mother copied all the questions of Ke Yi on paper, and she scored 98 points in The First Section! When I called, my mother was very happy. After my mother got her driver's license, considering that she was older, our family decided to buy a new energy vehicle with a maximum speed limit, so that it could be safer.
My mother did not dare to go on the road from the beginning, and now there is no problem in driving alone to pick me up at the high-speed rail station. The technology is also getting better and better. My mother is now the only woman in our village, including the surrounding villages, who is still driving at this age.
@ Xiao Zhang
My mother is an ordinary housewife, she has only been to school for one year, and she only uses voice to text when sending WeChat, she can't pinyin. She was 42 years old when I was a sophomore in high school, and one day my mother suddenly said that she wanted to learn to drive, and we were all surprised, although we didn't believe that she could pass the exam, but she still encouraged my mother to learn.
Ke yi is the most difficult level for the mother, on the computer to read the word answer well, she actually can not recognize the whole word, the mother will try to remember those pictures, the length of the word, every day after going home with the mobile phone to practice for a few hours of questions, later, my mother only in the subject quadruple exam once, the others have been over again!
My mother is really proud, and when I encounter various setbacks in my study and life in the future, my mother will encourage me: you can get a driver's license if you see that I can get a driver's license if I don't know how to read a few words, and my daughter is the smartest and will definitely succeed! Haha, like every mom in the world, she always stands by my side for no reason, believing that her child is the only and smartest child in the world.
@Pepe
My mother is 58 years old, she wants to go swimming every morning, she leaves very early, winter is cold and summer sunbathing, I am very worried, so I encourage her to learn to drive. She learned to drive very seriously, more than 2 months to get a driver's license, especially the subject one test scored 98 points, today went to buy a pink Wuling mini, very happy to see her happy look.
@coco
40+ old aunt went to learn a motorcycle driver's license this year! I fell in love with motorcycles about ten years ago and haven't put them into action. Maybe because the spring and autumn days in Beijing are too short, whenever I think of learning a book, the weather is already very hot or it is cold immediately. This spring lasted a long time, and as soon as I gritted my teeth, I went to the driving school to take the motorcycle driving license. It turned out to be such a simple thing, and it only took ten days from registration to getting the book. Now a happy knight, every time I look at myself wearing a helmet in the mirror in the company elevator, I am very happy.
@ An ear of wheat
My mother, a 50-year-old driver's license, immediately let me buy her an SUV after the test, slowly driving myself slowly and skillfully, and now she is a three-year-old driver. Once when she came home, she picked me up at the high-speed train station, and to see how she drove, I felt that it was the best item I had ever bought for her. It was as if what was bought for her was not a car, but the freedom to walk away after years of hard work and care for her family. Every time I hear her say that she's driving out with her little sister, I think, "It's so nice, my mom has lived my ideal life." By the way, a friend of my mother's, 55+, just finished the third subject. So proud of them！
@Daeguan
My mom is 52 years old, and learning to drive was something that happened when she was 50. In the countryside, old age is not calculated by age, and the transformation of identity is the basis for old age.
My mom's job is to sell small snacks in the wet market, freshly steamed chicken cake, and she is particularly proud of the delicious taste of others. In my sophomore year, my sister had a baby and my mom became a grandmother. My sister gave birth to two babies in two years, my mother-in-law was sick and could not take care of her, and her brother-in-law was still in a different place, so my mother was "old" - from the beginning of my sister's return to work, she stopped working to take care of my sister.
There is no car at home, the child occasionally has a headache and brain fever, it is not convenient to go out, my mother began to have the idea of practicing the car, the family is not very supportive, especially my sister, through the child's illness by the head hoarse to say her dissatisfaction, not a good obedience, my mother did not say anything, the back will not go to practice the car, every day at home with the baby.
I was the only one who supported my mom. I only wanted her to be happy all the time, only once in life, and I wanted her to do everything she wanted to do, but at that time I didn't have a job and couldn't give her money to go to school.
I wanted to give my mom enough security. Just like learning to drive, I want to say to her, you go to learn to drive, I come to buy a car, we practice together, choose a car together, it doesn't matter if we drive slowly, it's safe, it doesn't matter if you rub it, I have bought insurance, I want to say to her, I really want to take the car that my mother drives.
Now that wish is almost granted. In August, my sister took the child back to her brother-in-law's house, and I graduated and returned home to work. After my mother "regained her freedom", she was very happy. She would tell me, you finish eating in the cafeteria after work and then come home, I'm going to go swimming. My mom grew up near the water and her biggest hobby was swimming. Before, my sister had a card in the hot spring hotel in the city, and every time she went, she had to take the baby with her, and after my sister went back, my mother said, "I still swim alone."
I'm going to let my mom and I go to learn to drive. I'm so happy, I'm working now, my mom is free again, and I'm more confident to defend her freedom.
@Mother Pig's Little Pig
My mom was a housewife. She didn't work before I went to college. She cooks delicious meals, is a girl, and seems contented and happy. But I could feel that she lived a chaotic life, did not have clear preferences, and did not have too many ideas of her own. She adored my dad, even though my dad was just a truck driver. She is the most traditional kind of "wife" and "mother", the husband makes money, she looks after the house, the child is sick, she will blame herself, she must have done something wrong during pregnancy. The light bulb is broken, my mother only has one idea, then we have to wait for your father to come back and fix it!
At the age of 45, my mother signed up for her driver's license. Her reason was simple: she used to go to my grandmother's house, and she had to wait for my dad to be free, but she wanted to go if she wanted to.
However, there are many objections, first of all, my father, "The whole family is a driver, what do you want to test for a driver's license?" But it didn't stop. Then there were the neighbors' aunts, in a sour tone, "I don't dare to test yo, in case something happens..." My mother didn't care. When she arrived at the driving school, she found that the little friend who practiced with the car was my elementary school classmate, and she opened her mouth to say "Auntie", she was not embarrassed, and happily shared with people the sunscreen I bought.
I remember my mom got my driver's license after the first small holiday, I came home from Beijing, my mom drove, my dad took the co-driver, they came to pick me up in the city, there were many people and many cars that day, my mom drove quite thrillingly, was plugged by small pickups, looked at the lights, several sharp brakes, because I forgot to give way to pedestrians at the zebra crossing, and I received a ticket two days after returning home - but that was the first time I saw in my mom that clear, I must do something, shining eyes. I could feel as if something had woken up from my mother.
Now, my mother's car is getting better and better. From the first co-pilot had to be someone, to later driving alone, she drove the car and blew a lot of wind. When the car was time for maintenance, I drove to Tuhu near my home to do maintenance, and I didn't have to rely on my dad anymore. Later, in Tuhu's workshop, she also met several women who were about the same age as herself, and she was more confident. The other day, she was a driver again, taking my grandmother and my grandmother out to climb the mountain, the sky was particularly blue, the wind blew their hair, and they all laughed happily.
Source documentary "Living out the Trees of Shirin"
After my parents learned to drive, the family relationship became more harmonious
Driving is never just a technology, it is also a way to know and open up the world, and even the process of acquiring technology will lead to more understanding, empathy and understanding. Sometimes, we only need a small opportunity, it may be a car, or a driver's license, to let the relationship between family members flow and have more understanding.
@Mr. Ho
When I was 60 years old, I went to driving school to learn to drive, so I learned to drive with a group of young people who called me "Grandpa" to practice driving piles, and that summer was a joyous and beautiful summer.
When I got my driver's license, my daughter just bought a car and renovated the house, she couldn't drive, so I drove to help her buy materials, and I felt a sense of accomplishment after coming in handy.
Because my wife has a long-term waist disc protrusion, legs and feet are inconvenient, it is not convenient to go out to take public transportation, in 2015, I made up my mind to buy my own car, since then we have started a twice-yearly self-driving trip, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, walked a lot of big cities and small places... I have accumulated a lot of good memories.
@Mortal
In February last year, my parents both learned to drive at the same time, my father was 62 years old and my mother was 58 years old. In fact, at the beginning, my mother wanted to take the driver's license, and she felt that she might not be able to learn, so she pulled up my father as a "cushion back".
Two people in subject one and two have passed at one time, and an interesting thing happened in subject three. At that time, my father passed it at one time, and my mother did not pass, she was very disappointed, and she cried when she came home. At this time, my father let go of his previous attitude of "laughing" at my mother, cooked for her, and comforted her.
What moved me the most was my mother's second exam subject three, it was already July and August, it was very hot, the driving school was quite far from our home, my dad was also responsible for taking care of my grandfather at that time, he made a meal for my grandfather every day, and then rode a motorcycle to send my mother to the driving school, very hot summer, he stood alone under the shed waiting for his mother, and then helped her to see the point, told her the precautions, and waited there for her to finish practicing, and then took her home. In this way, the two people accompanied each other, and my mother passed the second retake exam and got her driver's license smoothly.
In fact, my parents' mode of getting along is not the kind of respect for each other, they are the typical needle-point to Mai Mang's personality, but because of the matter of learning to drive, my father has become so responsible and very patient. Including later buying a car, he also respected my mother's opinion, and now the car at home is also driven by my mother more, and my father gave my mother a lot of opportunities to practice. As a child, I feel very warm.
After having a car, it has changed a lot in their lives. It used to be that going to a friend party farther away, maybe my mother went alone, but now, my father's participation will be higher, the two people will interact more together, and there will be less time at the table.
Of course, they don't drive much, they don't drive far, the car they took in October last year, it's almost a year now, the mileage is less than 2,000 kilometers, my uncle also joked that other people's cars may have to catch their breath, your car is not tired at all, every day is good to eat and drink, parked there in the sun, the days are very moist.
@Pi
I've always wanted to give my mom a class to learn to drive, she's 62. Not really wanting her to drive, but hoping that the way or direction she perceives the world can open a new opening. Because people who know how to drive a car change, their relationship with society and others changes – I don't want her to let my dad put cushions on the rear window of the car, I don't want her to keep talking while the driver is driving, I don't want her to think that the driver is glancing at her when he looks in the rearview mirror...
The relationship with society often begins with "understanding". Getting my driver's license at 30 and starting to drive is a new world for me, and a lot of rules, empathy, and security come from the openness of this new world. I want my mom to understand, and thus to get to know my dad, who has been her life's driver.
Source movie "Mule"
It is difficult to learn to drive in the old age,
Give up or stick to it and do what you can
It is not easy to learn to drive in the old age, after all, the deterioration of physical function is an objective fact. In China, although the driving test has abolished the age limit, for people over 70 years old, the driving test will increase the ability tests such as memory, judgment, and reaction to ensure that the physical conditions meet the requirements of safe driving.
Most countries have some physical requirements for elderly motorists. In Florida, USA, drivers over the age of 80 are required to undergo a personal vision test. In the UK, seniors over the age of 70 who want to retain their driving qualifications must declare that they are free of epilepsy, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions every 3 years. Motorists over the age of 75 in Japan are required to undergo a relevant thinking test when changing their driver's license.
We do not encourage all the elderly to blindly learn to drive, to drive when they are old, or to do what they can.
@Four Nights
Born in 1960, Dad is 61 years old and signed up for a driver's license last year at my encouragement (because my dad has expressed many times envy that others can drive). Ke Yi passed the exam very smoothly, the first time he did not take the exam, dad went to a few classes, said that he did not go, only said that he did not want to learn.
This year's New Year's Home, a meal Dad accidentally mentioned, driving school coach said "you are 60 years old to get admitted to drive a car for a few years", Dad gave up learning to drive a license. I was really angry, but as a daughter, I didn't dare to comfort, and could only pretend to be relaxed to change the subject, and my heart was very sad, at this moment.
@Big Goose
My mother is not too old, when she was 49 years old, she wanted to learn to drive, and secretly signed up. My mother is very serious about memorizing the questions, Ke yi one by one, but in the process of learning to drive she collapsed, it is no exaggeration that she will go home and cry every time she finishes practicing the car, I understand this feeling, I also cried with my mother when I was practicing, and now it is my turn to my mother, my mother said while crying that I understand how difficult you were at that time. Later, my mother still decided to give up, but I didn't expect to refund some tuition fees, and at noon that day, my family of three took this money and ate a good meal. After not learning to drive, my mother was much happier.
@Miss Lee
My dad was almost sixty years old learning to drive, and I supported him. He took 3 road tests, I took him to drive once and decided not to let him drive independently - driving very slowly, no more than 40, thinking that this is safe, lack of concentration, and like to chat while driving, from time to time also turned to look at you, hands are still off the steering wheel...
@Tada
The year before my mother learned to drive, learned very fast, once broke the record of the length of time they drove the middle-aged and elderly school to get a driver's license, and as a result, the day after taking the driver's license, my mother wiped 4 cars on the side of the road at the entrance of the community, and finally crashed into a nobody's tin room before stopping. At that time, after appeasing my mother, my father came forward to repair and compensate the four cars plus tin house, and the owners of two of the four cars were former colleagues of my father.
After the incident, my mother never touched the car again, so far the real driving age is only one day, she said that she is the life of the car, the driver still let my father come to be.
@Miss Yao
My dad broke the wheel on the third day after picking up the car, and the rear-end car was in a six-month rear-end car accident. This year, my mom, 51, decided to learn to drive. I'm really worried, I don't want to hold her to pursue what she wants, and I'm afraid she's going to pursue it.
Seeing the 57-year-old self-driving aunt on the video site, I sometimes think, I wish my mother was so free, but I was scared, just like my mother was worried.
@Sun Jing
Dad signed up for driving school last year, at the age of 59. This age math car, the difficulty is not small, coupled with the fact that he can't use the computer, the old man is very nervous. The next day of registration, I regretted it again, felt that I could not pass the test, and finally chose to challenge myself under the persuasion of both the driving school and my family. The whole process was very tortuous, subject one did not hear the test room broadcast clearly, did not take off the mask according to the regulations and the score was invalidated, subject two took the exam three times.
I still remember that when he was preparing for the exam, he brushed the questions first when he woke up in the morning, brushed it again during the lunch break, brushed it again when he came home from work at night, and brushed it again before going to bed. My mom said, "If I had this kind of momentum when I was studying, I would have been admitted to college earlier."
In May this year, I was on a business trip to Guizhou, and as soon as I got off the plane, I received a WeChat message from my father, "My father is over." At that moment I was almost moved to tears.
@ Xiao Sun
Coordinates Beijing, I want to tell the story of my second aunt and second uncle, the second elder bought a suite in Guilin, Guangxi, and changed places for many years. After learning that the driving test was lifted, the second uncle specially ran to take a driver's license and bought a car, just to drive all the way back to Beijing from Guangxi. Can you imagine? The two elderly couples in their sixties and nearly seventy also got a roof tent, slept in the service area, and finally drove back to Beijing safely. In this way, I think these two old people are also very cool, if my second uncle did not have been deducted 16 points for violations all the way...
@000
My mother learned to drive in her fifties, she is a very cautious person, I am not particularly worried about the road, the biggest worry is that the car is wrong and she will not deal with it. I met once a few days ago, the battery of the car is old, suddenly it can't catch fire, my mother is anxious enough, the only way to think of is to call me. Fortunately, in the Internet era, there are many reliable car app, such as Tuhu and so on. When I got home, I downloaded one for her, entered the model of the vehicle, and the appropriate battery could be selected at will. My mom is really my mom, in the name of "cost performance", spent several hours, read all the battery user reviews, and then still chose the cheapest one.
@Quiet
A few years ago, dad rushed to the 70-year-old age limit to take the driver's license. The people who learned to drive with him were all young, and dad mingled with them, and every day he studied in a good mood. I passed all the subjects once and successfully obtained my driver's license.
Now, he usually does not drive very far, that is, within a few kilometers, occasionally travels to relatives, and every time someone praises him for being able to drive at this age, the vanity visible to the naked eye is satisfied. But the age of the memory is really not very smart, there have been several times people left, the fire has not been extinguished; on the gentle slope forgot to pull the handbrake, after getting off the car only to find the car slowly sliding ... Fortunately, there were no bad consequences.
This kind of thing may not be less for young novice drivers, but for the elderly, children still need to be reminded.
Source TV series "Please Answer 1988"
Some parents decided to learn to drive,
Still for the younger generations
Driving is a very free thing, it means that the radius of life becomes larger and it becomes easier to get out. But we also found that the biggest motivation for many Chinese elderly people to learn to drive is still for the younger generations - they are eager to drive to pick up their children, pick up their grandchildren, and even help their children shake the number, or to make it more convenient to go to their daughter's home. For them, driving is not only a skill, but also a way for them to continue to contribute to their families.
@Scallion Planet
My mother is in her fifties and still drives every day, while I am twenty years old and have no intention of learning to drive. Lying in the back seat of my mom's car, watching her take me out, to work on my own, to the airport, to school far away, there was always the illusion that I hadn't grown up yet, that time had never passed: I was still the kid who could put his foot behind the driver's seat.
@ Ball Total
My dad, 52, suddenly started learning to drive this spring, on the grounds that he was going to pick up his grandchildren later (funny, I didn't even have an object). The middle is also very bumpy, the subject two exam four times, mainly due to nervousness, the middle also once stressed a mountain, resulting in fire. On the fourth occasion, when I finally passed the perfect score, my dad was very excited, and our whole family was very excited.
After experiencing spring, summer, and autumn, my dad worked hard to go back and forth between the driving school and his home, and a middle-aged and elderly person who worked hard finally passed the third subject today, one step closer to getting the certificate. My father, who is in his fifties, experienced some minor setbacks on the way to learn to drive, but it also gave our family an unforgettable memory in 2021.
@Acai
My dad was 65 years ago, it took three months to get a driver's license, the most difficult thing for him, is subject one, in order to pass, he spends a lot of time every day doing exercises, the first exam, nervous to the hand shaking, not over. He thinks every day, practices day by day, and his motivation is to get a driver's license to help his busy business son pick up and drop off his children and reduce the burden on children.
@Sweetfield
My dad was a captain and had driven a ship all his life. When I was a child, I was very envious of other classmates whose father could pick up and drop off school, and I could only take a bus for a long time. Especially at the beginning of the school, I still have to carry a large bag and a small bag, I am thin and small, I have two big red rubber buckets, filled with bedding and daily necessities, the family obviously has a car, why does dad refuse to learn? Very sad.
Until the birth of his daughter a few years ago, the father was sixty years old, he was simply in order to personally send his granddaughter to school, took a driver's license for a year and a half, passed the test, and now three years have passed, the car is driving well!
@Aki
It was my father who came to learn to drive. In 2010, I went abroad to study, my father suddenly decided to go to learn to drive, my father was also in his 50s at the time, and he quickly bought a car after the exam, and then every time I returned home, my father could drive to the airport to pick me up, and then I worked in Shanghai, taking the high-speed train home every week, and my father must have come to pick me up without moving.
@Little Bear
In fact, it is not a story, the coordinates of the imperial capital, this year when learning to drive and the coach chatted idly to hear, many of the elderly who came to drive the school to learn to drive the car is not for their own convenience, but to get a driver's license to help their children shake the number, they often learn very slowly to add lessons, but also very sad.
@Su Xiaomi
After my parents retired, they lived a leisurely life, and persuaded them to learn to drive several times to facilitate their lives. "Oh, we are old and slow to react to the danger of going on the road, just in this small county town to take a taxi cheap and convenient, out of the far door or train plane is good", it feels quite reasonable, I also gave up persuasion.
As a result, in 2017, the parents who were 58 years old and 55 years old suddenly said in the group that they had got a driver's license, the two of them learned together, the subject two or three were tested several times before they passed, the mother was a teacher for a lifetime, the strict class teacher who managed the students, and the result was that the learning car was trained by the coach. I asked her why she was looking for abuse, and said that last year when I was in the United States, I took her out and drove all day, "If I could drive, you wouldn't drive alone." 」
Now that I have returned to work, I just want to be closer to my parents.
@x Lady
This year, I had a child, and my mother passed away many years ago, so my mother-in-law had to help take care of the confinement with the child. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can never avoid contradictions when they get along. My father was worried about me, hurt me, and wanted to come to see me often and be my strongest backing. It was very inconvenient to come to see me every time I took a ride and changed trains, and he wanted to come and help at any time, especially when I was in difficulty. Therefore, the 57-year-old father made up his mind to get a driver's license this year, retreat at home, in addition to working hours, the rest of the time is reading, 20 days successfully passed the first subject, and now in the second subject.
Watching my father wearing reading glasses clumsily operating the subject brush software, I couldn't help but burst into tears, this is my father's silent love for me. I hope your father is in good health and your daughter will always love you!
Source film "Family Suffering"
Really for myself
For many elderly people, "old" means "useless.". They are a group that is easily overlooked, but also a low-value group. But driving makes some changes happen, they are free to decide their own itinerary, they can go to the wider world, and more importantly, they find a long-lost sense of confidence and value through this highly technical, high-barrier-to-entry activity.
@YUI sauce
When the second exam was taken that year, there was a white-haired grandfather next to him, it was said that he was stuck with the upper age limit of the driver's license to take the test, and the person next to him asked the grandfather why he was looking for a driver's license, and the grandfather replied: Not necessarily open, but must have.
@ Not honest
My grandfather got his driver's license last year, 69, and he said he would take me on a road trip when I got home. Every time he made an achievement, he would share it with me, hoping to be my example, and he did, accompanying me in high school to memorize ancient Texts, and running with me in junior high school, and it seemed that there was nothing he couldn't do. He was never afraid of the problem of age, he dropped out of junior high school because of the "Cultural Revolution", and when he had the opportunity to go to college, both of his children had already gone to junior high school, and now he still insists on exercising every day, and he will always be refreshed.
@Little Witch
My dad got his driver's license at the age of 70. After the exam, he told me that he still wanted to fly a plane.
@ Happy for a lifetime
Mrs. Ben has been driving for 10 years and is 64 years old. Don't feel too good.
@Ms. Wu
My grandfather is 72 years old and has always had a dream of traveling the world by car. He has an electric scooter for the elderly himself, but he's always wanted to drive a real car. After the driving test was released, he ignored the opposition of his family and quietly registered himself, and now he has passed the first subject and is studying subject two.
@Cabbage
My dad was a doctor and took everything very seriously. At the age of 53, he decided to learn to drive, and after signing up, he held the driving test book every day and read hard, from day to night, preparing for the subject. The first two subjects passed smoothly, but I did not expect to plant a heel on subject three. He hadn't eaten the night he hung up, and he had been listless for a whole week, obviously his self-confidence was seriously frustrated. He said he had never hung up in his life, and this time he was really hit.
But it didn't take long for him to turn the pressure into motivation, and he went to the driving school every day to practice... The day He passed, he rushed home and showed off to me like a child: Your father is going to get a driver's license! I am sincerely happy for my dad and wish him the joy of enjoying new skills in middle age and old age.
@Circle Lady
Dad started learning to drive this spring, and he's 59 years old. At the same time, he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Fortunately, half a year has passed, his mental state is still quite good, he is still preparing for subject two, and he goes to the coach every day to practice. I would like to believe that learning to drive and getting a driver's license became a small goal for him. Hope Dad gets his driver's license and drives me out with Mom!
@Dmitry
My father was almost fifty years old to learn the car, because he had only read the third grade of primary school and knew very few words, so subject 1 and 4 were still very difficult for him. Then my dad got his driver's license, and all the projects were done once.
My family also has a car, he likes to come to pick me up, in the car, he will often say some of his "pride" when learning to drive: he is the only one who goes to learn to drive together, the sweaty palms of the hands are still over, the coach says that he drives the most steadily... I learned that even if he is not literate, even if he is no longer young, he will still be proud of what he has done, he has been buried by the labels of father, husband, brother for too long, we are almost forgotten, he also has his pursuits and ideas.
@柒柒
My dad was born in 1952 and is now 69 years old. He took his driver's license at the age of 59 and bought a car a few years later. At that time, he suffered from COPD because of smoking, he couldn't stand walking for a long time, and he was breathing very badly, and I told him, you quit smoking, I bought you a car, he really quit smoking after he heard it, a smoker for thirty or forty years, said quit.
After having a car, my dad drove two big long-distance rides, one was from Shenzhen back to hubei hometown, the whole journey of more than 1,000 kilometers, at that time, my husband and I were still a little worried, but I believed my dad, he is a very careful and cautious person, to go out, he will definitely make preparations, sure enough, my dad later told me that before driving this long distance, he specially invited a chauffeur, take him out to drive every day.
The second long-distance is this summer vacation, he was young in Inner Mongolia Erlianhot as a soldier, want to go back to see, my husband and I provided him with 50,000 yuan of travel funds, he took my mother, my sister, and my son, 4 people from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, all the way to play, drove to Erlianhot, and reunited with comrades-in-arms who have been separated for more than fifty years.
Later, when my son was about to start school, he sent his child to hohhot airport, let him fly to Shenzhen alone, and then he drove back to Hubei from Inner Mongolia and back to Shenzhen from Hubei.
Now, my dad spends more money on gas than I do every month, and I feel that after having a car, his life is less limited, as if he has opened a big door at once.
@Zheng Zheng
My mother was about 48 years old to take the driver's license, the first day of driving to work scared to the heart beat faster, until two weeks later to adapt to the driving thing, now 53 years old she has been driving for 3 years, I don't want to take the driver's license, think my parents will drive, I rub the car to sit very well, but my mother told me: people must be able to drive, so as to have real freedom.
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