When you're 17, you got your a-levels to worry about, but often your parents pay for the lessons for your birthday.
After your a-levels you need to be saving up for uni costs.
During uni, you have no money and are busy either studying or working, trying to get enough money.
After uni, you still have no money as you have a student loan to pay off, plus when you start work, you'd have to have lessons after work, which are more expensive.
But then after that you have to buy a house and i'll have to have a mortgage, which means i'll still have no money.
Then i might have a family, which means i'll have even less money.
So by my reckoning, unless I don't learn to drive when i'm 17, I won't have enough money to, untill I don't have a mortgage on my house and any kids have left home. Is there any other way round this problem, unless my family win the lottery?
My auntie gave me the impression that it was now or never. Which made me think, but not say out loud, 'ok then if you pay for it.' but I knew better, even though she could afford it, I just went 'hhmm'.
I could probably pass the theory and practical test, its just getting the money, it's not as if I come form a poor family, my parents jsut don't think there's much point in learning until i've left uni (by which time they'll expect me to pay for all of it.)
No ttfn, but she is rich, with no children to have to worry about. I've worked out, that if she gave up, one of her 3 or 4 holidays she goes on each year, that'd probably pay for the; car, insurance, tax, mot, lessons and tests!
Jack, that's why I didn't say anything to her, everyone's entitled to an opinion. But it was also the way she said it, as if she thought my mum and dad should pay for it, which they probably won't.
Do you get an allowance? Why not ask you Dad and Mum to give you your allowance for the year in a lump-sum, explain to them first you ambition of wanting to learn to drive and you need the money to pay for it. Surely they'll see you are not wasting money.
Molly, I believe you are obliged to have a minimum of 3 lessons by a professional instructor, but other than that, you could learn to drive with, say, a parent - so long as they've held a full licence for a minimum of (I think) 3 years.
Society, I used to get pocket money but since I can go out and get a job they've stopped. But it's not that easy. Plus my dad and his ex paid for my brothers to have lessons, and hsi earning more money now, and has less children to worry about.
NoM, like I said before I wouldn't want my dad teaching me, and my mum hasn't got the confidence, but I'm not entirely sure what my neighbour is scheming . . . .