So, I have to make a very important choice now...

[Caribou]

My parents are making me choose. Either they pay my new MP3 player, OR they pay my first couple of driving lessons.
At first my head just screams "OOOOH MPTHREEE!!!", but the lessons could come in very handy in later life.

And If everything works out I'm going to university this summer and I'll be living there and I don't need a car at all as I get to travel free on public transport. And before I even get to uni I'm too busy with learning for my exams to even get into the bloody uni.

BUT, my parents say I won't be able to afford it later and I should get my license asap.Also a friend of mine gave me a ticket for 1 free lesson with a guy she says is really cool, but I'm too afraid to make the phonecall as cars kinda scare me, but I feel like I'm disappointing her everytime I haven't phoned the guy yet.

Oh dilemma, dilemma. What would you do?

[beastiegirrl101]

driving lessons, then you can take the car to the store to get the MP3

[abcdefz]

Give a man an MP3 player and he plays it for a while.

Teach a man to drive and he plays with himself for life.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Will you keep up the driving lessons? I mean, i can safely say that you will need more than a couple.

If it were me, I would take the driving lessons.

[Caribou]

I know that the driving lessons would be good, but I don't know if I can combine it with my work and all the studying I have to do now. I also have the idea that it will take me a gabillion lessons to finally get my license.
My mother has been driving het motorcycle for over 20 years, knows how to ride it properly and had a whole bunch of lessons, yet she could never pass the exams. She mainly got stuck on the theory.
Maybe I should just wait a while. I'm not sure.

[ScarySquirrel]

Are driving lessons the same thing as driver's education here in the States? Would I be correct in assuming that you have to take driving lessons to get a license in the first place?

If so, yeah... do the lessons. Otherwise, I'd go for the MP3 player. But, hey, if you can drive that's going to be infinitely more useful in the future. Not to mention that technology is advancing so much that things such as MP3 players' prices will continue to drop whereas stuff like driving lessons may only rise in cost, like your parents say.

[QueenAdrock]

Driving lessons. MP3 players break, knowledge of how to operate a vehicle and a driver's license will never leave. Unless you drink and drive, which you shouldn't.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Just in case you misunderstood me, i didn't mean that you would need loads of lessons because you were crap or anything... :o Just speaking from experience. Took me a full year of lessons, one per week and 3 tests before i passed!

On the 23rd of this month i will have had my licence for 15 years. That makes me feel oooollllllddddddd.

[beastieangel01]

driving lessons, then you can take the car to the store to get the MP3

word.

I wish I had these kinds of hard decisions to make in life.

[Caribou]

yeah, but, like, my old MP3 player has broken and it was like my baby for 2 years and without it I feel all empty inside. I just can't handle the silence.
AAARGH!

[kaiser soze]

Pay for driving lessons?

Can't your parents teach you how to drive?

If they did then you would learn how to drive and have the mp3 (which you could just download millions of for free anyways)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Can't your parents teach you how to drive?



This is a recipe for disaster. Trust me. :)

[Caribou]

Pay for driving lessons?

Can't your parents teach you how to drive?

If they did then you would learn how to drive and have the mp3 (which you could just download millions of for free anyways)

ehm, no. That's not the way things work over here.
You have to go to a drivingschool and take lessons and if your teacher thinks you're good enough you get to do an exam.
Plus that my dad is the worst teacher in the whole world ever ever.

[Loppfessor]

My parents gave me room and board for 18 years then kicked my sorry ass to the curb. So why don't you go home tonight and thank your parents for loving you and quit being a whiny lil bitch!

[Caribou]

Well, you probably deserved to get your ass kicked out. :rolleyes:

It's not like I'm completely spoilt and that mummy and daddy just buy me expensive mp3 players. I didn't get anything for my birthday (in june) so they said they still owed me. And then I just asked if I could lend some money for a new mp3 player and pay them back in 2 months and now they're making me choose and they know I suck at choosing.

Anyhoo, everyone bitches and moans on this board. Le me join in the fun goshdarnet! :mad:

[Otis Driftwood]

I'm pretty sure your player can't cost more than half a dozen lessons, right?