When I needed to get somewhere I would walk or take a bus. At one point I would walk between forty and fifty miles every week. It wasn't until I was 26 that I learned to drive, and that was private lessons. I never took driver's ed in school. My parents had me convinced that I couldn't learn to drive safely. It was a problem with getting jobs. People would ask how I intended to get to work on time and they were never impressed with walking or taking a bus. It wasn't until I could say that I can drive that they took me seriously.