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[Angel Tarragon]

Agreed. It is weird and odd.

 

[Mystery Man]

Complete aside, but it always seems really weird to me (I'm in the UK) that you guys* can drive at 14 but have to wait until you're 21 to have a drink. Over here, you can drive at 17 and drink at 18.

I'm not making an argument about which is better, note, just saying how it's weird when you're used to it being one way round and then find someplace else where they've done it completely differently.

*I am aware that this isn't the same in all States.

Well a with a learners permit I was only able to drive to school and back and you had to live a certain number of miles away from school to qualify for one. This was also 16 years ago, I don't know what has changed if anything.

As far as waiting until 21 to have a drink. It's illegal to drink until the age of 21, I know very few people when I was growing up who actually "waited" until they were 21.

 

[Desdichado]

I grew up in the boonies. My dad taught me how to drive his 1979? Dodge power wagon when I was the age of 10. I had a learners permit at 14 years old and drove a Gran Torino back and forth to school. At the first snow he put chains on the tires and didn't take them off until spring. Soooo embarrasing.

You were ten and learning on a 1979 truck? For some reason I assumed you were older than that. Not sure why.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I believe that here in AZ the youngest you can be and have a permit is 14 and a half years old, and I think the youngest legal age for getting married (with parents consent) is 16.

 

[Mystery Man]

You were ten and learning on a 1979 truck? For some reason I assumed you were older than that. Not sure why.

Got to wondering and had to call my dad. The truck was a '71, I was 10 in 1979. I remember running it off the side of the road and fighting to get it back on and watching my dad bounce his head off the roof of the truck a few times. In Dodge trucks back then, the shocks were in the seats.

 

[Desdichado]

Aha! So you are older than me by... well, by a good two or three years anyway.