This situation is from a while ago, but I was wondering what you guys think about it(something reminded me of it)...
I had a dancer friend who didn't always have the best street smarts or logic. I wrote about her before...she had the pimpish boyfriend who would dominate her money and move his deadbeat sisters into their 1bedroom apartment. She kept telling everyone around the club on multiple occasions about how she was "finally" done with dancing and that she was going to become a supermodel and a soap opera actress, just to end up returning to work a month later(just in time for her rent deadline) because she couldn't make it as a supermodel. She wanted a baby during a time that she couldn't keep up with rent and wasn't able to care for her pet dog. Just to remind you of who she is.
Anyway, she was around 25 years old and still didn't have a driver's license. Now that's not so bad, since I understand that some people are scared of driving(she was) or live in big cities where it's impractical to drive. Well she DID live in a city where mass transit was available, but she never took that either. And her neighborhood's not dangerous for taking mass transit. Instead, she would always bum rides from her parents(she didn't live with them) or friends. Sometimes she would take a cab, which I think is ridiculous to pay that kinda expense when you can take the bus or even maintain a car for cheaper. When we would go to places in the city, she INSISTED on being driven there through traffic instead of taking the subway, which would have taken 1/3 the commute time...even when there was a group of us. At work, I was usually the "lucky girl" who ended up giving her a ride home every night from work and then get belittled later by the house moms about how subservient I was to keep giving rides.
Is this strange? Back when I got annoyed with giving her rides and vented to my friend M--k about it, he snickered meanly and said that it was "pathetic" that she was 25 and didn't know how to drive OR take a bus. He said that the only kid he ever knew who didn't know how to do one of those things was a 15-yr-old who lived in the suburbs where mass transit wasn't available. Now that's considering that M--k is never mean, gossipy, or insulting to ANYONE, but even he laughed at her for it. What do you guys think? Think it was about time that she'd stop depending on me for rides?


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