What's the longest you've gone without driving…

"E. Julius" (soonerfrommi)
03/28/2015 at 17:43 • Filed to: Questions

since getting your license? Twice now I've gone four months without getting behind the wheel. The first time when I moved to college my freshman year and didn't bring my car (drove at winter break). The second time when I came to France and didn't drive until my girlfriend and I rented a car while traveling. Waaay too long in both instances.

DISCUSSION (42)

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:45

I'm now kicking off a whole week of no driving while in DC. That is the longest I have gone without driving.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:45

It's been since last August because I've been away at school.

Dusty Ventures > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:45

I've never gone more than a couple weeks, but my friend just came back from two years teaching in Korea. Didn't drive once in that period

E. Julius > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
03/28/2015 at 17:46

Wow that's quite a while! Might take the cake.

E. Julius > Dusty Ventures
03/28/2015 at 17:47

Wow that must be strange. It's weird enough for me after two months (went from no driving at all to the autobahn last week haha).

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:48

um, I've only had my license for like 7 months, but over a month I went without driving over the winter (mi madre thinks I will die a sudden fiery death or roll my car if there is 1 tiny bit of snow on my car).

E. Julius > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
03/28/2015 at 17:48

Well how are you supposed to learn???

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:50

I know right, but luckily winter is over, and so I should be fine now, she claims she wants me to have at least a year of driving before I drive in the snow, but next year I'll be in college (living at home though).

E. Julius > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
03/28/2015 at 17:53

Eh I can sort of see the logic behind that. Still sucks though. It will make your first snowhoon that much sweeter.

Funktheduck > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:55

Maybe a week.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:55

it's been about a week since I've driven my car. But I drive the company vehicle. Doesn't really count though since its for work and the fun factor is night and day

bob and john > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:55

yea, 4 month in the school semester. I do it twice a year.

Its painful

E. Julius > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/28/2015 at 17:56

No hooning on the company dime? ; )

E. Julius > bob and john
03/28/2015 at 17:57

Yeah really. No fun at all.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 17:57

my thoughts exactly, she also wouldn't let me have a car with a manual, which I tried insisting on, but of no use, she also proclaimed I must have an automatic, I wanted a small truck ala Ford Ranger, but there were almost no automatics in my price range, and someone said they get bad gas mileage and so I ended up with a mercury mountaineer. (which ironically probably gets worse gas mileage because right now im averaging 14.2 MPG according to the trip computer).

E. Julius > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
03/28/2015 at 18:00

Yeah I can't imagine the Mountaineer gets better gas mileage than the Ranger, although I could be wrong. Shame you couldn't get a manual—I definitely want one for my next car.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:01

It's an uplander without any back seats, so the hooning potential is minimal. Being that the back is full of parts and tools the result would be awful

Flat Six > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:02

I didn't have a car for the four years I was in college, but did drive over summers or holidays. So that was probably a few 3 or 4 month stretches. More recently I was in China for 6 weeks without driving.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:02

Uuhh... Two days I think.

E. Julius > Flat Six
03/28/2015 at 18:04

Seems like not driving for a semester or multiple semesters is a pretty common answer here.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:04

I think I can get one for my next car. but yes, I really doubt a midsize SUV gets better gas mileage than a tiny pickup.

Flat Six > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:10

My college was fairly urban and hard to find parking. There was good public transportation, and plenty of places to bike or walk to.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:10

the college I'm going to, (well the only one I applied to, and was accepted) is in my home town, so I'm planning to live at home to save 8 grand a year and so I'm planning to drive in college becuase the campus is like 4 miles away, and I don't want to walk or bike that every day, and in northern Idaho, we have winter, and I don't wanna be on a moped in the snow.

E. Julius > Flat Six
03/28/2015 at 18:12

Well at least it was easy to get around. I just had to bum rides off of people for a semester. Freshman at my school say there's no parking, but that's before they move off campus and realize that all the decent parking is occupied by freshmen. Freshmen who of course leave their cars in one spot all week until they go out on the weekend while the students who drives to school have to battle for the scraps on the outskirts of campus haha. Of course now I go to school in Paris and nobody has a car.

ranwhenparked > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:13

Between extended vacations and long corporate trainings, I'd say there's been a couple of 2-week periods without driving over the years. So, 2 weeks max.

E. Julius > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
03/28/2015 at 18:14

Yeah it wouldn't really make much sense for you not to have a car given that situation.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:17

I went 17 years from when I was born until my first driver's ed class....

E. Julius > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
03/28/2015 at 18:18

Well, I did say "since getting your license", but I'll let it slide. THIS TIME.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 18:24

I did not see that, my bad. I suppose the longest I went was a week or so, I've never gone without driving for more than a week on any occasion.

E. Julius > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
03/28/2015 at 18:25

Ha nbd. Isn't it weird to think how you go so long never doing some things, and then all of a sudden you can and you do them all the time?

sellphones2493 > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 19:04

Studies Abroad - 5 Months.

GTCL > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 19:23

two weeks after my knee surgeryin 2013.

E. Julius > sellphones2493
03/28/2015 at 19:23

Yep same boat here.

Autofixation > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 20:21

Six months while I went to army basic training and mechanic school.

Autofixation > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
03/28/2015 at 20:24

My aunt has a Ford Explorer that I drive every once in a while, it definitely isn't my first choice in the snow, not terrible either. She says she likes it because it is big and safe, I prefer my Impreza.

Where do you live? Is snow a big problem?

Tohru > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 20:45

Two months. My license was suspended. :(

E. Julius > Tohru
03/28/2015 at 21:00

: (

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 21:33

A month in Greece. Thank god I didn't drive. I would have been dead in no time.

wafflesnfalafel > E. Julius
03/28/2015 at 21:57

About a month an a half due to back surgery 10 years ago. Otherwise - maybe 2 days.

pip bip - choose Corrour > E. Julius
03/29/2015 at 03:46

6 months , due to loss if license (all speeding tickets)

E. Julius > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/29/2015 at 04:37

Speed demon!

pip bip - choose Corrour > E. Julius
03/29/2015 at 04:44

yup!