'Once I’d mastered the basics, I no longer felt like I was just building a collection of skills. I was developing a new identity; I was a driver.'
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Videos: Getty I don’t consider driving a necessity. For a long time, it wasn’t. I’d lived in places everyone told me I needed a car: Los Angeles, Palo Alto, upstate New York. But 95 percent of the time that people say you “need” a car, what they’re really saying is, “If you’re not a fan of four-hour layovers in Erie, Pennsylvania, you’d benefit from having a car.
Shortly after turning 31, as many of my friends started “settling down,” a confluence of factors urged me to revisit the driving question. A non-driving friend had bitten the bullet and learned in a matter of months, and I was envious. I was hearing more and more about cars’ new autonomous features , and I wondered if it might genuinely be easier than it once was. I started to think about becoming a mother.
One Monday, I called up a driving school near my sister’s house on Long Island and asked if I could schedule a lesson. When they asked how old I was, I whispered “31” into the phone, as though that might disqualify me. “Oh, so you’re an adult?” the lady asked. In a sense, yes. In the weeks after that, I leaped at any chance to drive. I took a friend to the beach; I did my sister’s grocery shopping; I paid a full day’s fee to rent a car for a one-hour drive. All of which brought me to Vancouver Island — three months to the day after my first lesson — with a rental car that was all my own for a full week. I’d booked the trip months ago; I was going to a wedding in Alaska and wanted to take a vacation beforehand.
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