'Going For A Drive'

barry1010 | 09:28 Mon 03rd Apr 2023 | ChatterBank

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This used to be a pleasant way to spend a spare day, load the car with a picnic, frisbee, ball and drive somewhere different just to enjoy the scenery and the trip out.
Haven't done it for a long time - is it something you enjoy?

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bednobs

Not really. I associate going for a drive with having difficult conversations, whereby you can have them without having to look at each other, or periods where you get to think about heavy stuff

Tilly2

We used to but not since I have become unhappy about driving any distance.
My Aunt and Uncle, who live in the Staffordshire Moorlands, go out for a 'run' most weeks. They do have some lovely places to go to, being so close to the Peak District.

Zacs-Master

I think just about everywhere is too busy, unless you live in the wilds of Scotland. I remember doing it in the 60s / 70s.

barry1010

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I agree, Zacs, and with the cost of fuel and very often parking it is no longer the pleasure it once was.

There are beautiful, wild places in Staffordshire. I always thought I was very lucky living in the middle of England - so many lovely places accessible including a day trip to the seaside.

MissTerious2

Yes, but not with ball and frisbee or a picnic. Just with dog and water and the intention to have a lunch at a coastal or country pub. Hoping to start doing this again soon after a totally miserable five months. Not at weekends though cos the grockles will start coming down!

Zacs-Master

The grockles who keep the pubs in business, you mean?

bhg481

Yes, we still do it. Usually choose a National Trust property or similar, choose a cross-country route avoiding motorways as far as possible, enjoy the drive followed by a walk round. I drive there, wife drives back; distance no object within reason upto a couple of hours each way.

barry1010

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We used to stop at a pub on the way home in the days when drink/driving wasn't so rigorously enforced.

barry1010

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bhg, that's not quite the same as you are driving to a particular destination but a pleasant day out all the same

MissTerious2

I don't drink Barry and Mr T doesn't when driving. We both did way back I time! But we still use the pubs, mainly for meals. Something we've been missing!! We live amongst woods and fields, so even a trip to the garden will be great after being incarcerated for so long!

bhg481

barry - we're going for the drive as much as the destination, so I'm not sure how you think it's different.

MissTerious2

Yes those grockles Zak. The reason we avoid the coast all summer because the grockles don't know or even want to find out how lovely it is inland! ;0)

douglas9401

"I think just about everywhere is too busy, unless you live in the wilds of Scotland."

'The wilds of Scotland' is overrun with campers and caravans looking to get away from it all but bringing 'it all' with them.
Rolling roadblocks driven by selfish morons from the cities and towns who have no regard for folk trying to get on with the everyday stuff of life.

And of course there are the long distance tourists with their utter disregard for their fellow man, you know, the type who fought in three world wars so we could all have the freedom to choose how best to make life miserable for everybody else.
You know, the ones who, ordinarily, hold forth on how 'they should just leave and give the rest of us peace' while leaving a trail of filth in their wake just like at home.

Yup, 'going for a drive' was great at one time.

Zacs-Master

Terrible people, MissT.

MissTerious2

No not terrible Zak, but somehow they change into damn selfish people and dreadful drivers, when they leave their homelands. Not all of them obviously.