12th March 2012, 09:09 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Have had a good rant on here before about this, it's been noticeable and much discussed for years that a ridiculously small percentage of diggers seem to have learnt to drive - it regularly results in significant operational difficulties around here if there are a lot of small jobs on, and means that often we've had to give work to people purely because they could drive rather than that they were the best people for the job. On the 'taxi-driver' front, these days I generally just don't offer people lifts if I can avoid it, after a quarter century + of taxiing, I'd have thought occasional bursts of gratitude (or possibly the odd tenner towards the petrol) would be in order, an awful lot of people seem to think they have a god-given right to transportation by those who've actually bothered to get off their a**es, save up and pass a test. And, errr, in this day and age isn't passing your test just part of growing up?
Of course, when Dino was a lad, just out of his egg, and about to become a man through the ritual of the driving test (no theory then though), cars were still powered by coal and coal only cost thruppence a ton, and there were hardly any cars on the road anyway, and Thatcher was telling us that only the feckless and workshy couldn't drive, and it were all fields round here me lad.
What is the relevance of your statement? Driving cost a fortune when I learned some time ago, it costs even more now, never mind insurance. How young graduating archaeologists are supposed to manage unless they are already loaded I have no idea, and that sort of attitude is hardly helpful. The poor bastards.