Is it anti social to not to want to car share?

[jubby]

I think the problem here is the people who expect lifts.

 

When my bowling league was celebrating its 50th year on our way home we saw a member stood at the bus-stop. We knew we had to go near town so asked where he lived so at the very least could offer part of the way. Found out he was only 5mins of our route so took him home. I didn't have to do this could have left him in the cold rain, but I see him every week during the season so thought it was nice. I don't have the chance during the season as I catch the bus.

 

He didn't expect a lift so was nice. Now i could ask for a lift of my brother every week, but don't as he has to drive across the city. If offered i accept but I never ask.

[Warden]

I have made a personal choice to buy a car, as I believe I need it for my life style, and other people choose not to own a car, due possibly to their believes.

 

I personally think cost does not come into it as you can purchase a car for £200, however I really hate to give lifts to people who through their own believes do not own a car.

 

My car (I believe is for me to transport me and members of my family around). I like to meet people in social places such as pubs or at work, or sporting activitys etc…. but for me a car, its my own personal space.

 

You also tend to find the people who forever want lifts, very annoying especially the environmental types.

 

I'm in a car sharing scheme at work which allows to you to take turns driving with someone else doign a similar journey. When I got a matched offer and realised who it was, the thought of spending early mornings in a car with them was just too much to bear and I haven't responded. Very anti-social of me I know but ....meh!

[mr_busdriver]

A group of us are going to London for a day, and sadly some in the group haven't got a car, and its always the bath dodgers who don't own cars, never the tasty blonde (she normally drives an Audi TT).

 

Its the expectation that someone should be lumbered, ie, the waiting for them, the going out of your way, the fact that you can't pull into a service station at a time of your choosing and have a relaxing coffee, the fact you have to make never ending small talk about c*ap for 3 hours, the fact that if you do it once, the floodgates open and now its expected..... ITS A NIGHTMARE !!!!!

 

I went to Blackpool and the nieces and nephews came back in my car, and for nearly 2 hours they were singing scooby doo songs "Scooby doodby doo, when are you..... sitting on the loo now :hihi:"......... which is a pleasure.......... KIDS ARE GREAT, but not a flipping adult, and not an environmentalist

[Coral Water]

No i dont want anyone sharing my car. I like my own space / i dont want anyone talking to me first thing in a morning on route to work. The best thing i now have a 2 seater. The passenger seat is for my shopping

[rothschild]

Speaking from personal experience........NOPE......it's not antisocial to not want to car share. My own experience of this is that the non car owners seem to think that it's their right to have a lift at your expense. I spent years in my last job ferrying other employees to and from their doorsteps for free. These "lifts" were out of my way and also at my expense. It came to be deemed as part of my job to do this and I stupidly allowed it to happen because I was just too nice to say no! Not once did anybody offer me a single penny towards petrol costs etc. I was totally used and it will never happen again! I have left that place of employment now and I have rubbed the word MUG off my forehead forever! (I hope).

[upinwath]

Oh hell no. May end up giving a lift to an unemployed person or a Muslim.

 

Oh hell, could be an unemployed muslim asylum seeker.

[Little Buzz]

I am not great in the mornings, and empathise with the desire to have the independence the car affords unimpeded by other people.

 

That said I used to give someone a lift to teacher training (about 60 miles round trip) and didn't mind - we were on different courses but started and finished at the same time, and I drove past her house anyway. When I was a teacher I used to give another teacher a lift for a month or so while he sorted out an insurance claim and was without his car, and again it was fine - he lived about 2 miles in the wrong direction, but used to get the bus to the end of my road in the morning. In the evening I used to just take him home usually - unless we went to the pub. I think it makes a huge difference if you get on!

 

They weren't really car shares though, and nor are a lot of experiences here. In neither case did I ever go in their cars - the girl on teacher training had a really old, unreliable one (which is how I came to be giving her a lift in the first place) and once the guy who'd crashed got his car back we took our own.

 

True car-sharing is where you take it in turns to give each other a lift, isn't it? So if Alfred (for he was the teacher) and I had taken it in turns to drive each week, that would have been car sharing. As it was, I was just giving him a lift.