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I am 78
I lived at home till I got married at 26. Mum did the washing and ironing, cooking, house cleaning etc (that's what mums did in those days).
However I paid for the car and the running of it. Paid board plus an extra 10/- per week so we could afford better cuts of meat!
However I had a full time job, and had done my National Service.
I had probably changed a few hundred tyres (my first three working years were in a garage as a general dogs body) and fixed as many punctures.
I did know all about cars having performed just about every mechanical job on a car in the back yard including a re-bore, gearbox and diff rebuilds. Everyone my age in those days could drive and was car mechanics savvy and had been since the days we "borrowed" the family car and went joy riding from about 15 onwards.
So what's different?
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