Driver of the Year Award Winners

A bit of lunch hour frivolity.

As a woman driver, I take great exception to the male chauvinist joke that some male colleagues were circulating and chuckling about today.  Here, in any case, is what they were laughing at:  winners of the 2006 “woman driver of the year” award.

It’s just such snickering, heard from uncles and other males in the family, that kept me from actively driving until I was in my 30s.  So did living in New York City, where cab drivers can put the fear of God into anyone trying to negotiate driving in midtown and owning/parking a car is an act of defiance and foolishness. ”Not driving” is still a badge of honor in New York City (and even, I’ve learned, in Chicago) for a (now shrinking) segment of the population, so it was cute to read of the NYC couple who decided to forget about air travel and hail a cab—–to Arizona.  For more, read on.