I like those car adverts.. usually Jeep, Landrover or some other scourge of the school run, they show free climbing, kayaking, mtb and such with the usual “unleash your freedom” buzzwords... at the end it says from only £1200/mth subject to status ect...
Yup!
Yep...! Mostly had proper mechanical cars...old air-cooled vws..not all this electronic control tosh that shuts down and needs an expensive factory reset cos a fly got caught in the electric window sensor....that sort of thing is a back of the mind stress/worry!
Just point out that you're more likely to be a victim of violent crime if you're male, and during the day time.
Nice try, and I have made that point, but lower risk is not the same as no risk. There is no winning.
Nice try, and I have made that point, but lower risk is not the same as no risk. There is no winning.
That's a fair point but it also opens up a can of worms. The eldest two certainly would take taxis on occasion but not without precautions. If it was just one of them, on their own, usually just one taxi company would be used and that was because we had built up a good working relationship with them. They could tell us the name of the driver and we would know who it was, partly through my wife, who doesn't drive. That might seem overly cautious but, while the girls were at primary school, the young mother of one of their friends was murdered by a taxi driver, and it made an impact on them—well, on all of us. However, that's not the only reason that they don't feel 100% safe in taxis: it's the wider experience of creepy guys and sexual harassment both online and in the real world. All three of them have experienced it to varying degrees: bums pinched or slapped, unwelcome comments, persistent nagging for topless photos . . . Violent assault is not the only cause for concern. Our youngest simply will not take a taxi at all because she doesn't feel safe in them. I give a lot of lifts because so many guys are arseholes around women. Whatever car stress I might get is less than the stress the girls face around guys.
