Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-07-25 04:19
Some pretty extraordinary people in the midst of our car dominated society either have never learned to drive or did and chose not to. Arranger/composer Quincy Jones was a passenger in a terrifying wreck while still in high school and just decided he would be successful and prosperous without ever getting behind the steering wheel for the rest of his life. Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury (like Quincy) managed to live in Los Angeles and not drive, which in itself is a major accomplishment. Isaac Asimov didn't learn to drive till moving to Boston, but he had an aversion to flying, even though he wrote stories about space flights to other galaxies. Albert Einstein is only one of several theoretical physicists who reportedly didn't drive, and castle-dwelling fiction writer J.K. Rowling also spurns the wheel. Conversely, Pete Fountain was frequently seen driving his band to gigs in his Mercedes minivan, and also was a collector of antique cars, I believe. Premiere violinist Jascha Heifetz insisted, for environmental reasons, in the oil and gas gushing days of the 1960s, on driving an all electric car--one of the very few in existence back then. People do come many varieties, and each to his own.
Post Edited (2022-07-26 00:20)
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