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She could kill someone, and go to prison for vehicular homicide, and you could be implicated because it was your car. You could even go to prison yourself, because allowing her to get behind the wheel of your car would be like premeditated murder.
Why are you even listening to her? Tell her to get her learners, learn to drive, then get her license, or she won't set her fanny in the driver's seat of your car, ever.
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Yes, she is depressed as she is in a new country and doesn't drive so she has to rely on me or her friends for everything but that is only her fault. Unfortunately, the only friends she is interested in having are the ones who are giving her totally wrong info. Again, they have absolutely nothing to lose.
First of all, it's your fault because you brought her here in the first place and haven't made her learn English or learn to drive. You are letting her make the demands. She's a loser, like her friends, and she is using you.
Send her back from whence she came, before she kills an innocent person.
Went out last night and took my car but since I was drinking took a cab home. This afternoon I was too lazy to call a cab to take me to my car so i took my truck to work. Both are parked in the same lot. This evening we went to the same place to get a burger and as I drove past my truck she said "I drive car and you drive truck home". I went right into the "you need your license first" and an argument started. Once again I went over and repeated again, as I always do, possible outcomes. Of course her reply after rolling her eyes is "so and so does it all the time and has been pulled over and never had any problems". Once again I try to explain that an illegal who owns nothing and lives with false papers they constantly change has absolutely nothing to lose but a legal resident and citizen with a house, bank accounts and their own SS # has everything to lose. This is getting old.
Yes, she is depressed as she is in a new country and doesn't drive so she has to rely on me or her friends for everything but that is only her fault. Unfortunately, the only friends she is interested in having are the ones who are giving her totally wrong info. Again, they have absolutely nothing to lose.
I am convinced OP is a troll now. Could be race or hot-topic baiting. He just keeps complaining about the selfish behavior of a woman he's recently married? Marriage partners aren't supposed to keep rehashing the same argument over and over- a compromise needs to be made- because you shouldn't be selfish and giving to your partner is sort of like, the entire point of a relationship. Otherwise, crash and burn, my friend. Crash and burn.
Why isn't she taking her husband's advice as if he isn't good enough to listen to, but he was good enough to marry? Why doesn't she want to get a license? Something here is supremely fishy.
I'm appalled at the condescending answers OP is getting. I know where he comes from and for some people is easy to pick up a new language, but for others it is not. He mentioned they've been together more than 10 years and met in Costa Rica. If for the wife is difficult learn a new language and/or she is somebody that get really nervous in tests, to get a license might be like climbing Mt. Everest. To make matters worse, she has "friends" telling her not to worry, to drive anyway.
BTW, Road signs are an international convention, so the STOP sign says ARRETE in french, but is also red octagon, so people "understand" they need to stop there.
OP, I guess the only thing would be for you to get more involved in helping her get her license. Study with her for the written test, keep the driving practices and go with her to get the license.
If for the wife is difficult learn a new language and/or she is somebody that get really nervous in tests, to get a license might be like climbing Mt. Everest.
I have ADHD, an extreme introvert with social anxiety and an IQ of only 115, but I do well on tests *especially when motivated enough with direct rewards*
This is just a matter of her being extremely irresponsible, entitled and selfish. She doesn't even want to hear what the OP is saying, and is being stubborn. And if they've known each other for ten years then obviously he and she are able to understand the other's language enough to learn and teach how to drive. Something doesn't add up.
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Originally Posted by Merjolie8
BTW, Road signs are an international convention, so the STOP sign says ARRETE in french, but is also red octagon, so people "understand" they need to stop there.
Are you seriously suggesting that learning one single basic verb in another language is too much for the OP's wife?
To piggyback off the others, even if your wife is pulled over, not only will she be arrested, but your car will be impounded! And YOU will have to pay the towing/storage. She in some cases won't even need to commit a traffic violation; many local police conduct spot checks at which cars are randomly pulled over.
BTW, Road signs are an international convention, so the STOP sign says ARRETE in french, but is also red octagon, so people "understand" they need to stop there.
I know European signage on their roads, which I think, but not sure, is an international standard, but it is very different from American signs on the roads. The signs here are probably very different from what she grew up seeing. Sure, some signs are the same, but most are not.
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