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Sunday drive
Cynthia D 120985006-Nov-23
Do families do this anymore? I remember loading up the kids and going on a drive, maybe stopping for ice cream somewhere. No real destination, just an outing. Do people do this anymore?
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  • Renata 1398784
    I'm volunteering with children and family Rides are in the Master plans
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    • Missy Wyld
      largely...i believe not there is no 'sunday' drives anymore many work on sundays now and shops are open all day, every day
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      • stephen m 596524
        not really. The excitement of a car journey for its own sake has passed
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        • Julie 1403418
          I don’t think I’ve ever gone with my kids for a Sunday drive. Might have to start
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          • Jania S
            young families yes, IN OUR AREA, Families with older member go Sunday walking, We have lots of bushland around us, creeks and walking paths.
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            • Pat C 618241
              Back in the early days of marriage, before the kids went to school. Before the price of petrol rose ever higher, then it all got too much, including the amount of traffic.
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              • Pam G 449028
                I don’t think so.
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                • Christina C 466456
                  I wish I could do this. Saving up for Christmas and ain't got no cash for those kinds of shenanigans at the moment.
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                  • Dimitri T 100433
                    not anymore but did in the past=1
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                    • Mary M 329762
                      Going to park was great but I hate going shop weekend as a child
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                      • Gunter L
                        Driving on a Sunday just for the fun of it adds simply more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and causes more global warming.
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                        • Dottie 1043512
                          What a joy brings to me remembering a Sunday drive.Yes ,I remember my dad taking the family on Sunday drive years ago.
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                          • Paula J 395266
                            When I was a child drinking and driving was encouraged. You could only buy an alcoholic drink if you had driven a certain distance so my parents would take a drive to get a drink. When my children were young we had no money, and I do mean NONE but every Sunday we drove to the dump to get rid of our rubbish and if we happened to have any change left we bought the kids an ice-cream. This wasn't unusual in our area as we would meet many of our neighbours and friends doing the same thing. We laugh about it now because we can't imagine any of our children doing such a thing.
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                            • Christina 1402613
                              If I had a car sure would be
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                              • Denise C (Qld)
                                Yes remember well. Not sure about these days.
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                                • Paul B 522937
                                  Not me petrol is too expensivr
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                                  • Joe B 288252
                                    Now that we are retired we do this a lot but not at the weekend. Weekend traffic is mayhem
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                                    • Kathleen 1395843
                                      Yes my son and his family do they did it last fortnight
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                                      • GrumpyBsd
                                        Did this in the late 60s/70s as a family on Sundays. Roast lunch then an outing. If we were going into town like Adelaide we always wore our Sunday best clothes.
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                                        • Linda B 907610
                                          We did it when I was a kid but petrol wasn't the price it is now!
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                                          • Gaza
                                            When I was a kid we used to but not anymore.
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                                            • The dog house
                                              I remember this as a child, going to Outer Harbour for an ice cream with my parents. Going for drives to the Country. This was fun
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                                              • LA
                                                Carbon footprints actually matter now. If you go for a long walk, it’s amazing what you’ll see that’s right out your front door. Plus, economically, it is too much money to turn on a car these days 🤷‍♀️
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                                                • Paul J 94868
                                                  Won't someone take me for a Sunday drive? I promise to be quiet and drink...
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                                                  • ktsaurusrex
                                                    We usually do this every weekend or every other weekend. We drive somewhere we haven't been to, usually, or somewhere that my son really likes to go (the beach, waterfall, etc). We usually bring a picnic and just randomly find a place that looks interesting.
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                                                    • Toni 1379185
                                                      Fuel is far to expensive
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                                                      • Greg B 520364
                                                        Yep still go to the country or beach for an outing. Not for any particular reason. Our kids do the same with their kids. Sometimes we catch up.
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                                                        • william 1389666
                                                          not affordable for most
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                                                          • Michelle 1281734
                                                            Love Sunday drives or any day. I miss it. Need a loved one to share it with.
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                                                            • Rose S 88496
                                                              Used to when the kids were little
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                                                              • Colin L 88398
                                                                I work 7 days a week so no I don't go for Sunday Drives.
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                                                                • ktsaurusrex
                                                                  That sucks! I'm sorry that you have to work so much! :( Hopefully when you get time off (vacation) you are able to enjoy yourself!
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                                                                • Colin L 88398ktsaurusrex
                                                                  What is a vacation? Unfortunately I own this place and I'm the fool who works so the staff can have time off. I get all the great perks like arguing with the Wage Organisations for increasing the staff pay too much why would I even do such a thing which I said they are my biggest asset so I want to keep them all. Working over holidays so they can have time off and doing all the fun jobs that are too hard for anyone else. Particularly dealing witht he Feds when they are investigating a Security Breach of a company we dropped because the current leader of the Oppersisition opened a Secure Cloud Platform for all Military suppliers which is as secure as a sieve.
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                                                              • Wendy Q
                                                                We used to as kids, jumping in the rear of a stationwagon,(when it was legal to do so) in the UK and go on country drives. Great fun.
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                                                                • APB
                                                                  I did when my kids were small...it was fun
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                                                                  • Graham I
                                                                    Who can afford the petrol these days?
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                                                                    • Henrietta
                                                                      We always took our two daughters for a Sunday drive & then end up at a pub that had a Beer Garden so the girls could have a soft drink. Couldn't do that with our three grandsons as they all grew up in Alice Springs.
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                                                                      • Graeme M 68626
                                                                        I know that if I still had my license, I would still be going on drives during weekends, even though I still don't have it. I know that when we were younger, with a young family we always looked foreword to a drive in the country which everyone enjoyed.
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                                                                        • Lyn 1385519
                                                                          I wish I still had my children at home now. I’m sitting at home thinking what can I do. Would love to be doing this again.
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                                                                          • Roberta E 611945
                                                                            Loved it Especially a nice cafe stop
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                                                                            • Lynn-a-Boo @ Brisvegas
                                                                              did when my kids were little but life gets busy with other things now
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                                                                              • Sarah 1325723
                                                                                No, it's very expensive and not the best for the environment
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                                                                                • Pennye R
                                                                                  My husband bc and I often go for a ride through the country side just to relax.
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                                                                                  • Jenny L 591463
                                                                                    Used too when the girls were little, then they started fighting and now we have no contact with any of them at all. Once some one has said some thing horrible about where you live you certainly are not going to be inviting them to the next place you live no matter who they are. Plus we both got we never put in enough even though they grew up on a nice more than an acre of land and the place is now worth over a million dollars when where you live is further away and costs only half that much. Just glad we don't have to do any thing like that any more. All over, never to return. Besides after seeing Australia for 4 years I really have had enough of trying to find some where new to go. I did love Cram's Farm out the back of the Gold Coast with the view of Mount Warning which no one is allowed to climb any more, sacred lands apparently. Saying no more.
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                                                                                    • Sonya F 68771
                                                                                      People are too busy now and the price of fuel is expensive
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                                                                                      • Shawn B 1061185
                                                                                        I do sometimes. Not so much in the winter, but in the spring, summer and fall. When the weather is nice I put the top down on the convertible, go to a hard ice cream vendor and a walk in the park, then just enjoy the wind in my hair and the sun on my skin.
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                                                                                        • Rebecca B 614374
                                                                                          It was a common outing years ago when I was growing up, especially on Sundays. However, I doubt many families to this now. For one thing, fuel is so outrageously expensive the average family could no longer afford to do it even if they wanted to. Everyone is thinking twice these days before using their car. Family values have also changed. Most kids these days are probably more inclined to have their noses stuck in their phones or tablets than be looking out the windows or getting involved in any activities.
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                                                                                          • jeffrey t 1083827
                                                                                            No we did not when we had kids because I worked six days a week the seven was for rest.
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                                                                                            • Debbie W 69651
                                                                                              We used to do this when our children were small as there was plenty of places that were free to go to. Now it is to expensive with the high cost of fuel and parking.
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                                                                                              • Empress
                                                                                                I doubt it, and kids just have their heads buried in their ipads etc. No child looks out the window to see the bush, play spotto, have any idea of history of areas etc. It is a great shame.
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                                                                                                • Lorne M
                                                                                                  Yes
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                                                                                                  • Robert T 597718
                                                                                                    used to in the good old days
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                                                                                                    • pam rae
                                                                                                      hi Hanno, have fun on site...
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                                                                                                      • Grant 1393984
                                                                                                        Have just started again with my new partner and occasionally we take an elderly friend who doesn't get out much. Price of petrol is a bit limiting but is much better than sitting inside glued to the idiot box!!
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                                                                                                        • Edith v
                                                                                                          No we only have great grand children now & it's too much responsibility.Our grandchildren are all adults
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                                                                                                          • Kathy 1270954
                                                                                                            My parents used to do it a lot. But I only liked it if we stopped somewhere to get ice cream.
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                                                                                                            • Larry S 382961
                                                                                                              My parents used to do it and most times it was the beach. It was always with grandmother but those days are long gone
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                                                                                                              • Sabine V
                                                                                                                Who can afford it now adays!
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                                                                                                                • Elizabeth 1354187
                                                                                                                  They really where the good days
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                                                                                                                  • Robert F 1161011
                                                                                                                    Adds to traffic and pollution and costs money in fuel. May as well go for bike rides or walks instead.
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                                                                                                                    • Kay H 82513
                                                                                                                      we did that when I was a child and also mum and dad used to get us to go for a walk anywhere for half a day
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                                                                                                                      • Conny 1314879
                                                                                                                        haven't done that for years. really miss it
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                                                                                                                        • Felicity V
                                                                                                                          I have very fond memories of this happening when I was a child but with the price of petrol now it must surely be a rare occurrence these days.
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                                                                                                                          • writerrochelle
                                                                                                                            We did when I was a kid, and even when I was an adult, but I don't know if families still do this anymore. I'm anxious to see how people reply to this question! I'm hoping they still do!?! ;-D
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                                                                                                                            • ROBERT K 1065766
                                                                                                                              Its tough now with people working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
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                                                                                                                              • Cocoabeansmom
                                                                                                                                We used to take our two kids to the drive thru live nativity scene, & drive around the neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights. It was fun, we all enjoyed it. Sometimes stop at McDonald's for fries & a drink on the way back home. That was in the 1980's & 1990's.
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                                                                                                                                • Lyn 78550
                                                                                                                                  Oh wonderful memories Cynthia and thanks for that. Yes, we did go on a Sunday for the family drive. It was good fun. I would read much to everyone's dismay. The other 3 sisters would fight a little bit. Mum and Dad did a great job of keeping peace in the car I must say. We would go usually to the beach which was quite a way from us. Then, to top it off on the way home Dad would get a beer and Mum a Shandy (mix of beer and lemonade) and bring it out to the ute. I cannot remember us getting anything. Then we would stop and get fish and chips to share. Oh those were the days!!!
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                                                                                                                                  • lynda e 390007
                                                                                                                                    Yes but not on a Sunday as such and sometimes its an evening drive but sadly not as often as I would like as life is too busy
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                                                                                                                                    • Candice O 403481
                                                                                                                                      I do not own an auto. So no not at all. But my parents did back in 1960s and 1970s.
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                                                                                                                                      • Smiley
                                                                                                                                        Occasionally i'll do this but the roads are getting more congested, drivers have forgotten what common sense, curtesy are and some don't drive within the law which makes a relaxing day out quite stressful and worrying at times.
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                                                                                                                                        • Becky B 593370
                                                                                                                                          I try to do with grandkids
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                                                                                                                                          • Diana J 1247411
                                                                                                                                            It’s too expensive now a days. We have to make plans a head of time to deal with the cost.
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                                                                                                                                            • Carrie K 391388
                                                                                                                                              Yes. In Pennsylvania, in the fall, the trees are very colorful. I like to just drive around to look at them. Maybe stop to buy apples or cider.
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                                                                                                                                              • Marietta M
                                                                                                                                                By coincidence, my neighbor was talking about that the other day. She said when she was growing up, her family used to go for a drive on Sundays, not anywhere in particular, it was just quality family time. When she mentioned that to some kids recently, they thought it was weird, just to drive around the neighborhood and then back home, without going anywhere. (I'll bet they don't think it's weird to be addicted to a phone.)
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                                                                                                                                                • Daniel A 2
                                                                                                                                                  I don't drive, nor have children. though I'm sure my friend goes on Saturday Family drives.
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                                                                                                                                                  • Judy CooplandiaQueen
                                                                                                                                                    First off gotta have a station wagon for that n hardly anyone even owns one of those ... I think when traveling 50 miles or so to a fiea market twice or three times a year is considered Sunday drives
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                                                                                                                                                    • Bugalugs
                                                                                                                                                      When we arrived in, at the time very primitive, South Australia there was no such thing as Wholemeal, Rye, Mixed Grain Bread or Rolls, lioke the population, it was White Only. Thankfully things have changed. We lived, if you could call it that, in a shack at the back of an Adelaide suburban house, yes, there was a Housing Crisis then too! Five of us in a One bedroom thing with a sort of kitchen, for Bathroom and Toilet we had to go up to the house. It was horrible. Every Sunday Mum would make sandwiches, usually Cheese and Tomato, back then the very idea of Wholemeal, Rye, Mixed Grain Breads was the stuff of Scinece Fiction and Real Tasty Cheese was almost unknown with the local Serv-Wel Grocery store, no supermarkets then, only stocking Kraft Plastic Cheese and, no, it wasn't sliced but came in a block, you can still buy it. We would get in the car and drive as far away from Adelaide as possible, usually to some beach, Mum would have the Sandwiches and thermos of Tea, there was no Instant Coffee and the only place you could get what was passed off as Real Coffee was at the very few better class hotels. Sunday was our Escape Time, a bit of Normality. How things have changed. Now we all have nice homes, cars and, thanks to the influx of Italians, Greeks, Vietnamese, Germans, French, Lebanese and so many other cultures the food, the coffee is wonderful. We had relatives in Adelaide and when we asked them where to go to eat they told us to go to Any Hotel but that we should avoid a street in Adelaide called Hindley Street, not because it was dangerous or the hideous place it is now but, and I quote "Because it is full of Wogs and other foreigners and their weird food. We ate there every night!
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                                                                                                                                                      • Elizabeth T 396096
                                                                                                                                                        No such thing as a Sunday drive any more as Sunday road traffic is just as bad as every other day since everything is open 7 days a week.
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                                                                                                                                                        • Cher
                                                                                                                                                          That is a childhood memory of mine too! An outing and an ice-cream treat.
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                                                                                                                                                          • Saara F
                                                                                                                                                            Nope. No-one goes anywhere. Cost of living has crippled our lives.
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                                                                                                                                                            • Tipster
                                                                                                                                                              Sunday drives are too expensive these days - with two or three grandchildren - $70 or more for gas, $10-20 for parking, another $20 for Ice Creams. They all want to be fed, so another $100 for that - even at McDonalds, and if we happen to pass something like a quad bike track or flying fox the sky can be the limit. We tend to take them to a local park with free BBQ's, and cook up a load of chicken nibbles and sausages for the kids to munch on after they have tested out all the playground equipment and paddled in the kids pool.
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                                                                                                                                                              • SANDRA G 394859
                                                                                                                                                                WE DID THIS WHEN WE WERE KIDS DAD WOULD ASK THE 6 OF US WHO WANTED TO GO FOR A DRIVE USUALLY SUNDAYS AND WE WOULD FIGHT OVER WHO WAS GOING TO SIT IN THE FRONT
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                                                                                                                                                                • Paul W 383502
                                                                                                                                                                  No
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                                                                                                                                                                  • Christina P 1042585
                                                                                                                                                                    I sometimes do it with my nieces especially in summertime and they always look forward to an outing and it gives a break to their parents.
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                                                                                                                                                                    • JANN R
                                                                                                                                                                      I dont know we never went on sunday drives Dad was always working on our farm and I did not take my kids on drives either
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                                                                                                                                                                      • Ernie 67
                                                                                                                                                                        My husband and I still do on occasion or at least we did before gas got expensive and I remember drives with my siblings and parents especially to see the Christmas lights
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                                                                                                                                                                        • Susan KTC
                                                                                                                                                                          Yes I can remember Sunday drives, living in northland NZ, we’d usually end up at a beach, one of our fav’s was Cable Bay, Doubtless Bay coastline, they had the best ice creams in a cone, delicious. Living in west Auckland we have the West Coast beaches and the waitakere’s, great for kids, dogs, families…
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                                                                                                                                                                          • PETER M 134659
                                                                                                                                                                            FAMILY THING. HELATHY FOR YA. BONDING.
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                                                                                                                                                                            • Barry T
                                                                                                                                                                              In the 50’s as a kid in the country mum and dad would take us for drives in an old fj Holden on sundays.No where in particular just a trip in the bush.I am now 77 and have great memories, please bring back the 50’s
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                                                                                                                                                                              • MoB
                                                                                                                                                                                Sunday drives family time. Now too much traffic depending on where you live. Drivers are too impatient always in a hurry. The Sunday drive was fun and relaxing. Can't say driving is relaxing at all now.
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Lawrence 1262145
                                                                                                                                                                                  maybe suometimes
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                                                                                                                                                                                  • Chosen
                                                                                                                                                                                    The "Climate Changers" will love you.
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                                                                                                                                                                                    • Carolyn K 714554
                                                                                                                                                                                      As we are retired, we go for Sunday drives on week days. Less traffic.
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                                                                                                                                                                                      • Lyn A.
                                                                                                                                                                                        Could never afford to do it, we made do with picnics within walking distance
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                                                                                                                                                                                        • pam rae
                                                                                                                                                                                          now and then these days
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                                                                                                                                                                                          • Joy L 68767
                                                                                                                                                                                            we still do it sometimes. Hubby and I will jump in the car and go for a drive. Particularly after lock down
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                                                                                                                                                                                            • Maria B 89860
                                                                                                                                                                                              All grown up now, but used to be fun and drive past all the places we'd lived in ... rented in those days so there were many destinations to see what had changed.
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                                                                                                                                                                                              • Beverly I
                                                                                                                                                                                                Not anymore all of my kids have grown up. But I still have two young grandchildren, I don't have a car anymore. So, I sometimes take my little ones out in a taxi which is cheap with a discount card. we use the taxis on weekends. During the week we can catch our MyWay vans which are mostly paid for by our taxes after 9.0clock in the mornings we just show our gold card the ride is free until 3.0clock in the afternoon. Thats when we have to use our B card we have to put money into that card.But the rides only $2.These rides are only for the Hawkes Bay area only. We are so lucky in Hawkes Bay of New Zealand
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                                                                                                                                                                                                • Raven55
                                                                                                                                                                                                  When I grew up that is what my dad would do. Now it may be an outing if they can afford it.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Sandra C 12043
                                                                                                                                                                                                    No children to load up, mine are way past that lol. No Sunday drives for me as a kid either. We didn't have a car till I was about 16.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Mercedes 1376978
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Those family outings are long gone with the cost of living most families can’t afford to go anywhere. Most children are glued to their iPads, phones or PlayStation games these days. I loved those outings when I was a kid.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Marisa 1367299
                                                                                                                                                                                                        No more. Kids grown and doing their own thing.
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