Women cannot drive in Italy and Spain...?
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Women cannot drive in Italy and Spain...?
This message was posted by Butch:
"Message: I'd also like to point out that in Italy and Spain women can only drive during daylight hours unless accompanied by a male relative over 17 years of age."
This cannot be true!!!
"Message: I'd also like to point out that in Italy and Spain women can only drive during daylight hours unless accompanied by a male relative over 17 years of age."
This cannot be true!!!
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This is true, but you have misspelled country names. The correct spelling is Iraq and Saudi. You have also misstated the rules: no women can drive, and if caught as a passenger in a car with man (not related), she is whipped. he may be executed or flogged.
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This is true in Saudi. After the desert storm, many Kuwaite(sp) women were driving in Saudi. A number of women in Saudi decided that they should be able to drive and did so. Within a few weeks they disapeared of the face of the earth. They are also not allowed to go shopping without their husbands, so the malls are pretty much empty during the day. A student in one of my classes just returned from working there for 15 years. His wife had to be driven everywhere, was not allowed to drive herself. (Not sure how she could stand it). They even drove the children to school and all events while the husband was at work.
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As a South African woman - we drive on the left hand side of the road - I'd like to tell you that I would never, never drive in Spain. other than driving on the righthand side of the road, Spanish drivers must be about the worst I've seen. Thaey have no regard for road signs and almost every car we saw in Barcelona, new or otherwise, was dented!
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This no-female-driving-after-dark thing explains why all the male drivers I encountered in Italy and Spain panicked and pulled over when they saw me behind the wheel of my battered, oversized Mercedes. And here I thought it was because my black eyeliner was smudged down to the cheekbones and I was screaming and cursing in multiple pidgin languages and flailing my arms like a windmill and driving the wrong way on one-way streets. Well, you learn something new every day. Those crazy Italian and Spanish fellas.
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Just for the record- women can shop in Saudi unescorted. It is the ONE thing they can do. I worked at the Kings guard hospital for seven years. All we did was shop- for fabric, gold jewelry and for brass. The Saudi buses have a partition and women ride in the back. Since the driver is up front, they have a box and fare is 'honor system'. Like most women, I never paid..if I gotta sit in the back of the bus, I ride free! We could only get take out food and eat on the curb or in the back of restaraunts if we didn't have a man. If caught in an apartment with a man not our family or husband, we would have been sent home immediately and the man would have been publicly whipped. They had executions every friday at the chop-chop block in the center of town. Locals always tried to drag us there to watch how efficient their justice was,so we all avoided it. Talk about culture shock!