polish premier - no driving licence

[Jaga]

This is actually nothing strange in Poland, since one can live without a car quite easily. I did have a Polish driving license but I never owned a car....

By the way, I talked today to a lady who just came back from the trip to Germany and Poland. She told me that she noticed there are just very few overweight people in Poland. This is just due to a fact that people in Poland walk so much more!

Here is more about Jaroslaw Kaczynski:
Polish premier doesn't have a driving licence
12 hours ago

WARSAW (AFP) — After announcing he doesn't have a bank account and hands his salary over to his mother, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski Tuesday had another revelation: he doesn't hold a driving licence.

"I admit that I don't have a licence, which I regret," the 58-year-old premier told reporters who were accompanying him on the election campaign trail.

Asked if he planned to learn to drive, Kaczynski replied: "In life, nothing is impossible."

"Maybe I'll do it one day but, to tell the truth, I haven't thought about it," he said.

Kaczynski's comments came as he was quizzed about his conservative government's record on road construction, which has become a campaign issue ahead of Poland's October 21 snap parliamentary elections.

Poland currently lacks a national motorway network, and there are growing jitters over the chances of having one in place in time for the 2012 European football championships, which Poland is due to co-host with Ukraine.

In May, Kaczynski who is unmarried and lives with his mother, revealed that he had never opened a bank account and that she held the purse-strings.

Kaczynski said he had chosen not to open an account to avoid the risk that anyone trying to conjure up a scandal might transfer funds into it and then try to discredit him.

Kaczynski's married identical twin, Lech Kaczynski, is president of Poland.

The brothers, who founded Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party, won the country's presidential and parliamentary elections in 2005 after campaigning on an anti-corruption platform.

PiS has revived the anti-graft message in the latest election battle, which began after parliament was dissolved following the collapse of Jaroslaw Kaczynski's coalition government in August.

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[Jaga]

J. Kaczynski is probably the most wanted bachelor in Poland now

[zooba]

Jaga, I didn't know about it.

It all means he is not used to living in a modern world.

Can he use a computer?

...the most wanted bachelor .....

58 and living with his mother, who is not disabled.....

Perhaps there are few so desperate women in Poland....

[leslie]

When my friends ask me about the women in Poland, my answer which hasn't changed over a long period is that the vast majority of women are slim - young women, I haven't seen a fat one. This is all different from Britain. I have seen fat men and women in Warszawa and Krakow, but they have always been tourists (I won't say from which country, but it is not GB). This was one of my biggest surprises when I first started going to Poland and saw how much fatty foods they ate (and nobody dare mention smalec!!) - there must be something in this walking business! I try to avoid fatty foods but I still put weight on - it must be in my genes!

Leslie

[rdywenur]

I agree with Zooba. I would run fast in the opposite direction. I have never heard of such a thing. How can he handle a country if he can't even handle his own life. I do not find this attractive at all. Even if he found someone to marry I wouldn't be surprised if he still lived with his mother and stiil gave her his paycheck.

[Jaga]

leslie said:

When my friends ask me about the women in Poland, my answer which hasn't changed over a long period is that the vast majority of women are slim - young women, I haven't seen a fat one. This is all different from Britain. I have seen fat men and women in Warszawa and Krakow, but they have always been tourists (I won't say from which country, but it is not GB). This was one of my biggest surprises when I first started going to Poland and saw how much fatty foods they ate (and nobody dare mention smalec!!) - there must be something in this walking business! I try to avoid fatty foods but I still put weight on - it must be in my genes!

Leslie

Leslie,

this is just the exercise. People in Poland walk probably more. I wish I could say the same about me - although now I am the American citizen - if it would be in the genes I would not have any problem

[Jaga]

zooba said:

Jaga, I didn't know about it.

It all means he is not used to living in a modern world.

Can he use a computer?

...the most wanted bachelor .....

58 and living with his mother, who is not disabled.....

Perhaps there are few so desperate women in Poland....

Zooba,

he was still a cute little boy when he was in this movie I wish he took care of himself when adult.

Still, he has a power and this is what some women look into. The looks are not that important in men, the power, influence and money are.

Hope his mom would be a good mother in law, one never knows

[joyce]

Not having a driver's license is virtually unheard of. There are some of the older American ladies who do not have a driver's license because they have felt it was the man's business to take care & drive the family car. I know some ladies who do drive, but they won't put gas in their cars. My mother didn't drive until I was 16 years old. She always relied on my father to take her places. Of course that meant that food shopping was done with both spouses. I know that we, as kids, walked where ever we had/wanted to go. Since the family car was gone to work, we had to walk. A second car was a luxury.

Even after we raised our son, and when my car wasn't running-if I had business to take care of, I walked. It is good exercise...fresh air and one sees alot of things that people miss while driving a car. But it makes you select only certain groceries to bring home in a 20 minute walk.

Of course there are places that you need transportation for-such as if you live out in the country & need emergency medical assistant. Your nearest neighbor maybe up up the road a half mile away and they maybe be in a field cutting hay.

I do know of one young man who choses not to have a driver's license. But I don't understand his reasoning. I would rather be independent than be dependent on someone to take me where I need to go. Yeah, sure, no driver license fees nor the cost of maintaining a car, nor insurance, etc. But I would rather have the option of driving the car in the pouring down rain instead of walking.

Joyce TX

[bescheid]

I had not thought of this so much until arriving in North America {Canada and the States} that is familiar. It is one thing exampled by wide use of an auto and heavy transport vehicles.

Even as a child, I was on a Dreirad and later to a cycle as a young fellow. Then to operate a tractor/heavy transport {truck}and personal own a motorcycle/auto{Lloyd/Alexander/VW/Renault}.

It is difficult to Imagen to be with out our wheels. But, to each is a life of their own.

Charles