First time I remember driving I was 10 years old. My old man took me out to the floodway, south of Winnipeg. He got out and took our black lab for a walk, told me to stay on the upper level and go drive along the dirt trails, and he would be back in about 45 minutes. We had a 1971 Mercury Meteor at the time, and that was pretty much how I learned to drive. By the time I was 12 or 13 I was going to the store by myself on weekends and sometimes I drove home when he had been drinking. I drove about halfway from Winnipeg to Montreal and back when I was around 14. Got my license on my 16th birthday, even drove to the testing center.