Brother and I went to the DOT and asked them to make my mother take the driving test as she was getting to where she did not drive well IMYO. Would have been a disastrous battle he and I taken it away from her.
JFC, does anyone work anymore?!
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My niece got broadsided by and 85 year old lady last night. The old lady ran a red light and was speeding.
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All jokes a salad, its for the best she's not driving anymore. Its frustrating for her and those that have to chauffeur her, but honestly it is likely saving her and other people from something disastrous.
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That's how you trick them to get inside.
"Grandma, check out the Buck Rogers capsule! Just gonna put the seat belt on ya and then close the lid . . . "
My grandfather couldn't see very well either. He would pull into his garage and stop when he "nudged" the front wall of the garage. Over time, that wall was pushed out over a foot from all of his nudges.
I never witnessed it but I was told he would also come to a stop sign and then just count to 10 and go. Thank God we lived out in the country of one of the least populated counties in the state.🫣
Gov. DeSantis gave all state employees off today, tomorrow and NYE. I have to head to Publix soon and I’m sure it’s going to be slammed.
The garage thing reminded me of a story. About 12ish years ago or so I had a couple buddies that lived together. One of them was an alcoholic (fortunately has been sober for multiple years now) that would drive drunk all too often. One night he pulled into the garage, went too far and hit a firepit, and pushed it almost completely through the back of the garage. He was so drunk he didn't even notice until he came out the next day. Then he yelled at his roommate for putting the firepit there.
The firepit had been there, not used or moved, for multiple years. Yet, he swore that someone put it there, and it wasn't his fault that he destroyed the back of the garage/csb
God damn, just hang a tennis ball from the ceiling and stop when you boop the tennis ball.
Don't ram into the ****ing wall old man.
When we were building the CF library, I saw an old lady driving the wrong way on a one way street behind the library. She was completely oblivious to everything going on around her.You should see how bad they **** up driving in the roundabouts here in CF. Immediately turn into this guy the second they come up on one
When I was in my early-mid 20's I was at a stop light in CR at the Collins Rd/1st Avenue intersection. I was heading towards Lindale Mall. There was a ton of construction going on near the Granite City side of the intersection. They had an entire lane coned off because the had not yet poured concrete there so that one lane was about 12-16 inches down from the rest of the road with a gravel base. It was VERY clearly marked which lane was open and which was closed. This happened right next to me as I was waiting for the light. This old lady in a minivan was making a turn, and drove over the cones and took her entire van off the 12-16 inch drop off. She then proceeded to drive until she couldn't anymore. Then the light turned, and I drove off. I'm sure it was fun getting that van out of there/csb
People may think I'm done for it, but that is exactly why I still look both ways when crossing a one-way. I see people driving the wrong way too often.
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I just saw the other day that this episode was based off of an actual time that Glenn Howerton got rear-ended while he was eating cereal at a stoplight/csbU
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Anyone who eats cereal with milk in their car deserves to have their car crashed into.
Sorry, you read like three of my stories and were nice about it. I shouldn't be so mean. It was a cool story, bro.
His system worked for him.😉 There was no ceiling in the garage, and I doubt he even knew what a tennis ball was. We're talking the late 50's before tennis became all that popular. Probably should have hung a baseball if the roof truss spacing had worked out. We're talking about an old detached country garage.
It was great that she was still driving because that meant they didn't have to take her everywhere.
lol exactly! Thats the realization I came to years later
She and her daughter were shaken up, but check at the hospital and released.
See, that I can buy. I was down on the farm last year looking for a little cut off we took into the fields and it was gone. I thought I'd lost my mind. Talked to my cousin and he said the county had done some drainage work years before and no more access on the south side of the land.
We waited too long with our mom. She had a fender bender, so we took her car to the shop to have the front quarter and headlight assembly repaired. We kept telling her the car was at the shop, hid the car at my brothers house, and eventually she stopped asking about it.
Honest question, do you have a f***ing job? As much as I appreciate your threads on every tangential thought that crosses your mind, but you don't seem to be afflicted with a job.
Yeah, we fixed the car once. Front fender and mirror. Dad vouched for her. said it was a parking post at WalMart. We checked paint color of post, and it matched. Second time the color was different and assumed it was a car color. Fixed it but proceeded to get the DOT involved.
My grandad lived about five blocks from his daily run to the Post Office. The last year or so that he drove a car, everybody in his little town got off of the sidewalk as he made a big wide 2 1/2 lane swing to make his turns.
His hips were real bad, so he would drag himself into the car and drive across the yard to get the paper from the box. We finally took the keys and he started running around on his riding mower. Down to the PO, over to the grocery store, out to the cemetary.
The ole boy would not give up.
His hips were real bad, so he would drag himself into the car and drive across the yard to get the paper from the box. We finally took the keys and he started running around on his riding mower. Down to the PO, over to the grocery store, out to the cemetary.
The ole boy would not give up.
My sis-in-law got rear ended by a 32 year old woman driving 50 mph on Merle Hay Road Sunday between Hickman and Urbandale…..as she was waiting to turn into her church’s parking lot. Totaled her car, (a 10 yr. Old Lexus with 88k miles on it)thankfully, other than being sore as hell, she escaped “ok”…..Accidents happen…….age isn’t the primary factor. Driver’s attention spans seem to be the issue.
Tailgating is worse than ever. It seems to really be a thing with young female drivers.
”tail gating”? Who said anything about tailgating…..speeding and lack of attention to driving are HUGE problems….Video showed my sister was stopped and waiting to turn for 5 secs before impact! It’s just carelessness. God damned 30something driver!
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