it's a silver 6cyl automatic convertible. I think they make that car specifically for old ladies.

Proud2B_American: I live in Mass, so I am really not getting a kick out of this. If they try to pass a law requiring blue hairs to get road tested..how long before the aclu starts their pissing and moaning.
It'll be "Oi, how can you just test the elderly...this isn't right"

It's AARP that's lobbying against this one.

Aww, c'mon... who never tried to go in through the out door? You just need a little butter.

That's what she said!

Just watched the local (Boston) news. The police say there are no signs of breaking and the driver "Can't remember" what happened. There may have been signs of acceleration on the curb out in front of the store.

FTFA: Slattery said the driver of the car "didn't remember what happened" after the crash.

Back in 2005, an 87 year old man smashed into the rear left quarter of my wife's car as she was crossing a road on a green light. He sailed through the red light and hit her at full speed, 55 MPH -- no brakes, no attempt to stop or swerve. My wife was almost killed in the accident. Had she been a half a second slower coming across the intersection, he would have smashed directly into her driver's door.

My wife's mother came to the accident scene as the paramedics and police were doing their thing. The old man -- who didn't even have a scratch on him -- was standing on the side of the road, and he told my mother-in-law that he didn't remember having the accident. (His insurance company eventually determined that he had no business driving and took actions to have his driver's license revoked.)

Bull-f*cking-sh*t he didn't remember having the accident! He wasn't knocked unconscious like my wife was. After smashing into her, he got out of his car just fine. He was conscious and fully awake and aware the whole time. But when the police were taking statements, he couldn't remember having the accident. It seems like this is SOP for old people who do something stupid -- just say they don't remember doing it, and somehow that makes it all right. If you are so damned feeble that you don't remember plowing into something/someone with your car, then you need to give up driving altogether. If your memory is that bad, you need to be sitting in a nursing home staring at the TV, not driving on the open road.

BTW ... Almost 4 years later, my wife is still suffering the pain of the accident. She's had surgeries, consultations, physical therapy, etc. The old coot who hit her? He died a couple of years ago. His insurance company has been dragging out the settlement proceedings and my wife has had to sue his estate. There have been hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, countless hours of missed work, almost continuous pain, and the experience has in some profound ways changed my wife's life forever.

And all the old bastard had to say for himself was, "I don't remember the accident."

So just what are you trying to say, little man? You don't like Zep?

Tell the Massachusetts gits to be thankful they have bus systems that the elderly can take when their licenses are not renewed. If I wanted to take a bus to work it'd take meFOUR HOURS one way and two of the lines don't run on weekends - not an option as I work in a hospital. I really dread a day I might not pass a driving test because then I'd be isolated and unable to support myself

And nursing homes ain't no option for Boomers; piss on that.

All that is not forbidden is mandatory
All that is not mandatory is forbidden

Obscure?

cry0fan: All that is not forbidden is mandatory
All that is not mandatory is forbidden

What does it mean that I first read that as "masturbatory"?

alfuso: If I wanted to take a bus to work it'd take meFOUR HOURS one way and two of the lines don't run on weekends - not an option as I work in a hospital.

Well, you know, when I don't like my commute to work... I move closer to work.

Oznog: Obscure?

.kraf no erucsbo si gnihtoN

sure monkeyboy666, move closer to work. Sell my $100k house and try to find something under $200k near work. Just like that. Take on a new mortgage at age 62. Find a job close To home. when people are glued to any job they are lucky to hold

Looking forward to retiring in, oh, never after the market ate 50 percent of everything I'd saved


did reality leave you at the bus stop?

Awhile back I started collecting articles about accidents involving the elderly to prove they were a danger to society.

Who cares, though?

alfuso: Looking forward to retiring in, oh, never after the market ate 50 percent of everything I'd saved

You should retire, since you've obviously reached the crotchety old fart stage of your life.

And I knew right away you were a product of Florida, since you think "closer" means "directly next to."

yesanded: Who cares, though?

Not the elderly.


/I bet farmers market vendors would care
//A post office by me was half demolished by an elderly driver
///During the rebuild they installed reinforced concrete posts around the perimeter

Gas, brake. Brake, gas. After you pass 80 it's all the same.

Friend of mine used to fly B-24s for the Navy. That's not an easy plane to fly. Well, guess what. He turned 80something and it happened to him too.

Reality- I Can't afford it. No one is hiring close to home (no I won't change careers at this stage)
I was raised in Boston and "far" to that lot is 5 miles. I've crossed FL for lunch and back.

Move closer, get a job closer is not realistic for me

If you've never been to FL then you can't judge it. I have been to Boston and it's burbs.

Monkeyboy666: How old are you? I'm 40, and have less to lose than alfuso.

But that's beside the point. I just came for the Zeppelin references.

/Zoso

Fark Me To Tears

In Massachusetts a seizure or unexplained loss of consciousness while driving is a license suspension. You can apply for reinstatement if your doctor says it hasn't happened again for six months.

"I was tired" or "I drank too much" is an explained loss of consciousness, not a medical condition, and if you lose your license it won't be due to the medical condition policy.

only if the exit is on the left