Grown-assed women who can’t judge distances, and can’t tell when they’re about to reverse into another car.
If it was up to me, I’d ban some women from fucking driving altogether. Bastards.
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Grown-assed women who can’t judge distances, and can’t tell when they’re about to reverse into another car.
If it was up to me, I’d ban some women from fucking driving altogether. Bastards.
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katieM
July 21
10:50 pm
I just saw a People’s Court where a woman backed up across an entire parking lot, hit another car, and claimed she shouldn’t have to pay for damages. My 5 year old nieces walked in the room where I was watching TV and both said “Man, she needs some driving lessons!”
Old people should have their licenses revoked at age 80. I always think that people should take refresher courses (both written and driving) every 10 years until age 65. At 65 they should have to take the driving portion of the test every year. My grandmother is 85 years old and I cringe everytime she says she drove somewhere. My father says that as long as she feels confident, she should be able to drive. My aunts are both in their late 70’s and they won’t hesitate to drive across the state to the capital. One has had 3 accidents in the last year and neither her husband nor children think she should give up her license.
Marissa Scott
July 21
11:49 pm
Uh-oh.
Kat
July 22
1:08 am
A friend once watched as a driver, waiting at the lights, saw the light turn green, hit the accelerator…and rear-ended the car directly in front.
Don’t they have reverse sensor thingies now, where the reversing sound beeps faster the closer you get to something solid?
Angelia Sparrow
July 22
1:59 am
I’d ban about half the general public, men and women, from driving. And govern all cars out at a top speed of 60.
There is no excuse for some white-collar warrior in his Penis Substitute Vehicle to bull through traffic at 80 miles an hour on a Tuesday morning.
Nobody has any distance gauging skills. I can tell you horror stories about lost mirrors and scuffed bumpers because amateur drivers didn’t know they were too close to me.
Shiloh Walker
July 22
3:18 am
I’m ‘spacially’ challenged and I’m fine admitting that. However, I’m also aware of it and I make allowances and use extra care when the situation calls for it.
The thing that ticks me off about some drivers is the ones who can’t detach themselves from their cellphones long enough to drive, preferably without near-wrecks every half mile.
SamG
July 22
3:46 am
My Grandpa HIT my Grandma. He always gunned it to make sure it was running. Well, one day he gunned it w/her behind him and ran her down. I think he then panicked and grazed her again going forward into the parking spot.
My Great-Grandma would go out to the most rural outpost to take the driving test. Not as hard to pass when you don’t meet another car.
I had one accident on ice when I was just 18 and a rear-ender (Yes, I screwed up) in 1999. Other than that, I am o.k.
Sam
Laura
July 22
4:02 am
Gee Katie, why don’t we just shoot the old people so you aren’t inconvenienced by them anymore?
Sarah McCarty
July 22
4:04 am
I don’t know if I’d be blaming the women only. I’ve been in 5 accidents in my life and it’s been a man who has crashed into me, rear ended my car, T-boned m car, etc. And every time it’s happened when I’ve been at a stop sign or a Stop light.
Sarah, afraid to stop the car!
katieM
July 22
4:39 am
Laura
Posted: Jul 22nd, 2008 at 4:02 am
Gee Katie, why don’t we just shoot the old people so you aren’t inconvenienced by them anymore?
Nope, shooting would be cruel and useless. Taking away drivers’ licenses would ensure that they didn’t have accidents that would kill themselves or others. Taking their driver’s licenses and providing reliable safe transportation would be a compassionate thing to do that would allow them to maintain their independence.
As people get older, their eyesight changes, their reflexes get slower and they become physically weaker. People want to put limitations on teen drivers, but the truth is that seniors have more accidents that are fatal to other drivers. It’s only because they can vote and softies think it’s cruel to take away their licenses, that nothing is done to curtail senior driving. My grandmother has ten grandchildren who make time to drive her where she wants to go, but she still gets in her head to drive. She has cataracts, is 4’8″, and has osteoporosis. All the grandchildren – and greats who are of driving age- want her license pulled.
Tuscan Capo
July 22
4:40 am
Jesus SamG, did your Grandma survive?
Tuscan Capo
July 22
4:51 am
I agree that once you pass a certain age driving aptitude re-testing should be mandatory and often. In the US oldsters have the power and influence of the AARP on their side when it comes to legislation. Teens don’t have this so more is made of the numbers of accidents they are responsible for. But from from things I’ve heard and personally seen I feel their incapacities cause more accidents than insurance companies care to admit.
Lori
July 22
6:14 am
Oh no! That can’t be good news.
December Quinn/Stacia Kane
July 22
9:39 am
Totally agree on stricter driving tests or mandatory annual tests for those over a certain age.
I once worked with a woman who would not drive in reverse. It terrified her and she would not do it. Which meant she constantly parked perpendicular to all of us, behind us, in the small office lot. Which meant every lunch break we had to go find her and get her to move her damned van so we could leave. Used to make me so mad I could hardly see straight. If you’re that freaking scared to drive in reverse, perhaps you’re not really mature enough to handle a car at all.
Ima
July 22
3:00 pm
” Totally agree on stricter driving tests or mandatory annual tests for those over a certain age.”
Oh no, don’t you know? You can’t do that! It’s age discrimination. And yet, drivers under 18 are put thru the wringer (not saying they do/don’t deserve it . . I am just saying . . . ) Isn’t that also age discrimination?
Oh, doh, I know why it’s okay . . . people under 18 can’t vote, so who cares what they think/want. @@ But don’t mess with the seniors who vote! @@
TracyS
July 22
4:02 pm
I hear you Karen.
Shiloh, my mom is lacking good depth perception, but like you is extra careful when driving. NO accidents in 35 years of driving!
This will probably get me in trouble but. . . . the people I have the most problem with the way they drive (too fast, bulldozing their way through a parking lot, ignoring traffic rules, etc) are usually driving the high end cars. As if being rich means you can do whatever the hell you want. Makes me nuts.
Nonny
July 22
6:06 pm
*meep*
I have shitty depth perception… but I know it and I account for it. People give me shit because I leave a whole lot of extra space when parking or the like (and I will not parallel park), but I’d rather that than end up backing into someone!
SamG
July 22
6:20 pm
Capo,
Yes, she was o.k. He did stop driving (though I don’t know if it was that day or just soon after). He truly had always been a very careful man. Just the age catching up with him.
I can understand not wanting to lose freedom and autonomy. I don’t really blame older people for not wanting to stop or give up driving. I hope when I hit the age that my driving suffers, I can give up gracefully.
Sam
Tuscan Capo
July 22
6:32 pm
Thank goodness for that, SamG.
Here’s a couple of stories that I think makes the case for the mandatory testing of senior drivers (and also the need for fitting penalties when they kill people):
http://www.kmox.com/Elderly-Driver-Pleads-Guilty-in-Deadly-School-Wrec/754680
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/us/21sentence.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/A/Aged
Alexandra
July 22
6:42 pm
My grandmother voluntarily stopped driving when she realized she just couldn’t handle it anymore (she was in her 70s, I believe).
And age has less and less to do with it–in my short driving career (four years) I have never caused an accident or gotten a ticket, whereas I have been rear-ended by a college student who thought, and I quote “you were going to ignore the red light.” I was nearly sideswiped by an elderly man getting on the freeway, and the father of my brother’s classmate drives a huge truck and likes to gun it in a cramped school parking lot. Yesterday, a woman in her mid-thirties nearly mowed down my dad and I as we left the gym–at first she was going to turn right, but then she decided to floor forward without looking, and then glared where we were crossing the parking lot (keep in mind there were also several other people crossing too).
Don’t get my started on the people using cell phones. I don’t care if you use handless sets, your attention is still on your phone call.
AztecLady
July 22
7:24 pm
My mother is in her early 70s and I’m terrified that she’s still driving–particularly because she lives in Mexico City, where driving at any age is a Russian roulette anyway.
If it were up to me, I would definitely want seniors to have driving tests once a year past a certain age–but then I would also like to get people driving without licenses off the streets.
shirley
July 22
10:27 pm
OMG, ditto this. That’s my biggest pet peeve. Not once, in my life thank-you-very-much, have I caused a single accident. I’ve had a speeding ticket or two – especially when I was younger, bit of a lead foot here, LOL. But cell phone drivers really piss me off. I’m sure there are people who can drive and chat at the same time, no problem, but I can’t ever seem to be driving near those folks.
ChristineP
July 23
12:57 am
Actually, it’s my husband who’s had all the accidents, speeding tickets, etc.
However, my mother was an absolute menace. She kept insisting that she could handle driving (at the time she was in her late 70s), yet she somehow managed to have a series of minor fender-benders that luckily didn’t hurt anyone but could have. It wasn’t until she drove into a parked fire truck that we kids were finally able to pry the car keys out of her hand.
It scares me to realize that there are hundreds more just like her still out on the road…
Heather Holland
July 23
3:38 pm
I’m 32 and I no longer drive. I do have a valid driver’s license, but I’ve not driven in probably close to two years now. My choice because of my health issues. I felt it wasn’t safe for me to drive anymore, so I don’t. It can be a pain at times, but I’d rather be safe than sorry especially when it comes to having my kids in the car.
Anon76
July 23
5:10 pm
Worst elderly driver I ever saw:
What looked to be an Octegenarion male whose eyesight was so bad he would cross fully into the oncoming lane every block or so. Why? Because he couldn’t read the street signs to find the road he wanted.
This was years ago, and I swear if I’d have had a cell phone I’d have speed dialed the cops. The other temptation was to follow him to his destination, yank the keys from his car, and fling them as far as I could. But of course he’d probably have charged me with assault.
Instead I stayed far far behind him and kept the traffic behind me curtailed until he made his turn. It was the only thing I could think of to do.