Posted by JDseller on December 01, 2010 at 19:06:39 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: OT Elderly Drivers posted by Adirondack case guy on December 01, 2010 at 17:28:38:
My Grand Mother got real bad at driving. She would only go to church and the grocery store. She would go into town and turn right at the light and drive two blocks and park at the story. A few years before she passed on I got a call from the town cop. He told me I had better stop her from driving. Reason being??? They had the street closed for a July fourth celebration. She wanted to go to the store on July third. She came to the light and made her right hand turn and drove to the store then parked. PROBLEM WAS they had the street blocked. Soooo she drove the two blocks on the side walk. She actually drove pretty good considering that they have these big flower pots every thirty feet that are only about nine feet from the store fronts. She never hit one. LOL
So Dad and my Aunts chickened out an I got the nomination to talk her out of driving any more. Since I was at the farm everyday. She was ninety-two at the time. You can guess how that went. So I just loosened the valve stem in one of her tires. So it would be flat whenever she went to go anywhere. That worked for about a week with her chewing me out every day for not "fixing" her tire right. So I "fixed" the tire and took the rotor button out of the distributer. That worked for about a month. I would put it back in and take her to the store. I then would sneak back in and remove it again. The end of that came when I was in the barn yard working and saw the local Chev. dealer"s rollback pull in to pick up her car. Had to fess up to them so they left. So I had to argue with her and I finally got her to not drive anymore. It really was not that big of a deal to her after she thought about it some. My Mom and Dad just lived across the road. Mom was a homemaker so she was almost always around for any emergencies. My wife and I lived just a half mile up the road. My wife was around raising our kids most of the time. So all she had to do to go most places was make one or two calls. She actually admitted several years later that she knew she was not safe driving but was scared of lossing her fredom. She lived at home until her death at ninty-six years old. Lived in the same farm house she and grandpa built for eighty years, that is right, they where married when she was sixteen.
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