It's exhausting riding with a 95yo driver

[Rastoff]

I had to take my car in for diagnostics. Unfortunately, I had to leave it. My next door neighbor just happened to be in the area and offered to pick me up. He's 95, lonely and didn't want to go straight home. So, we went for breakfast and then to a couple of stores in town.

He almost ran two red lights. If I hadn't been there he would have.
He almost rear ended several cars stopping in front of him.
He got in a left turn lane and then proceeded straight.
On the freeway he was going 50MPH when the limit was 65MPH.
He stopped in the middle lane of a three lane road (divided road with three lanes in our direction) to look at a store. I mean stopped, not just slowed down.
He ran over at least two curbs.

I'm telling you, I'm exhausted. I have no idea how I'm going to get my car back, but I'm not getting a ride from him.

 

[Rpg]

Either you're a very good sport or you really needed a ride.

Check out Uber or Lift for a ride back to get your car.

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

He knew what he was doing, he was just heart checking you.

 

[RobertJ.]

When I was 18, my mom, my aunt, my cousin (who was the same age as me) and I drove down the coast to San Jose to see my grandparents. My mom and my aunt warned my cousin and I, "If your Grandpa Elmer wants to take you for a drive, don't go!"

He wasn't 95, but apparently he wasn't a very good driver either!

 

[PatAz]

One thing that I hope i never have to do.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

It's called situational unawareness.....You've got to educate him and use CC as a sort of analogy....Some people can handle a gun, and sometimes it's best to call the police when they can no longer shoot safely.

It's hard for the elderly to give up their independence. But maybe it's time to bite the bullet..(pun intended)

WuzzFuzz

 

[bigwheelzip]

When my mother got to the point she was a danger to herself and others, I took advantage of a NYDMV program that allows you to request that someone be retested. He took her license on the spot. She complained mightily but got over it.

 

[arjay]

We took dads keys and for the most part he simply forgot about driving (Alzheimer's).Mom has gotten in the habit of asking me to run errands for her,so she recognizes at 85 it's probably time to stop.I had a neighbor,in her late 70s that killed a kid on a motorcycle by turning left in front of him.Some people don't know it's time to quit and someone needs to make that move.

 

[Salty RI]

Don't complain some day we will all be like that.

 

[daniel lawecki]

Tell me about it my friend Howard drives the same way. He's 74 or so everytime he drives to the gun club I want to kiss the ground when I get home. My name is Dan and he calls me Kirk another friends name.

 

[BC38]

Tell me about it my friend Howard drives the same way. He's 74 or so everytime he drives to the gun club I want to kiss the ground when I get home. My name is Dan and he calls me Kirk another friends name.

That's a ride I wouldn't take more than once....

 

[DeathGrip]

A man's gotta know his limitations.

 

[Chuck24]

Self driving cars are on the way, hope it's soon enough.

 

[GaryS]

"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car!"

 

[LVSteve]

That's a ride I wouldn't take more than once....

I have a cousin younger than me and I've ridden with her twice, the first and last time.

 

[nachogrande]

SHIP HIM TO FL

He will blend right in here in Gods waiting room. When I first met my future wife my friends all warned her not to get in a car with me driving. I was only 40 y/o at the time.

 

[gman51]

I can laugh only because I wasn't in the car. They took my grandfathers drivers license away from him when he was caught going southbound on I-75 north when leaving Detroit for Ohio. I don't know how he got back to Ohio but he didn't drive again and he was not a happy camper about it. I think his last car was a used 56 Chevy Bel Air 4 door.

 

[amazingflapjack]

his sounds more like a Florida tale. Do him, and everyone else a favor, and drop a dime on him-there has to be a way.

 

[G.T. Smith]

I drive an elderly friend to the doctor now and then when he gets a shot in his lower spine for some reason. We usually take his truck and I often wonder if I scare him like that. He don't ever complain though. I used to love driving but now not so much.
Peace,
gordon

 

[BC38]

"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car!"

Beat me to it!