Do you know any 80 something year olds

[kozmiq 70]

My grandpa is 81 years old. I love him to death but I'm not sure he should be driving an automobile on the highway.

 

Today, I worked only a half day so I decide to go jogging this afternoon. It was in the high 70s with hardly any humidity.

I took a route around by Riverbend Golf & Country Club where very little traffic is and no stores or businesses. But about halfway into a 1 hour circuit, it started raining out of the blue. So I'm getting soaked and heading back I see my grandpa driving towrds my house. As he approaches, I'm waving and yelling for him to stop but he waves and drives right on by.

So when I finally get back home, the rain has let up some and my grandpa is sitting in my driveway. As he's getting out of his car he tells me he just saw another jogger.

I said grandpa IT WAS ME! Why didn't you stop and pick me up.

Poor guy didn't even know it was me.

 

[Electric Mayhem 35]

One of my Mom's friends is 92 and still drives

[kozmiq 70]

One of my Mom's friends is 92 and still drives

 

 

 

Ninety focking two! WOW!

[Electric Mayhem 35]

 

Ninety focking two! WOW!

 

I've never met her, but supposedly she is still "all there" and living it up. We should all be so lucky.

[Sergeant Bri 0]

I know of a guy.

 

There's a crusty old guy on another bored laughing his ass off about driving right by his grandson in a rainstorm and pretending he didn't recognize him.

 

The wiseass assclam got totally soaked!

[hdaddy 18]

Yeah, I know 'em. I live with 75% of them down here in South Fla. The months of Nov- Apr the percentage increases to 95%.

[kozmiq 70]

I know of a guy.

 

There's a crusty old guy on another bored laughing his ass off about driving right by his grandson in a rainstorm and pretending he didn't recognize him.

 

The wiseass assclam got totally soaked!

 

 

Assclam? I don't know.

But clammed ass, I'd agree. Clammed up tight.

[joeshushu 51]

My dad is 79 and still drives. He can't understand why people blow the horn at him all the time. The scary part is he comes and goes all day long at the house. He doesn't go out one time a day but at least five or six times a day. Usually to the local watering hole to get beer or to the drug store, or the grocery store, or the handy man store, or to get the latest gossip. He came home one day with the car all scrapped up and couldn't remember hitting anything. He won't stay home and do yard work or something he always has to be somewhere in the car. I think he is afraid he is going to miss something.

[kozmiq 70]

My dad is 79 and still drives. He can't understand why people blow the horn at him all the time. The scary part is he comes and goes all day long at the house. He doesn't go out one time a day but at least five or six times a day. Usually to the local watering hole to get beer or to the drug store, or the grocery store, or the handy man store, or to get the latest gossip. He came home one day with the car all scrapped up and couldn't remember hitting anything. He won't stay home and do yard work or something he always has to be somewhere in the car. I think he is afraid he is going to miss something.

 

 

 

My grandpa is the same way. Goes out 5-10 times a day. He lives in McLean and drives the back roads to my house in Great Falls just to say hi.

Once as he was leaving my place he turned out of my driveway a little too soon and into the ditch but he gunned it and got out. Kept going. Never mentioned it afterwards.

[joeshushu 51]

Well if I live that long, very doughtful. I guess I have aimlessly driving around the neighborhood to look forward to.

[Juniper 0]

My old man is 79 and drives fine: Fast enough, uses the left lane only to pass, decent vision even without glasses, no horrible accidents in over 60 years except a few fender benders, DOESN'T LEAVE HIS FVCKING TURN SIGNAL ON FOR HOURS AT A TIME, turns up the A/C, blasts a C&W music CD, always signals and takes real good care of his cars. Him and Mom still drive over 1000 miles to Florida after Christmas and trek 500 miles round trip to our summer home half a dozen times per season. What bugs me when some 85 year old mutt drives their car through a store window or mows down a crowd of pedestrians is the newspaper article claims "They became disoriented and mistook the gas pedal for the brakes" more than 50% of the time.

 

Never drive close to or behind an old man wearing a hat or a little old lady who can't see over the dashboard.

[JT 137]

Wife's grandmother drove until she was 94 (just around our small town in the final 10 years or so). Got a speeding warning in her early 80's (45 in a 30-35 mph zone).

 

One day she called me at work and said I better come home; she had "bumped" the house with her car. In fact, her front end was in our family room. She had driven through a big window. Apparently not fast but, once she hit it, panicked and kept grinding away.

 

When I walked in the door, she said "I'll never drive again" and handed me her keys. Last she ever spoke of it. I sold her 9 year old Honda with 11,000 miles in about three hours.

 

My friend's grandfather is 94 and still drives locally. Does pretty well, all things considered, but scares the hell out of us. But, of the three of us, he's the only one that doesn't have to wear glasses!

[SUXBNME 1,499]

My grandpa is 81 years old.

 

I bet Siouxsie would fock him

[frank 2,304]

Where else would they drive cars?

[DuckStupid 40]

yeah

[kilroy69 1,247]

My grandfather is 87 and still drives.