Ok, I seem to be getting behind some slowass old folks lately. The way I figure it, if you're 65+, you could go anyday. So why aren't they in a hurry to get where they're going? Look, gramps, you're 77, start driving at least 75, cuz you're on, actuarily speaking, borrowed time.
126547
SURE WHY NOT.. MY MOM HAS ALZIHEIMERS AND BEFORE WE KNEW SHE HAD IT (SHE ACTED REALLY WILD IN THE EARLY EARLY STAGES) SHE WOULD DRIVE LIKE A SPEED DEMON BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS YOUNG AND ALSO SHE THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE FOLLOWING HER LOL LOL
464353
Wait until you're 62!!
296205
I think it is not only elderly that have this sense of impatience...I think it is American culture in general. We feel are lives are more important then anyone else and we push and push our way through this world. It happens at grocery stores, on the freeways and in the street. Oh, I have to get this done, because I have this to do. Not taking a moment to think that maybe the person next to you may have even more important things to do than yourself...We are a selfish culture!
628821
It's not that the driving age is low it's the the way they teach the drivers ed classes they don't get enough of the workbook part of the class before they begin to drive. They should be in the classroom longer before they go on their first driving lesson. Someone was telling me their child only had 2 classes and was out driving already it should be a lot more.
202524
I don't know what article you read, probably propagana for whatever purpose the writer only knows. I'm over 40 years old, and out of all the people I've ever met in my entire lifetime, maybe 1 or 2 had a million dollars in savings. I've probably met almost a million, and the ones that had a million, were driving in their car past me. (if I ever did meet anyone with a million, I didn't know it).
622798
They will always be there. Even if it's 20 years back or more. It will never leave you and it shouldn't. Don't operate a vehicle while you are impaired.
606816
I'd say no, leave them alone.  Alot of senior citizens are just trying to hang on to some independence.  And alot of times, it's imperative for them to be able to get around to doctor's appointments and to do their own food shopping and things like that.  We're never going to be able to remove all unsafe drivers from the road.  We all know that young, road-rage filled, inexperienced, drivers cause even more accidents than seniors do.  Should we remove all them as well by making a law saying you have to be 25 years old before you can drive?  Of course not.  That would be ridiculous.  Leave the seniors alone.  If we looked into each and every car on the road, probably most of us shouldn't be driving for one reason or another.  But hey.  We live in a free society (supposedly).  We need to have tolerance for one another, not more laws.
671812
Actually, they can drive, it's you who can't! They know this so they drive slow knowing you will go around them. And if you don't, they get to sue your parents insurance company as you get to watch your parents insurance evaporate before your very eyes! \n\nWith age comes wisdom.
609847
I think it's cool. I hope I'm romping on the beach in my sixties, with the love of my life. I would have expressed my newfound admiration and respect, lol. More power to them. And extra points for their lack of shame, and their sense of humour. Why do we think older people  don't have bodies, or desires? It's weird.
82095
No, I don't.  I think he is getting old just like I am.  Maybe that is all he can manage to do at his age.  I know I am limited anymore as to what I can or cannot do.  Sucks, too.
357813
I'm 43, give me a call.  Or just email me.  I've gone without since 1991, for reasons beyond my control, so I'll take any age (unless you are 12.  Then I would have to pass)
300273
someone pulls in front of me in traffic which causes me to slow down and get stopped at the next light............also when telemarketers call and ask "may i speak to the woman of the house", no woman lives here............and when the checkout girl.guy at the supermarket goes sooooooo slow.........need to relax don't I, damm
448900
I was in a huge empty parking lot early in the morning,delivering dairy products to a market.Where the parking lot ends there is a small hill that goes down to another lot ,they were terraced,but walkable with a little effort.I'm writing in my invoice book ,when I hear a grunt.I turn around and here's this like 75 year old lady trying to walk up the hill instead of walking parallel and going to the sidewalk.I say "Oh,let me help you Ma'am." And I reach down ,take her hand and tug her up the hill.She thanks me and walks away very feebly.I look back at my invoice(pre-hand held computer days),glance back up and she is gone.Now there is nothing around for two hundred yards all around.I even walked around the truck and scanned everywhere,no old lady...vanished.That was 1988 and it still stumps me today.I think we get little tests like that now and then,just to see if we walk the walk.
449371
The "old ways" where stolen from us by the advertising industry. Think about it. In the "old days" if a family had a car, enough food on the table and decent clothing, they where considered a success. Now, you are convinced you need at least 2 cars (one being a massive 4 wheel drive) fast food 4 nights a week, the latest in designer trends ad nauseum. A family with a parent working as a skilled laborer in this country makes plenty enough money to support that family under the "old" definition of success. Not even 2 skilled laborers can keep up with all they are told they "need" to feel good about themselves
636206
Some older people remember things as they were when they where young. My Granda used to talk to his wife - she died when she was 35 and my dad (the oldest of 9) was 14. But he had a hard life - god love him! I always remember him saying to me...\n\n'Be nice to the old cause someday you'll be old too'\n\nStrange when you think of it like that isn't it??
230094
When I was a teenager, 50 was old.\nAfter I was 30, 60 seemed to be old.\nAs I reached 40, 65 and retirement looked old.\nAt the time I reached retirement age, I set 80 as being old.\nBut I changed my mind on that to, and to make sure that I stay in shape, I'm on the bike for an hour every day. I go swimming, work in the garden, and build garden furniture in my workshop.\nI have come to the conclusion, that "OLD" is only in your mind. You will get a little slower, and some things don't work as well any more in your later years, but if you have grandchildren, there is no time to get old.
541881
I completely agree.. and have wondered that myself.. I had a bad year last year with getting speeding tickets.. I went from having a perfect driving record to getting 3 speeding tickets.. two for going  under 10 mph over the speed limit.. one was for 6 mph over and one was for 8 mph and one I wasn't even speeding and claimed I was going 15 over the speed limit.. I took that one to court and of course lost, because traffic court apparently is a joke.. anyways.. so I see all these cops speeding down the road, I now go the speed limit or under.. no more 5 over and they cruise past me.. I think they actually get aggravated that I'm going the speed limit when they are behind me.. alot of the cops I see speeding are ones that live in a different county (my county), then where they work, so you know they aren't on a call, they are just going to work.. what really upset me one day was this motorcycle cop was speeding past everyone, passing people left and right, it looked like he was in an emergency situation, only further down the road for him to pull off on the side of the interstate and whip out a radar gun.. I was so aggravated I wrote the city police dept and of course got the run around.. about police officers being responsible for their own speed.. blah blah... so yeah I don't think it's fair.. I think they need to obey the laws just like everyone else.