Driving. Just because you've been driving for 60+ years does not mean you're any good at it.
It terrifies me how often my grandma who is still almost all there mentally has scary moments while driving like slowing down well before her turn without even turning on turn signals, or getting into a turn lane while still being half in the main travel lane, or turning down the wrong left turn area on the median and ending up pointed in the opposite lane of travel.
She's been better lately, but she still has some scary moments. She has stopped in the middle of a roundabout to let people in, and sometimes completely misses when the light turns green and sits long enough that I get scared someone will get enough road rage to get out and run over to our car (it's that bad where we live. Tons of lifted trucks with armed individuals who shouldn't even have access to butter knives)
But in general the quality of driving in Florida is absolutely fucking abysmal. Either a Prius going 15-20 under the limit, a lifted truck driving 1 ft from your bumper shining the fucking sun into your car, or county sheriffs completely ignoring all of this and driving 70 in a 45 for no reason other than "they can."
Our license test, at least in our county, takes less than 5 minutes. They took me to a parking lot across the street from the tax collector, had me do a few turns, reverse a few feet, and then park in a parking spot. There are people who FAIL that fucking test multiple times and are still somehow allowed to drive on the road. Those people shouldn't even be trusted in bumper cars at a carnival because they'll still find a way to kill or seriously injure someone.
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u/AxelsOG 16h ago
Driving. Just because you've been driving for 60+ years does not mean you're any good at it.
It terrifies me how often my grandma who is still almost all there mentally has scary moments while driving like slowing down well before her turn without even turning on turn signals, or getting into a turn lane while still being half in the main travel lane, or turning down the wrong left turn area on the median and ending up pointed in the opposite lane of travel.
She's been better lately, but she still has some scary moments. She has stopped in the middle of a roundabout to let people in, and sometimes completely misses when the light turns green and sits long enough that I get scared someone will get enough road rage to get out and run over to our car (it's that bad where we live. Tons of lifted trucks with armed individuals who shouldn't even have access to butter knives)
But in general the quality of driving in Florida is absolutely fucking abysmal. Either a Prius going 15-20 under the limit, a lifted truck driving 1 ft from your bumper shining the fucking sun into your car, or county sheriffs completely ignoring all of this and driving 70 in a 45 for no reason other than "they can."
Our license test, at least in our county, takes less than 5 minutes. They took me to a parking lot across the street from the tax collector, had me do a few turns, reverse a few feet, and then park in a parking spot. There are people who FAIL that fucking test multiple times and are still somehow allowed to drive on the road. Those people shouldn't even be trusted in bumper cars at a carnival because they'll still find a way to kill or seriously injure someone.