KARMA'S A BITCH (a little X-rated)
It'll Be OK.
When I was a young person, I hate to admit it, I actually thought older people shouldn’t drive. As a kid, I remember being horrified the time my grandmother drove up a steep hill with her emergency brake on, and smoke poured out from under her hood.
During midlife, I was still nervous about older people driving. For nearly twenty years my mom would pick my sister & me up at the Ft Myer’s airport for our week-long retreat on Sanibel.* Every year my husband would call me just as my mom turned onto Tree Line Drive and ask, “Is she in the left- hand lane yet?” I would always laugh, wink at my sister and answer in code, “Yep, we just LEFT the airport.”
A seasoned beach-goer, my mom knew there were two more left- hand turns on our 25-mile trek to Sanibel so she insisted on driving slowly and staying in the left lane the whole way. Each time a younger driver sped by us on the right shouting obscenities or flipping us off, my sister and I tried to hide our faces. We knew our eighty-year-old mother was going to yell “Asshole” out the window.
Sadly, there are on average 6 million car accidents in the U.S. every year. That's roughly 16,438 per day. I was sure Senior Citizens were causing most of them, but The United States Census Bureau says novice drivers cause significantly more car accidents than seniors. They calculate 12.2 percent of car accidents are the responsibility of teen drivers while 7.5 percent of accidents are caused by drivers over 65.
Who knew my mom was safer than that kid who passed us on the right?
Personally though, I still watch out for old drivers. I’m not taking any chances. That’s why when I was at Wal Mart the other day, I pulled forward out of my parking space really slowly. I don’t know where it came from, but a car suddenly appeared on my right. The young driver honked his horn, rolled his eyes and flipped me off.
“Asshole”
“My slow transformation into becoming my mother has somehow picked up speed.” ~Lisa Newlin
( No new blogs next week because I will be “retreating” to Sanibel Island with MY grown daughter. Wish me luck! Ha! )
HAVE YOU NOTICED ANY OF YOUR PARENTS’ TRAITS IN YOURSELF ?
Two of a Kind
I hear my mother coming out of my mouth on a regular basis. She always had her driver's license, but never drove. My grandmother on the other hand, regularly scraped her car on the side of her own garage. I used to make fun of them both.....now, not so much. LOL.
How how you made me laugh. Im not much better I go to work and give myself only 20 min to get there. In the process I have a lead foot saying come on people get going. Im horrible my mom states I’m just like my brother who drives just like me. If we were in Nascar we would be calling get out of the way Asshole. But then someone would probably spin us and we end up in a fight ha ha. Thanks so much for making me laugh.