The last time my grandma drove, she was coming to our house ( 2 miles) for dinner and was late. No cell phones back then but eventually she showed up.
She told us she was pulled over for speeding. We looked at her ticket, was driving 76MPH in a 35MPH zone. She had a 94 Caviler, unsure how she could even have got it that fast. Well, that was the last time we let her drive, my brother ended up with her car and grandma duty.
She also got her ticket dismissed, the police officer decided he wasn't going to show and deal with her when she for some reason fought it.
My first car was a 94 cavalier…let’s just say it was not hard to get them going well over 100mph. The trickiest part was keeping it on the road because of the shaking. I did once (barely) outrun a tornado in it, though.
Not my first car but was my brother's and I drove it from San Diego to Houston when he got deployed in 2004. The radiator blew up just outside of Tucson and I had to spend three days there while it got fixed. Luckily I had friends at the University of Arizona and could sleep on their floor. Also could only afford to buy one used tape. So I listened to Dark Side of the Moon on repeat from Tucson to Houston
because they were a steel tank. Mass times acceleration = force. My first car was my mom's 89 chevy wagon (in 1999), it had an all metal outside and it weighed 2-3x what modern cars weigh. My parents wanted me to have it bc it was one of the safest, most solid cars on the road.
But all that weight sure as hell sped up fast on the downhills. Everyoen called me a speed demon until I traded that care for a horrible 4-cylendar POS saturn that you had to turn off the A/C to go up a hill. For the FRUSTRATION of trying to pass on the turnpike.
Haha, it was really scary and in a time before smart phones. I was heading out to my dad’s for a visit and thought the sky looked odd, but didn’t think much about it. The sirens went off when I was on the highway and I remember looking up and seeing it directly behind me aways back. I managed to put some decent distance between me and it, but it sure did feel like it was chasing me. I took the turn off to my dad’s and it started catching up because I had to drive perpendicular to it for about 10 mins. I got to his house just as the winds really picked up…I remember my car getting rocked with it. Ran into the house and straight into a closet, lol, to ride it out.
Im super glad this is one of the top comments. I really feel for the guy in the video, but i live in a town where over 75% of the population is retired and im sorry to say, but its a big problem on the roads. Im not saying its their fault entirely, there should be more resources available for seniors in my opinion. But everyone in my family knew my grandfather was incapable of driving safely since before i was born and yet he was too stubborn and no one else had the wherewithal to actually stop him, even though he had other options for transportation (unlike many) and nobody had the guts or nerve to actually stop him.
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u/Sirlothar Feb 27 '25
The last time my grandma drove, she was coming to our house ( 2 miles) for dinner and was late. No cell phones back then but eventually she showed up.
She told us she was pulled over for speeding. We looked at her ticket, was driving 76MPH in a 35MPH zone. She had a 94 Caviler, unsure how she could even have got it that fast. Well, that was the last time we let her drive, my brother ended up with her car and grandma duty.
She also got her ticket dismissed, the police officer decided he wasn't going to show and deal with her when she for some reason fought it.