[OneRatToGo]

My 94 year old Mom no longer drives. She was out on the roads at 93 and stopped by my house during a rain/snow event during the Winter of 2012. She walked in the kitchen door unannounced before I had put down the floor mats and slipped and broke her hip. The doctor told her after hip surgery she shouldn’t drive any more.

Before that her car used to get those mystery dents which she would have no idea how they occurred. One time a Police Officer followed her home and told her she had hit a mailbox. She still claims the copy was wrong.

To this day she hasn’t forgiven her sons for taking away her car. Our consolation is knowing that other people on the roads are a little safer now.

[muir_redwoods]

My 89 year-old MIL drove into a parked 18- wheeler in a parking lot she didn’t see. Although it was driveable, her car was totaled by the insurance company. She wanted to keep driving it until I asked her if she could see a trailer truck how likely is it that she wouldn’t see a 10 year-old? She never drove again.