Blind, Senile Old Man in Pinto
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The old senile fart driving this Ford Pinto left his mind on the bus a few decades ago. He had one of those classic dark blue, 6 alphanumeric license plates last issued in the 70′s, or so I’ve been told. When he was pulling out of the Vons parking lot onto Pass Ave., it took him a good 10 seconds to make a sweeping wide right turn in front of us. Twice, he stopped completely perpendicular to traffic across both lanes, as he was likely slipping in and out of his dementia. Then as we were moving south, we were stuck behind his wrinkled ass going 10 mph tops….I sh*t you not, to say this guy was crawling is an understatement. We didn’t pass because we needed to make a left about 100 feet later, but that was seriously the longest 100 feet I’ve traveled in awhile. I think most cars these days go faster than this guy just by letting your foot off the brake and coasting in gear. We snapped this photo while stopped at Riverside and Pass. Let’s just hope grandpa didn’t get on the 134 Fwy at this point. In all seriousness, no one in their right mind could say this guy was fit to drive. On top of seriously slow reflexes and woefully deficient motor skills, he could barely see, as we saw him squinting with that stereotypical clueless super-senior citizen snarl on his face.
Filed under: clueless, observation, senior
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Aww. I know how frustrating it can be to be stuck behind someone like this, but I can’t help but feel badly for someone that old and feeble.
Reminds me of an elderly lady I encountered a few weeks ago. I was driving south on Sawtelle, approaching a red light at National in the right hand lane. I left a gap for this lady to pull out of the parking lot. She pulled out *painfully* slowly. When the light turned green, she slammed on the accelerator and gunned ‘er up to a whopping 20 mph in a 40 mph zone. Took a while before I was able to safely pass her and saw someone who was 2 inches away from the steering wheel and barely able to see over the top of the dashboard.
I agree with Joe, I feel bad for folks like these, they still need to get around somehow. But she’s putting herself and others in danger.
My Grandma, bless her, drove up till a month before she passed away in 2005. She had a few accidents before she got ill, her 1982 Honda Accord had 35,000 original miles. Car smelled new, it was always garaged. But the outside showed plenty of battle scars. We were trying to figure out how to get her off the road when she became ill.
BTW Mike, the yellow on blue plates came about in 1969-1970 and were issued until 1984 I think it was when the Olympic plates came out. Let me date you even further. My ’66 Olds 442 still has it’s original plates that are yellow on black which were from 1963-1969!
Thanks for the info, Ed!