More times than not, I get frusterated with older drivers. You know who I’m talking about. The grandpa that is driving next to you and slowly starts drifting into your lane… the grandma in her huge cadillac where she can barely see over the wheel, and she’s going about 10 mph in a 45 mph zone and you can’t pass her. That old person. The one where you usually say “They should NOT be on the road.”

And I’d be all for anyone over the age of 60 having to be retested for driving. I’m not saying we need to stick them in a car and make them doing parallel parking tests, but I don’t see anything wrong with a vision and hearing test. Maybe even some sort of simulated reflex test. I have no issues with my driving–it’s everyone else that I’m worried about.

With all of that said, yesterday I saw an older gentlemen driving down the street. He was probably going the speedlimit and was driving ok in his Caddy. Nothing that stood out to me… until some 20-something ahole driving a huge, rusty pickup truck almost ran grandpa off the road. He was swerving in and out of traffic on a 25 mph road that had 2 lanes of traffic. Come on… cutting in front of anyone, regardless of their age, and scaring them is kind of a moron move. Poor grandpa probably almost soiled himself while trying to keep control of his car and not run it into the front yard of a house on the road.

I don’t know… it just made me want to giive odler drivers a second chance–because maybe it’s not always them that are responsible for the image of older drivers being bad drivers.