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Originally Posted by Viffermike
Or: It's easy to say after your age-69 father refuses to let you drive even though he can barely feel his feet due to diabetes (among several reasons) so you ride shotgun and are almost killed via T-bone not once but twice during a 20-minute drive because your father can't feel the pedals and routinely either presses too hard or (no exaggeration) hits the wrong pedal.
(Run-on sentence intended.)
Yeah, that was the last time I rode in a car with either of my folks. He had no business driving -- and he had too much pride to do the smart thing and let his son drive. Sh*t like that kills people.
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Fair enough.
My parents are barely 50 so I haven't experienced that.