OK, was about 11am on a hot day in June, I followed a car into the median in my old jobs work truck, there was 1 car infront of me, a Toyota Highlander or whatever. The coast is clear so she starts to go, so I start to go; she changes her mind and stops, I also stop but I hit her at a speed that was so incredibly slow I can't believe I caused damage. I could have done WAY MORE damage with a single punch to her bumper but whatever, it was my own fault so I got a ticket for like, 80 bux and I signed up for the class to get the points erased from my record.
This Saturday I went to the class for it, I was running a lil behind so I took the bike so I could make up the time. During the beginning everybody, sigh, stands and says their name, wtf happened and how much the ticket was. I was the ONLY PERSON who #1 - had a story that didn't exceed 2 minutes and #2 admitted I was entirely at fault for the ticket. Half of the class was old as hell, and the other half were complete morons. The old people that were there told stories that made me sooooo frigging scared to be on the road with my bike, talking about switching over 3 lanes to goto Albertsons like they "always do" and somebody doesn't stop for them, yadda yadda.
So we leave the class, I follow this old ass'd woman around the parking lot to the stop sign and we're waiting for the cars to clear so we can jump on the main road. She comes INCHES, INCHES!!!!!!! of getting soooo owned by an SUV, I couldn't believe wtf I had just seen. We're out of the safety class no more than 5 minutes and this bitch is at it again. Which leads me to the conclusion; after a certain age old people need to have their vision/senses checked ATLEAST once a year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying old people are the only ones that drive bad but that would be a good place to start, no?
This Saturday I went to the class for it, I was running a lil behind so I took the bike so I could make up the time. During the beginning everybody, sigh, stands and says their name, wtf happened and how much the ticket was. I was the ONLY PERSON who #1 - had a story that didn't exceed 2 minutes and #2 admitted I was entirely at fault for the ticket. Half of the class was old as hell, and the other half were complete morons. The old people that were there told stories that made me sooooo frigging scared to be on the road with my bike, talking about switching over 3 lanes to goto Albertsons like they "always do" and somebody doesn't stop for them, yadda yadda.
So we leave the class, I follow this old ass'd woman around the parking lot to the stop sign and we're waiting for the cars to clear so we can jump on the main road. She comes INCHES, INCHES!!!!!!! of getting soooo owned by an SUV, I couldn't believe wtf I had just seen. We're out of the safety class no more than 5 minutes and this bitch is at it again. Which leads me to the conclusion; after a certain age old people need to have their vision/senses checked ATLEAST once a year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying old people are the only ones that drive bad but that would be a good place to start, no?