posted by [identity profile] dcs745.livejournal.com at 09:46pm on 12/02/2006
*hugs* *makes hot honey and lemon drinks* Sorry to hear you are cold-y! :( Get well soon *healing vibes*

Does America not have old-age driving licences? My Dad is 70 in May and apart from a dodgy knee is in perfect health, mentally and physically. However to drive after his 70th birthday he has to re-take his driving test every 3 years. OUR general licences only last from 17-70.

On another note - a person can be shaky at walking and still be perfectly okay to drive. I find your comments rather... amiss, both from an age-ist and a disability discrimination viewpoint. I can't walk well. Some days I walk like I have rubber legs. I walk with a walking stick. My hands are shaky with tendonitus. Do you want to keep me off the road? I could still handle a car. (The fact that I choose not to, is neither here nor there.) In spite of his incapacities he is still COPING and INDEPENDENT (to some extent at least). I say GOOD ON HIM!!!!

If you saw him driving and he was all over the place and clearly not in control of the car, I could understand your concern, but to raise that view based on how he WALKS? That's unfair. :/

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