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Mom agrees she is never driving after dark again
Locust Fork
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I got the call a little bit ago.....Mom thought I would like to hear the silly thing she did today.
She wanted to run up the road and get something from Jacks. She doesn't like to drive at night, but hasn't had any incidents...unless you count earlier today.
She backed out of the garage....did the little turn....and started down the driveway.
She thought "its REALLY dark and the trees seem to be REALLY close to the car." Their driveway is pretty long and there are dogwood trees up each side....BUT...these were not the trees she was meandering around.
She realized that she had somehow gone between two of the dogwoods and was DRIVING AROUND THE FRONT YARD.
Yep....my mom got lost...in her car....in her own front yard.
She went back in and fixed some frozen thing using the microwave.
Too funny!
She wanted to run up the road and get something from Jacks. She doesn't like to drive at night, but hasn't had any incidents...unless you count earlier today.
She backed out of the garage....did the little turn....and started down the driveway.
She thought "its REALLY dark and the trees seem to be REALLY close to the car." Their driveway is pretty long and there are dogwood trees up each side....BUT...these were not the trees she was meandering around.
She realized that she had somehow gone between two of the dogwoods and was DRIVING AROUND THE FRONT YARD.
Yep....my mom got lost...in her car....in her own front yard.
She went back in and fixed some frozen thing using the microwave.
Too funny!
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Too funny!
Not really. Don
My dang father....he is going to be a different story. If there were a cliff nearby I think I'd start calling him Thelma just to see if he "got it."
I asked GrandDad what happened, and he didn't know he had driven too close to a light pole base in a grocery store parking lot.
I was trying to figure out how I was going to get the keys from him, and why did it have to be me, and all of the other things that run through your head.
Then I heard the keys jingle behind me, and GrandDad said: 'I guess you all will have to drive me around. That could have been a kid I hit, and I wouldn't have known it'.
We ended up having fights to decide who would take GrandDad to his Knights of Columbus meetings. He had been the state Grand PooBah, and if you were with him, drinks were free! Woo Hoo! We had a bunch of fun hearing about GrandDad when he was young.
Larry can help you with this. There is one part in the car usually easy to get to that will always keep it from running. My Nana's car it was the rotator arm on the distributor. I pulled that puppy and put a note in there that said. Do not fix this, Nana is not competent to drive and do not tell her this.... and then left my number for them to call for payment for coming out there. Old lady still had her car and her keys, it just did not move.... Most of the folks she called to fix it were very understanding, one or two even refused payment.
Very GOOD idea... I may have to 'unplug' my 80 y.o. Mom's car... too.
My sister messed my mother's car up down one side. Its a 2012 Civic that looks perfect on one side and looks like it has been drug down a logging road on the other. I was so mad at my sister for trashing their car....but almost JUST as mad at my parents for letting her drive the car.
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
Larry can help you with this. There is one part in the car usually easy to get to that will always keep it from running. My Nana's car it was the rotator arm on the distributor. I pulled that puppy and put a note in there that said. Do not fix this, Nana is not competent to drive and do not tell her this.... and then left my number for them to call for payment for coming out there. Old lady still had her car and her keys, it just did not move.... Most of the folks she called to fix it were very understanding, one or two even refused payment.
Very GOOD idea... I may have to 'unplug' my 80 y.o. Mom's car... too.
Yep....I'm going to talk to my brother about doing this to a couple cars! (Everyone needs to be on the same page on this one.)
Larry can help you with this. There is one part in the car usually easy to get to that will always keep it from running. My Nana's car it was the rotator arm on the distributor. I pulled that puppy and put a note in there that said. Do not fix this, Nana is not competent to drive and do not tell her this.... and then left my number for them to call for payment for coming out there. Old lady still had her car and her keys, it just did not move.... Most of the folks she called to fix it were very understanding, one or two even refused payment.
It's a shame that many, if not most, cars these days no longer have distributors.
My wife's car, for instance, has electronically controlled coils, one for every 2 cylinders (V6), and my car has a coil-on-plug ignition system, so it has 8 cylinders and 8 coils.
I'm trying to think of another way that you could disable a modern car... With our cars, it'd be pretty easy to just swap the keys for another key with the right teeth, but without having the chip inside it programmed. The car will roll over all day long (until the battery dies, anyway), but it'll never start.
He can still drive himself to the bank, grocery store, the gym, and his doctor's appointments in town, but we wonder how long this will be advisable.
Sucks watching our parents get old.
After that I was the son who took my mothers keys. If you think there is a problem then it is already more than likely past the time to act on it.