We live in Geezerville and to be honest some of the geezers drive like well...geezers. I've talked about how some geezers use (or don't use) their turn signals. But gees...geezers...listen up...stay in your lane when you drive.
We were going to breakfast on Sunday--a time honored tradition--when I made a right turn using my turn signal (no less)--but the red truck next to me on the left, decided he was going to make a right turn too. It's not possible for two vehicles to be in the same space without having a collision. I saw him coming and moved farther to the right and the red truck driver finally saw me and moved to the left and then after I made my right turn, he made his right turn from the left lane. It's good we live in Geezerville because there's not much traffic and the speed limit is only 35.
As for staying in lanes...geezers the lines on the road are not suggestions, they are real, and you and all the other geezers are supposed to drive between the lines. I was following a geezer, and he was wandering around between 3 lanes of traffic. He was not speeding...just wandering and not paying attention. All the cars behind him were on alert thinking "what is this guy gonna do next?" You can't take your lane between the lines. You can't take your lane by wandering among two or three lanes of traffic. You have to take your lane between the lines. It's not that hard to steer a car, even if your pup is beside you and wants attention.
Geezers tend to think that dialing a cellphone while driving is OK for them because they are old and have lots of experience. Yes, we are old and YES we do have experience...but NO we don't have lots of experience driving and dialing. IF you have a newer car, all you have to do is ask your car to make a call. Please don't make the call using your geezer fingers. They are not as nimble as they were and they are too big for the screen. The same goes for texting...no texting while driving--see above.
When I first moved here I could not understand why the speed limit was so slow...but after a couple of years, I know why. For some of the "old" geezers, 35 is tantamount to going 90 on the Interstate. The old geezers think 35 is speeding so they go slower. The speed limit is to remind geezers to GO the speed and keep the traffic moving.
However, in our village, the speed limit is 25. It's a residential area with people walking on the sidewalks or on the street. The developers put sidewalks on only one side of the street (I have no idea why) and the sidewalks are just a wee bit too narrow for 2 people to walk side by side or for one person walking a dog...so folks walk in the streets or straddle the street and the sidewalk. Speed limits need to be slow so people and vehicles don't run into each other. But do geezers keep the speed limit? Of course not. While I've not seen anyone careening around corners on 2 wheels, I've seen a lot of folks going 50 in the 25 mph zone.
Seems strange...they go fast in the 25 mph zone but slow in the 35 mph zone in town. What's going on here? I have no idea!
There are speed limit monitors through out the town. So far they just tell you how fast you are going. I wonder when the radar monitors will get a camera and send a ticket to the speeders. If that happened folks might follow the speed limit.
(Which reminds me that one time I had a ticket sent to me by one of those "smart radar monitors." Trouble is the monitor was in Texas and I was not. I called the powers that be and told them I had not been in Texas for several years and would they please check their camera footage. Two days later, the nice folks in TX said they had made a mistake and I could tear up the ticket.)
So geezers...a few more words to say. Stay in your lane, follow the speed limits, don't dial and drive, and pay attention to the surrounding traffic. As I write this, I remember saying the same thing to a certain teenager who was learning how to drive. OMG. Remember, we're all in this together.
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