[Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

Sun Nov 23 17:17:38 PST 2014

Christmas is coming.  That's when your extended brood gets pop/grandpop an
account at Uber, Lyft or a cab  service of choice, and tells the venerable
one to carry on as before.  A good friend of mine did that with his
dad--gave him an envelope full of cash, and told him to spend it on cabs.
When the envelope got thin, he replenished it.  My friend realized that
the taxi bucks were far less than a wrongful death lawsuit payment.

Best,
Jim (who's off running parent errands about two or three times a week,
gladly.)

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On
Behalf Of Ted Grant
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 7:52 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

Hello Douglas,
Thank you Good Sir!

Trust me, it isn't an easy task to say the least! Certainly when one has
been accustomed to hopping in a vehicle of many variations and away you go
for about 70 years or so. Without any thought that someday you will have
to end it! Damn it's a very miserable feeling! :-(

Then you turn the key off and throw the keys away knowing you'll never
drive again in the everyday fashions of those many past years?

Yep it's an extremely tough call to make on oneself! Better that way than
killing yourself or another. But what you don't lose immediately is? The
underlying feeling to hop in the car and away you go! I'll sure be glad
when it's gone! :-)

cheers,
ted

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Douglas Barry
Sent: November-23-14 3:16 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

Ted,

You made a difficult choice - both bravely and pragmatically taken.
You've set a great example that many of us as we age can learn from, and
will remember.

Douglas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:57 AM
Subject: [Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

> Given I have just returned home from a Day in Vancouver where my
Grandson
> Kyle and I sold my Mercedes in a step down in life where I no longer
> drive.
> Unless of course it were a situation as it was when at the age of 13 I
> began
> my driving lessons on the 100 acre fields of the farm acreage? :-) Quite
> easy really as you could go miles and never crash into anything. Good
> fortune I never have on the streets I've driven about the world either.
> Scared the hell out of myself on occasion!!!! :-)
> I suppose more to do with "The Great Spirit" looking after me! :-)
Rather
> than my ability? :-)
>
> Throughout my life of driving stock cars and sprint cars during car
racing
> for quite a number of years between assignments. Then during my military
> training in the Canadian Armoured Corp as an NCO, eventually Officer
> training driving tanks, several types of Armoured cars. The GMC 15 ton
> STAGHOUND armoured car WITH TWIN ENGINES THAT COULD ROLL ALONG THE
HIGHWAY
> AT 80mph's or quietly creep along tracks through the country side
looking
> for the enemy!
>
> And scout cars in a RECCE Regiment. You name it, the vehicles of many
> sizes!
>
> Anyway with what I considered a great amount of Common Sense due to a
> number
> of reasons? I took my self off the road as a driver! I need not have an
> accident nor kill someone, possibly self? So I hung-up my driving keys!
> :-(
>
> Any way one more common sense movement by my own doing rather than
having
> to
> engage in a Government Department of Transport driving examination and
> having some whipper Snapper of a boy telling me.... "YOU CAN'T DRIVE
> ANYMORE!! GIVE ME YOUR DRIVERS LICENCE AND KEYS! :-( :-( In the usual
dumb
> ass manners of some government employees.
>
> There are some things sacred in one's life and that's driving a vehicle
> for
> one of many! And when you deem you can't or don't do it as safely as you
> once did????? TAKE YOURSELF OFF THE ROAD!" YEP A SAD DAY INDEED! BUT
> COMMON
> SENSE PREVAILS. :-(
>
> In any event a wonderful day also visiting and enjoying the company of
> Tuulikki and Tom Abrahamsson who assisted in this days adventures! :-)
> Thanks folks very much.
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
>
>
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