[Leica] Greetings

[Ted Grant]

Hi Crew,
Driving? I'll try to make this short? ;-) But then you know me?  :-) :-) It's a story! 

I learned to drive at the age of 13. Drove all over the country side without a licence until I was old enough, 16 yrs to have one. But most of that was around the farm and backcountry roads. Not much traffic.

Since:
1/ I've drove tanks, Sherman's and Churchill's. Any number of reconnaissance       
    type military scout cars. 
2/ STAGHOUND  GMC Armoured cars with 37mm main gun & twin engines.
3/In my twenties I drove "Sprint & Stock Car racing cars on dirt & Asphalt tracks.
Oh had a few crash and burns and hospital trips! OOPS! :-(
Never had any accidents of any kind driving legally on roads nor hywys.

A year ago driving in home town a guy started "honking at me!" The worst thing another driver can do to me! Urgent feelings of "kill!" Then I looked at my speedometer and I was only driving at 40 klm per hour on a 50 KLM street.
I was so surprised I hadn't been paying attention to the speed limit nor my speedometer. 
Next street to the right I turned  and parked, calmed down and thought about my actions, driving & attitude! :-( Calmed down, I drove home parked my car. My oldest grandson came over and took the car home and sold it!
AND I'VE NEVER DRIVEN SINCE! That's a year now! :-(  It's driving me crazy every time I want to go shopping or wherever & maybe being  "CARELESS!"

I was in error when the other driver honked at me because I wasn't really paying attention to my driving looking at the "speedometer" which also means??????? 

"MAYBE I WASN'T PAYING PROPER ATTENTION TO OTHER THINGS!" :-( "What if my in-attention caused a crash or accident or I killed someone or myself??????? Can I drive today in my 87th year? YES!
BUT? I believe in pure "COMMON SENSE" dictates my life whenever it's obvious. So there you go folks. "WHY I DON'T DRIVE!"
SAFE DRIVING TO EVERYONE! :-)
cheers,
Dr.ted  :-) 




-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
Sent: December-23-15 7:42 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Greetings

Herb, I'm only 85, so I shouldn't try to give advice to my elders, but I 
will offer a few comments.  I find that daytime driving is no problem, 
and a lot less stressful than driving at night, so I try to time my 
errands, and even evening meals, a little earlier.  On my way home one 
evening last week, I noticed that the car behind me was driving without 
lights.  It is easy to forget the lights when there are street lights 
every half-block.  You might want to consider investing the insurance 
money in an inexpensive car to use for daytime errands.

Your cop story is certainly different from the ones that usually make 
the news these days.  You might consider a "Letter to the Editor" of the 
local paper, to show that the police do include some fine folks.

Glad you came through it ok.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/23/2015 12:38 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> Happy holidays everyone.
>
> I’ve been pretty disorganized all week and not thinking about photography. My car was totaled last Friday evening by what must have been a drunk driving without headlights. My car was hit from the right at about a forty-five degree angle as I was making a left turn. Street showed no headlights as far as I could see in either direction and there was no flash of light at my car interior as I was hit. The car spun around, crossed the street in the process and ended up in the grass in a park, facing the street I had been on. I wasn’t even bruised. Airbags did not deploy. I never got any details about the other driver other than that he was taken to the hospital, claiming pain. Street so wide that I couldn’t even distinguish between cop cars, and the one that hit me. Cops didn’t cross the street; the cop with me knew nothing about what was known on the other side of the street. He just got my story. All I could do re reporting the incident to my insurance company was to tell them to get the police report.
>
> An amazing thing did happen. The young cop on my side was chatting me up. Possibly to see if I was campus mantis and sober. The conversation got into where I was heading, a specific restaurant that I named, and what I was planning to eat: a steak, rare.
>
> After the two truck took both cars away, the cop gave me a lift home in the back of the squad car. About fifteen minutes later, the doorbell rang. It was the cop, holding a plastic sack. He went to that restaurant and bought me dinner; refused compensation. I got to tell his sergeant about it over the phone, and was told the cop would get a commendation.
>
> Because I’m 93, I can’t tell how many driving years are left in me, and I decided not to go through the hassle of buying a car but just use Uber and Lyft services.
>
> Herb
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
>
> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>
>
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