100 year old drivers

[broonie]

Yep, I got to admit 100 years safer than 100miles(ph).

And quite a few 40/50/60 years olds drive like they are already 100.

With equally poor judgement or sense or spatial preception.

 

my wife!

[Peasgood]

A couple of years ago I called in at a fuel station in Oz. This station was just a shed in the middle of nowhere with a couple of fuel pumps out in the yard.

These fuel stations are about a couple of hours apart with nothing in between. You fill up at every one because you don't know how far the next one will be.

 

As I was filling up there was an old boy on a motorbike filling at the other pump. I said hello and asked where he was off to. Not many bikes around in those parts, too remote and too many kangaroos to jump on you.

He said he was going home. He was on his way back to Brisbane after visiting Ayers Rock for his 75th birthday!

That is a 6000km round trip and although I would like to go myself the 6 day drive through some pretty bleak country puts me off, and that would be in a 4 wheeled vehicle.

I wished him a safe trip and said "Go carefully". He said he would definitely be going carefully as otherwise he might not be able to do it again next year. Pretty cool dude I thought.

[Billhook]

 

It is not always the old folk who frighten me!