Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Nov 29
I love the elderly, really I do, but can Paw Paw and Big Momma please stop driving these big bodied vehicles? They’re always rollin’ in some Lincoln Continental, Cadillac El Dorado or a Buick Roadmaster. Most are driving 20 mph in a 45 mph speed zone and some of them can barely see over the steering wheel.
How about suggesting to your grandparents the great handling of a Toyota Yaris, a Honda Civic Hybrid or a Nissan Sentra? It will save them on gas and will save us from having scraped up cars because Madea can’t pull into a parking space properly at the local Piggly Wiggly.
While I was out west recently, I saw a senior citizen who had to be somewhere around his 70′s in a big ol’ Ford 350 with some fancy azz chrome rims! Grandpa was wheelin’ that bad boy and to boot, he had tints on his window. I wouldn’t have ever spotted him if I hadn’t seen him get in the car from one of those car wash places that are popping up all over. Plus he knew how to handle his. Go Gran’Paw!!!
Luke, a couple of years ago, there was this lady, who was probably around 80, wheelin’ this red Mercedes Roadster and trying to park at the bank I was going into. I gave her props for driving that car because that was a fine vehicle, but she had to ask me to park it for her. Now when you have to ask a stranger to park your car for you, maybe you shouldn’t be driving.
Nikki, you aint never lied. I love to shop at the Giant grocery store in Baltimore near my job, but the older shoppers are a trip. I know that they want to stay independent and all, but it seems like its hard for them to manuever those battlestar galactica cars. Besides them putting scratches on our cars, why does it take them 15 minutes to get out of the parking lot? Folks like me got to get back to work. I hope the good Lawd blesses me with a kid, so that he or she can drive me around in my old age.
Girl I still remember the silver-haired Granny who mean mugged me for going too slow in the left lane. Sister Girl was pushing a Vette. Why did my behind try catching up to her? She made me eat dust girl. I haven’t lived it down yet.
Everytime I get behind someone who’s driving a car longer than my truck, I think of her. She could’ve taught these folks a thing or 2.
My grandma drives a lincoln as we speak, but I’m not gonna risk bodily harm asking her to downsize. She LOVES her car. shoot.
They’re used to the way cars were built in their day, that’s why they like to roll in big ass boats.
you know ain’t nobody’s granny rockin no hybrid. They gotta have Big Bodies so they can protect themselves from injury/death, and harm the person who hits their car.
Shit Vick, what about the injuries they are giving us with those tanks they drive?
I feel you on this. This man pushing a Cutlass Ciera pulled out in front of me today. He didn’t even look my way. I was like, “Dang, are you trying to hit me, Grandpa.”
if i am graced to live that long, i am gonna hire a driver!
Elderly people need to transport by compact cars only. Recently, I had to help an elderly woman back out of her parking space at a mall. She was in a brand new Cadillac with drive out tags. She rolled down her window and said ” Baby, can you help me out Sugar?”
I actually don’t have a rant about older people…just wanted to stop by and say HEY!!! (Waving)
Older folks should NOT drive and driving a boat doesn’t make the other’s around you safer and doesn’t guarantee that they or others won’t be hurt.
Good lordie. My grandmother is pushing a Cadillac and instead of going nice and slow, she likes to go super fast. She’s 80 and we are working on a driving intervention. *lol*
AAAAHHHH!!!! You’re giving me nightmares from when I lived in Tampa Bay. Land of the newlywed and damn near dead. All of the retirees usually left their house around 9 AM, driving like there is all the time in the world! November through April is the worst, because that was when the snowbirds would come down and slow traffic for everybody. My vision of hell is driving behind someone in their land yacht with Quebec/Ohio/Michigan plates driving 20 MPH in the left lane.
Thanks Nikki for unearthing those horrid memories I tried so hard to repress.
And don’t get in an accident with them! Florida is the land of No-fault insurance. Someone told me about how their kid got hit by an 85 year old man who had just left the eye doctor to get his pupils dilated. Guess who had to pay for the car accident? You guessed it, the family of the kid.
really? where am I living? Not about old people driving big ass cars but about grannies asking you to park their car!!!
I hope nobody drives off with a car one day.
My nana said small cars are not safe.
The comments are hilarious. But I have seen super citizens driving some serious rides in this part of Dixie.
The ladies who lunch still push Cadillacs with stellar rims.
Luke is not kidding about the trucks…with Flowmasters.