Twilight health in a very unhealthy society.

[Raynine]

I got cataract surgery and that went well so there is some comfort there. As I get closer to 80, society is looking to take me out of circulation so I can look forward to special testing as I continue to operate an automobile. I live in a city that just installed a huge new state liquor store on the town border. This will assist local drivers as the alcohol content of the booze in their vein's mixes with all the prescribed medications they are on already from the medical center. These citizens like to drive fast, and they do not appreciate those who follow rules and honor speed limits.

The community does not want elderly like us slowing down alcohol-marijuana-opioid saturated denizens that have places to go and things to do. There is nothing more dangerous than older drivers as obstacles to treated civilians with ADHD, PTSD, Social Anxiety and a myriad of other effects of the Great Society. Drug/alcohol road rage is ubiquitous on the city’s Thoroughfare's, and the fear of more expensive hooch is always a lingering concern of city leaders.

If you have stayed healthy in a city where livers, hearts, lungs and brains to die, you need to be on your guard against a liberal, woke, community leadership that uses chemicals to keep the local economy on a path that feeds their wallets. If they can make you prove you can safely drive, they can appear to be useful. “Hey look, we are testing old people to make the roads safer!”
This is just a word to the wise.

You could end up walking for your health whether you want to or not.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2023/06/22/cheshire-medical-center-pay-2-million-settle-allegations-controlled

 

[Woodznutz]

I got cataract surgery and that went well so there is some comfort there. As I get closer to 80, society is looking to take me out of circulation so I can look forward to special testing as I continue to operate an automobile. I live in a city that just installed a huge new state liquor store on the town border. This will assist local drivers as the alcohol content of the booze in their vein's mixes with all the prescribed medications they are on already from the medical center. These citizens like to drive fast, and they do not appreciate those who follow rules and honor speed limits.

The community does not want elderly like us slowing down alcohol-marijuana-opioid saturated denizens that have places to go and things to do. There is nothing more dangerous than older drivers as obstacles to treated civilians with ADHD, PTSD, Social Anxiety and a myriad of other effects of the Great Society. Drug/alcohol road rage is ubiquitous on the city’s Thoroughfare's, and the fear of more expensive hooch is always a lingering concern of city leaders.

If you have stayed healthy in a city where livers, hearts, lungs and brains to die, you need to be on your guard against a liberal, woke, community leadership that uses chemicals to keep the local economy on a path that feeds their wallets. If they can make you prove you can safely drive, they can appear to be useful. “Hey look, we are testing old people to make the roads safer!”
This is just a word to the wise.

You could end up walking for your health whether you want to or not.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2023/06/22/cheshire-medical-center-pay-2-million-settle-allegations-controlled

I dunno. I'm 85 and still pushing the speed limit a bit.

 

[Raynine]

I dunno. I'm 85 and still pushing the speed limit a bit.

Be respectful to the police. They will let you off with a warning-personal experience.

 

[Woodznutz]

Be respectful to the police. They will let you off with a warning-personal experience.

I do that. I get a scolding but no ticket.

 

[odanny]

You are triggered by liquor stores. Were you a drunk once in your life? The reason I ask is you sound like someone who smoked for 40 years, quit, and now lectures smokers on the dangers of smoking.

 

[Woodznutz]

You are triggered by liquor stores. Were you a drunk once in your life? The reason I ask is you sound like someone who smoked for 40 years, quit, and now lectures smokers on the dangers of smoking.

Who better to lecture? I fasted to clear the crap from my system, and I encourage everyone to do it. You don't have to be a pain in the ass to pass on your experience.

 

[Raynine]

You are triggered by liquor stores. Were you a drunk once in your life? The reason I ask is you sound like someone who smoked for 40 years, quit, and now lectures smokers on the dangers of smoking.

Quit weed in 1974, tobacco in 1976. Never drank much but gave it up thirty years ago.

 

[odanny]

You don't have to be a pain in the ass to pass on your experience.

Don't have to, and you are not lecturing addicts after you beat your addiction.

Like you, I encourage others to try fasting, but only if the topic comes up, or they ask for advice.

 

[Woodznutz]

Don't have to, and you are not lecturing addicts after you beat your addiction.

I tried to get my brother and sister to cut down on their drinking, even while having a drink myself with them. Both are gone now, and their drinking was a large contributing cause of their deaths.

 

[odanny]

I tried to get my brother and sister to cut down on their drinking, even while having a drink myself with them. Both are gone now, and their drinking was a large contributing cause of their deaths.

I got a good friend who is an alcoholic, not a day goes by he does not get smashed after work, and all weekend. He lives out of state, and I decided I'm not going to take any more calls from him. I'm sick of listening to a drunk ramble, even though I like speaking with him.

Texts are enough, for now.

 

[Woodznutz]

I got a good friend who is an alcoholic, not a day goes by he does not get smashed after work, and all weekend. He lives out of state, and I decided I'm not going to take any more calls from him. I'm sick of listening to a drunk ramble, even though I like speaking with him.

Texts are enough, for now.

My sister would call me every evening and ramble on for hours. I listened because it was therapy for her. She was a mess.

 

[braalian]

so I can look forward to special testing as I continue to operate an automobile.

if you're still a safe driver, you've got nothing to worry about.

we all know that it's perfectly reasonable- and logical- to test people for their driver's license more frequently as they approach 80 and beyond.

the unfortunate existence of drunk drivers has nothing to do with that one way or the other

 

[Concerned American]

Quit weed in 1974, tobacco in 1976. Never drank much but gave it up thirty years ago.

LOL, no weed, no alcohol, no tobacco! Fatty foods? Sex? If not, why would you want to live?

 

[Woodznutz]

if you're still a safe driver, you've got nothing to worry about.

we all know that it's perfectly reasonable- and logical- to test people for their driver's license more frequently as they approach 80 and beyond.

the unfortunate existence of drunk drivers has nothing to do with that one way or the other

I get the vision test. The irony is that I need reading glasses to read the road signs in the test clearly. Then I get "glasses required to drive" on my license. Problem is I can't see anything clearly with reading glasses beyond three feet.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I get the vision test. The irony is that I need reading glasses to read the road signs in the test clearly. Then I get "glasses required to drive" on my license. Problem is I can't see anything clearly with reading glasses beyond three feet.

My wife had the same problem with cataracts. She failed the vision test when she went to her new license in TN. She got a statement from her eye doctor that her vision was acceptable, and they waived the test requirement from her.

 

[MarathonMike]

Drunk/impaired drivers are only part of the problem. Lots of angry drivers out there. I drive fast but I'm always courteous, letting people merge or stopping to let someone make a left turn across traffic. I haven't been stopped in over 30 years.

 

[braalian]

People are definitely getting worse at driving. I don’t know if it’s all the texting or if they’re just actually getting worse at the fundamentals of driving….

 

[x chicago]

if you're still a safe driver, you've got nothing to worry about.

lol There are tailgaters and speeders and a whole bunch of other stuff. Safe can minimize the hazards, but not eliminate them.

 

[Concerned American]

lol There are tailgaters and speeders and a whole bunch of other stuff. Safe can minimize the hazards, but not eliminate them.

Been riding motorcycles for over 60 years and those ^^ are words to live by. Mitigate your risk because there are crazy drivers out there.

 

[MarathonMike]

People are definitely getting worse at driving. I don’t know if it’s all the texting or if they’re just actually getting worse at the fundamentals of driving….

I suspect that many of the bad drivers on the road are under 30. The internet generation has short attention spans and many of them drive like they are the only ones that matter. But certainly elderly drivers can create traffic hazards by being far too slow.