Everyone should be allowed to whine from time to time (I think I take extra liberties on my time to time but maybe that’s another discussion for someone else’s blog). Today, I want to express my views on a guy who hit my car today. Yes, hit my car. Now I wasn’t driving, Ryan was. Driving through a Home Depot parking lot when an elderly man backed out of his space without looking, backed into my car, and didn’t realize what was stopping him so he kept going backward while Ryan honked the horn to get the guy to stop backing up.
Not to sound ageist, racist, or generally mean to other people, but the man was elderly and didn’t speak very good English. He did not want to deal with insurance, but he did say he would pay for the damages. So he was nice, but not very good at driving. I believe that we should all be retested for our licenses every few years rather than pass once and just keep on renewing. I propose that every 4, 8, 10 years (just a reasonable amount of time), mandatory retaking of the test. I know this is an added cost. We should pay for it too. It is a privilege, not a right, to drive a car, and I think we all need to be more respectful of that as well as be more respectful of those around us.
Finally, if you back up in a parking lot and something stops you... just stop your car and find out what. Maybe next time it’ll be a person instead of my car.
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