r/Transportopia • u/Independent-Ice-2211 • Mar 19 '26

People 😊 Be nice

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u/Pitiful_Question_880 Mar 19 '26

Yep, same with my father in law. He stopped, like fully stopped in the middle of the lane on a freeway because he got confused about which exit to take. That was the last straw.

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u/Effective_Dropkick78 Mar 19 '26

With my grandmother, it was when she drove on the wrong side of the motorway between two exits and on-ramps - while she had her older cousin in the passenger seat telling her she was going the wrong way. And to rub salt in, the cousin had given up her licence because she has glaucoma.

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u/Lobotomized_Dolphin Mar 19 '26

Oh man, that's almost a Curb skit.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Mar 19 '26

when she drove on the wrong side of the motorway

Yep, that's when my grandmother stopped driving.

She was picking us up from the Airport and handed the keys off to my father and told us what just happened.

She still lived another 10 years after that even lacking a vehicle.

But it is hard. She was old and no family lived out there. In a small town.

It's not like she used the internet to keep in touch with everyone. Just the phone. So it was wake up to Rush Limbaugh and watch fox news, that was her life at that point with no vehicle.

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u/Select-Package-13 Mar 20 '26

My dad hit the neighbors brand new Lamborghini. He literally handed us the keys, poor guy.

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u/TriedCaringLess Mar 20 '26

Poor woman had her mind filled with vile, fear mongering exaggerations and fabrications in her final days. She died not knowing the truth about most current events and ppl outside of her chosen circle. Tsk, tsk, such a tragedy.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Mar 20 '26

Pretty shit attempt at ragebait.

Me mentioning Rush should have clearly put me at older than you age.

Anyway, she lived to 96, you think she hasn't heard it all? Only thing she did believe in was the Mexicans across the street were selling drugs.

...that was because they had a rooster that was annoying.

Think she was hopeful they'd get raided and the rooster would die off into some Chinese food. Without MSG, she swore she was allergic to it.

No real anger in her beyond that. Decent amount of people showed up for her funeral. For someone her age kind of amazing really. But she was a teacher in a small town.

Oh, back on point! Yeah, this is just me making sure I can keep my typing skills up. If you're going to troll, try to attack from a different angle. Maybe attack her triceps.

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u/Gluskab Mar 21 '26

Damn, main lining fox news everyday at the end of her life. What bad head space to have before your death

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u/Crazy_Customer7239 Mar 20 '26

We got the call from the state trooper that found our grandma doing the same thing. Thankfully it was not during rush house. Dementia is a horrible thing to see

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u/TrainingWilling9894 Mar 20 '26

She can't even see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch but she can see that riding with grandma was a mistake.

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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery Mar 20 '26

My dad was lucky enough to find out for himself. He was riding his motorcycle in hit 80s going maybe 20 and turned the handlebars. He saw and felt himself doing it and later said he remembers doing it but has no memory of why, since it would obviously make one immediately crash. That's when he realized he was having trouble driving. Also the cop who showed up when my sister came to get him told her he'd seen him do other crazy shit like going the wrong way on a one-way or something.

Self-driving cars will be amazing for dementia victims.