OK I have to agree with Dad (Sourdough) to a point. But many older people need to be tagged also.
I drive around town and see people rushing the yellow light, and not making it. Actually entering then intersection as the light turns red, they just ran a red light. I see this at almost every intersection in town, all day. And it's mostly older men and women.
Traffic moving along at 55mph, suddenly everything slows down to 45. Up front is a Subaru, running beside a slow moving truck. Eventually the Subaru gets far enough past that we can start moving to the right lane and pass the slow moving vehicle on the right. It's usually a middle aged woman, talking on a cell phone.
Then there is the case of the older woman, I won't tell you who she is, but Dad sure kisses her a lot. She drives a hot high performance sports car. A vehicle that will go over 170mph easily. She has nothing to prove to anyone, they know her car is fast, and can blow their doors off. But she will let some little squirt, driving a tuner car challenge her to a race and she caves. Yes, she blows him out of the water, but why?
Over half the DWIs I see in the paper are people in their 50s and 60s, especially the repeat offenders. Yes we young people do stupid things, but we don't have a corner on that market. Older people do stupid things too.
