Good morning Snails!
See if you can convince him to sell it to the used-car dealer. Try hard "It only depreciates from here, Dad." "I'll drive you, free taxi service now that I'm retired." Etc.
CES: Good luck. Hope you only have to move each piece once.
See if you can convince him to sell it to the used-car dealer. Try hard "It only depreciates from here, Dad." "I'll drive you, free taxi service now that I'm retired." Etc.
CES: Good luck. Hope you only have to move each piece once.
and i'm off to rehab!
atty, i believe that car was bought not all that long ago. unlikely bear's dad has had a change of heart
He'll get
for the car... but that cannot be helped. It's a 2005 Elantra. If he gets $2000 for it, it would be astounding. And it makes no
difference that there is new: exhaust system, AC system, alternator
and other stuff.
I've told him I would take him wherever he needs to go... and I've been
doing that - almost exclusively - since January. :: sigh ::
Speaking of which... time to head out. Later!
I was late so I brought more breakfast...
Good Morning !
I was late so I brought more breakfast...
Good Morning !
Good morning, Classy
....I'll remove the avocado 
This is why I'm all for active-collision-avoidance stuff in cars.
Who knows though, it's a tough thing to deal with. Frankly, it's easier with most elderly ladies. It was easier for me with my Mom. I just drive her everywhere. Didn't take much convincing as she was getting timid about it (but still misses drive to the local gas station and stuff nearby). With us guys, you get the "they can pry the steering-wheel from my cold dead hands" attitude.
And even tech solutions are not the entire solution (at least right now). I mean...take the other day.
I'm driving back home from GF's and there's this car STOPPED on at the near-bottom of an up-side of a hill around a curve. Little "old" lady sitting in the car. I almost stopped and asked if she needed help, but it didn't look like it. I went slowly around her ON A BLIND HILL while praying to God I wouldn't die in a head-on collision (kinda had a recent glimpse as there is another hill just before that one that I came over first). Anyway, so I go slow, and I see in my rear-view mirror that she's progressing slowly too.
WTH? So she just STOPPED in the worst possible place on Earth? I thought for a bit that she might be stuffing mailboxes but the next mailbox was at the TOP of the hill and she was stopped much earlier than that. Maybe a deer or something made her stop. Who knows, right?
Anyway, point is that you can't fix all issues with other drivers. And some will never have any common sense anyway, no matter what age. And some older drivers are better than the younger ones. So you just do the best you can on a case-by-case basis. It's a crap-shoot. And the more cars we have on the roads the scarier it gets. Probabilities of accidents increase. So I LIKE the radar idea, and auto-breaking and stuff that avoids collisions and signals presence and stuff. I couldn't care less if the car actually drives itself, but more about avoidance and signaling and collision-course detection.
Who knows though, it's a tough thing to deal with. Frankly, it's easier with most elderly ladies. It was easier for me with my Mom. I just drive her everywhere. Didn't take much convincing as she was getting timid about it (but still misses drive to the local gas station and stuff nearby). With us guys, you get the "they can pry the steering-wheel from my cold dead hands" attitude.
And even tech solutions are not the entire solution (at least right now). I mean...take the other day.
I'm driving back home from GF's and there's this car STOPPED on at the near-bottom of an up-side of a hill around a curve. Little "old" lady sitting in the car. I almost stopped and asked if she needed help, but it didn't look like it. I went slowly around her ON A BLIND HILL while praying to God I wouldn't die in a head-on collision (kinda had a recent glimpse as there is another hill just before that one that I came over first). Anyway, so I go slow, and I see in my rear-view mirror that she's progressing slowly too.
WTH? So she just STOPPED in the worst possible place on Earth? I thought for a bit that she might be stuffing mailboxes but the next mailbox was at the TOP of the hill and she was stopped much earlier than that. Maybe a deer or something made her stop. Who knows, right?
Anyway, point is that you can't fix all issues with other drivers. And some will never have any common sense anyway, no matter what age. And some older drivers are better than the younger ones. So you just do the best you can on a case-by-case basis. It's a crap-shoot. And the more cars we have on the roads the scarier it gets. Probabilities of accidents increase. So I LIKE the radar idea, and auto-breaking and stuff that avoids collisions and signals presence and stuff. I couldn't care less if the car actually drives itself, but more about avoidance and signaling and collision-course detection.
