In the UK you cannot drive a car until you are 17. From then on, you can drive a car, indefinitely, until you are dead. This is very wrong on a number of levels. Old people cannot drive. This is a fact. Just pay attention to anyone with grey permed hair on your drive home for proof. It’s everywhere you look. The biggest danger on our roads are not the young boy racers, but the elderly geriatric dawdlers. The Old Person Driver, or OPD.

As Greavsie has also recently experienced, OPDs can be extremely frustrating (though quite how slow he must have been going to be flashed by an old-person I can only wonder). As I mentioned over at his place, I do wonder why we expect more from people who in all likelihood took their driving test in a vehicle pulled by a horse?

I applaud safe driving, not literally of course, that would be ridiculous. Though you see so little evidence of it nowadays perhaps I should start?

“Why did you crash into the central reservation Sir?”, asks polite traffic policeman.

“I lost control as I was busy clapping the OPD in front who gave a clear and timely indication before completing her overtaking manoeuvre from the middle lane. A manoeuvre which, by the way, was entirely faultless.”

OK. Maybe I won’t. (more…)

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