And if your medical issues are so severe that the state requires you to be re-evaluated, then your condition is serious enough to not put your church’s members in danger in the event your condition worsens…
But don’t listen to me, except for this one small point, I do not despise you, it’s your condescending attitude towards the lives of others who must share the road with you and those who put their lives in your hands.
But he doesn’t recognize these as shortcoming, more likely he sees them as Badges of Honor. Otherwise he would not be putting the lives of his fellow church members at risk when he recognizes he needs additional help regarding his driving (specifically he’s enrollment in the online driving courses).
I am guessing that the second half of your remark is intended for me… I do know somewhat of what I write. I am a volunteer at my local senior center and I’ve seen some of our members who have diminished physical and mental capacities, who not only have lost their driver’s licenses, but cannot even be trusted not to wander off before a family member or care taker returns to pick them up…
People like you are why people like me are given a chance to live in such a cold world. There has never been a time you have put me down and made me feel like trash for seeking help or for sharing stories.
This is why I have utmost respect for you, Dave, George, Bing, Chris, etc, and is also why I have utmost respect for those I associate myself with in my every day life. You guys always uplift rather than to put down a fellow human.
I remember as a kid growing up, a family member would say the most negative things about me getting licensed to drive, said such would be too dangerous. I’m still driving today after more than 2 decades with zero at fault accident, unlike that particular family member.
Just got to be grateful these folks aren’t in power at the DMV office.
But you’re NOT seeking help. You were given good advice many times and you attacked the person giving advice. As a senior citizen I know a good number of people who are hearing impaired (some severely). They don’t complain. They know and recognize their limitations and how it could impact their driving and drive accordingly. But your school mishaps have NOTHING to do with being able to hear or not. You’re not an attentive driver - which is the opposite of the hearing-impaired people I know. They are usually MORE attentive because they lack an ability most people have.
Lack of at-fault accidents on your record is great
But it doesn’t actually mean you’re a good driver
Hello It_s-Me.
Your response prompted me to return to the site to investigate a little more. I’m the kind of person who ensures that a mistake doesn’t happen again.
So I went back to check the signs on that particular hilly road where I suddenly came across a stopped school bus as I went up a hill and just began going back down.
When I first entered the road, the first sign posted was the speed limit ( 40mph). I initially thought it might have been 30mph due to the condition of the road. Then the next sign after the posted speed limit was limited sight distance. After that, another sign says hidden drive. There was absolutely no school bus sign on that road.
This convinces me even more that the school bus did not make a legal stop, especially on a hill with limited sight.
I’ve never seen a sign for a school bus stop. I’ve stopped for buses on the main state road nearest my house. There are several stops along that road.
Was the hidden drive where the bus stopped? That seems logical.
Where the hidden drive sign posted, there was a driveway there, which is difficult to see. Then I pass that drive way going up a hill shortly after ( probably 200ft or less ) then meet the bus around a blinded corner. Up there has a drive way to the kid’s house.
I wonder if that could mean,
There may be an object laying in the road and I should be prepared to make an emergency stop.
I wonder if that could mean,
I should be prepared for a slow vehicle pulling into or out of a hidden driveway.
Just because the posted speed limit in a dangerous area is 40, doesn’t mean you should be doing 40, You had 2 signs telling you of possible dangers ahead and you didn’t prepare yourself for them by slowing down.
For the safety of children, I believe such a stop is risky. It is risky because it assumes all drivers will obey the signs on such a dangerous road.
A lot of drivers don’t pay attention to road signs like that. They are more focused on moving objects.
So while technically drivers are to obey road signs
, reality is that a lot of drivers don’t. So we have to unload our children in safer situation to combat these issues.
I didn’t even know there was a driveway up on the hill until I stopped for the school bus and observed.
And where would that be so the children are not walking along a dangerous road?
Right. I don’t have a good response to your question other than that whenever I see these signs again, I’ll just approach every corner with extra caution, and hope the public does the same.
I’m glad you learned something.