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I was getting my driver's license renewed and had gone through the whole process and was waiting for the printer to spit it out. While I stood there the guy in line behind me asked the lady behind the counter if he could register his motor home without a driver's license. She said yes, but a license is only $25 and it's really useful for ID etc etc. He said he couldn't get a license because he had vision problems and he turned to leave. About that time my license was ready and I walked out the door right behind him.
I watched him get in a fairly new pickup truck and drive away. I'll bet there is more to that guy's story...
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In before mindless CA "I hate Mexicans" rant.
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The guy wasn't Messican. Sounded like a Kentucky accent. He was American as me and you ... or, well, me.
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Sooner or later it will go that route with the guys on here..
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BTW, Oregon DMV is a breeze. Free coffee, pleasant workers and realistic emissions testing.
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There aren't any police of any kind at the registration office. It's a storefront in a strip mall.
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Around here its old people that can make driving scary. There's an old man at our church that has a massive '70s Plymouth boat and can barely see over the steering wheel. When he starts moving you better get out of the way, because he's not stopping. When I lived in central KS the town had one well known old lady that could barely see, so she honked as she backed up. My wife's grandmother is in her 80s and never goes over 50 MPH, even on a 70 MPH highway. Several times per year there will be a news story about an old person that got confused and drove up an exit ramp into oncoming traffic on a divided highway.
The scary thing is, the testing is so undemanding that some of them probably still have licenses.
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My father refuses to show his license at the DMV.
He either says he doesn't have one, or he says 'why do you need it?'. But he does have a valid license. Your license might make their life easier, but if you are not obligated to show it, then it's simply a personal choice. So had I been in line behind that person I certainly wouldn't call the police.
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I see somebody that looks sketchy, or even a bit out of place, I will at the least make note of the tag # confronted a few guys taking pictures in my office parking lot once. They turned out to be there because it is a medical facility, some patriot act, or defense of freedom act, some such nonsense. It was like 10 years ago, before that car wreck. They were a little surprised I approached them, warned me to be careful talking to people like that. This was a couple of doughy white guys, and I could really run. I told him I did not really walk up that close to them, and if either one of them could catch me, I would have been shocked. Can't run worth a damn now. I don't want to have anything to do with the cops, but I am calling them if I see someone who is too vision impaired or drunk to drive go get in a vehicle. I am of the opinion that if you see someone likely to hurt themselves or others, if you are able, you do, or at the least, say something.
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I was renewing my registration at my local DMV when I saw a friend of my mother's renewing her license. The lady was in her 80s and all you need to do is fill out a renewal form and pass the vision test. The clerk asked her to read line 5, "Can't read it". What about line 3? "Uhhh, nope." Line 1? "Ok I can see that." Here's your new license. SMH
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My father had dementia and the DMV wouldn't take his license even after we told them a doctor recommended that he not drive. We hid is keys and unhooked the battery from his car to keep him from driving. Even in his addled state he was very clever about getting what he wanted. Finally I put a junk battery in the car and snipped a wire in his battery charger. It's amazing what people in the first stages of dementia are capable of.
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The girl living below my apartment in college was legally blind, could drive, and had a handicapped plate to park in the handicapped spots.
Turns out in her case that having really bad near sightedness classifies you as legally blind. But with her glasses on, she could pretty much see fine. I can kind of see how this type of thing leads to braille on drive up ATMs. |
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