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Sunday Acoustic: Calum Graham, "Burning Up"

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs2/16/2015 9:50:00 am PST

re: #448 danarchy

92 year old woman.

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I think they said it was a guy, not a woman.

Don’t they require people over the age of like 80 to get a new license every year? I can’t imagine the insurance cost for someone 92 years old.

My grandmother, at 84, used to pay almost $5000 for auto insurance (she should not have been driving at 84. She was a road hazard…couldn’t stay in a single lane at all. I tried, I can’t count how many times, to get her to stop driving.) She said her car was her freedom. Mind you, she lived in Chicago, on Lake Shore Drive, where the bus stopped in front of her building, the city provided free handicapped transit, and she had a doorman with immediate access to taxi cabs. Not to mention that cab drivers throughout the city who would have loved to be at her beck and call (she was a great tipper).

That said, medical issues can pop up no matter the age.

A girl I used to work with was in an accident where a guy (in his 40’s) had a heart attack and hit her and several others. And my friend’s ex husband, at 38, had an epileptic seizure (the first one in his life) and ran into a house…the entire car was in the living room, it broke through the front bay window and kept on going.