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It's wonderful. I remember Alvin Straight. I also remember an old geezer ticked for DUI driving his lawn tractor on the sholder a few years ago. To the local bar, where else.

7 posted on 08/21/2006 6:48:58 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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I think the old guy would be legal with a golf cart. You see folks driving them everywhere. At least he quit driving the car.


9 posted on 08/22/2006 3:19:42 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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We had an old farmer in the town where I grew up who lost his driver's license for life due to too many DWIs. His response? He took to driving his Minneapolis/Moline tractor to the cafe, the store and the bar.

The inevitable happened, of course, and he rolled the tractor on his way home from the bar one night. He got his legs, hips and one shoulder dinged up, and that was pretty much the end of his self-reliance. After that he had his wife or son and grandkids haul him around and he was no longer a regular at the bar.

He died peacefully in his sleep one night some years back. At least the bottle didn't get him.


11 posted on 08/22/2006 1:56:21 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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