Yeah - one evening we were having dinner at a little diner down the road. Seated next to me at the counter was a nicely dressed gentleman who asked me if I would read the menu to him, as he was blind. Obviously, I did, and helped him through his dinner as needed. He started complaining when the waitress was slow in bringing him his food - he had to be sure and leave before the sun went down because he had a hard time driving in the dark....... Guess if we want to be safe, our defensive driving skills need to always be extra sharp!

My husband's licence renewal arrived today. The cost will be $90.00 Cdn. It will be good for 5 years. He does not need a new photo - they will move his last one over to the new card. Mine had to be renewed a couple of months ago - as did the licence plate since the car is in my name- that was expensive too. I wish now I had renewed the plate for 2 years rather than 1 year since shortly after I paid the fee it was announced that plate registration is going up so I would have been ahead of the game. I just didn't want to give our Ontario premier more of our money to throw away.

When my mother was 86, she'd had an illness where her doctor had asked her not to drive 'temporarily'. When she was well, he told me the HMO lawyers wouldn't let him give permission for her to drive again even though he felt she could. I can be her worst critic, but also her biggest defender and arranged for her to be evaluated (cognitively and driving skills - the evaluator went out with her behind the wheel and rode with her, much like an initial drivers license test). He said she would have his blessing to drive if she would take two brush up classes for driving. Brush up ;0) She'd never had a lesson or test, she'd bought her license at the corner drugstore in Kansas for something like 50 cents. i.e. She didn't know, had never heard, two hands on the wheel and drove left handed for her evaluation. But - she took the required two classes at her own expense, passed with the instructors recommendation and resumed driving. In her city of about 38,000 and not on the freeway. Two years later she sold her home, car, moved to independent living in a city of more than 600,000 and its traffic where she didn't have the confidence to drive. That time it was her idea, and worked out fine - we didn't have to have the 'time to give me your keys talk'.

So looked up some info on the real I.D.,, which I had forgotten about completely. It's available in Frankfort and they have limited walk ins. I'm going to call them tomorrow and ask if there are limits to walk ins. When I walked in here they asked me when my license expired and when I told them that's when they told me to call and make an appointment. They may have done it if it was way overdue? Thanks for all the responses.