Sending along my prayers and hopes that you ace the test and continue to be King of the Road.

My best wishes, prayers, thoughts are with you. May the enjoyment your posts have brought be returned to you in the form of your license renewal.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you tomorrow, Ed! Look yourself in the mirror tomorrow, grin, and tell yourself how fabulous you are. Then go and ACE your interview and exam.

Good luck, Ed. Hope it all goes well for you!

I have no doubt you will shock them! Good luck and let us know when you get that license renewed.

Happy 86th birthday, Ed! Best of luck on your exam.

Hope you get exactly what you want for your birthday.

Fingers crossed!

Happy Birthday Ed! I have no doubt that you will pass, but have said a prayer for you, anyway.

Good luck my quick witted friend.

Best of skill (I won't say "luck") with your exam, and a very happy birthday to you!

Hoping it goes well! Wishing you a very Happy Birthday.

Prayerss for sure!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Happy Birthday!!! Best of skills on your testing, and of course you are in my prayers!

Happy birthday. I am sure you will do fine.

Best wishes to you!

Sue

You'll be great! Enjoy your birthday

Joining the others in wishing you well, on the testing, and your continued vim, vigor and vitality!

Happy Birthday & best of luck to you.

Good luck!

As others have said, I bet you'll do just fine on the test. Good luck.

Good luck Ed! And Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday and good luck on your test. Hope it all goes well for you.

Adding to my birthday wishes, above.

Sooner or later, the day you will not be renewed will arrive. But the factors seem pretty reasonable. I think it is reasonable not to want others who can't see driving on the same road as one is driving on.

I hope you do well.

Best of luck, OJ!

Wishing you the best at getting your license renewed. Happy Birthday too.

You'll get it, no sweat!!

Best wishes, OJ, for passing the driving test and for your big birthday!!

Whoops! It's Wednesday now! How did it go, Ed?

My DH took a refresher course at our Senior Center before he had to test to renew this summer. Good thing, as one of the requirements was to arrive in a vehicle with a front license plate. (We hastily added that!) The instructor also told people they had the right to 'pass' on the first official assigned to do the driving test. (There are some people you just have a bad feeling about!) DH did fine, but was reminded to stop *behind* any stop sign, and only then creep forward if the view was obscured.

I'd prefer to share the road with a careful Senior driver than the entitled jerks out there on phones with who-knows-what in their systems.

Oh, congratulations. I'm so pleased for you, what relief you must feel.

We've been having this discussion here, my former neighbor (now 89) was explaining the loss of independence with stopping driving in terms I hadn't thought about before. My same age 89 yr old mother sold her car just this week, but she had moved to an independent living apartment just 5 minutes from my brother and in a major metropolitan area where she knew she would not feel confident with the heavy traffic - and has less need to drive with him so close and transportation provided as part of her rent. Happily it was her choice, and no one had to tell her she couldn't drive.

Happy Birthday!

so happy for you

They've changed the test, and I checked a sample of the new one online yesterday.

Now, we need to draw a clock face, putting in the numbers in their proper places, then setting the hands to 10 minutes after eleven. I was docked a couple of points because the centre from which the hands would turn on my drawing was a bit off centre - I'd just drawn one hand going down from slightly after 11, then turned the corner to move up toward the 2 without having drawn the centre point first, then drawing the hands going out from there. I'd have been O.K. had I chosen to make my turn exactly in the centre.

Then they give us about 7 long lines of about 70 - 80 unrelated letters, with slight spaces between, and we are to "X" out all of the "H"s, there being about 17 - 19 in each line.

They claim that these test both our cognitive and spatial acuity and ability to judge interrelationships of things.

My regular licence expired in early August, they'd sent me an extension, to keep me operational until now ... but I got pulled over in late August, the policeman confiscated my licence, being expired, and wrote me a $329.00 fine ... without having checked first for the extension. They wouldn't let me move the car, of course ... and were good enough to drive me about 10 miles home, as it was nearly dark. I showed the extension to the court people the next day, but the fine was still effective, so I'm going to court to question it - got the notification of date in early March a few days ago.

So ... we'll see how that goes!

ole joyfuelled ... but with the joy mitigated somewhat by the overhanging fine

P.S. And I figured that if, by getting consultations delayed somewhat by not seeking an appointment for a while after getting the notice ... I might be able to gain a year on them, thus saving half of the $32.60 cost of extension for two years.

Smart-ass!

o j

No flies on you, Ed! haha

Congratulations! I'm very happy for you too!

But don't worry, in a few years, you can get cars that are programmed to drive wherever you want it to. You won't need to go through the hassle you just did. The technology is already under its way. It'll be here soon.

Ole joyful - you've done well for a lad from Saskatchewan (same area where my dad was raised, I believe). And leave it to you to figure out how to save a bob or two! ;-) Many happy returns.

Hi grainlady,

Dad had farmed near London, Ontario and he moved to the prairies in '46, when I was 17.

Dad sharecropped for a few years a section and a half north of Grand Coulee, just west of Regina, owned by a man who'd moved west in 1910 from near London, Ontario, whom grandpa had helped pay tuition for office training.

After a couple of years I went to university in Saskatoon, then seminary in Saskatoon, then spent a few years in Korea, helping refugees get their lives restarted.

After a few years Dad bought a farm a few miles north, south of Lumsden, which Dad, step-mom and brother built to 15 quarters, that brother retired from recently, still owns part of it.

For a number of years I lived in employer-owned housing ... but I knew that when I was fired (which happened over 40 years ago, after marriage broke up, back in the day when clergy didn't DO that kind of stuff!) ...

... or retired ... I'd have to provide my own housing, so figured that I'd better make some preparations.

ole joyful

I sat up in bed last night and thought, Oh! I wonder how ol' joyful went with his test.

Congratulations. You remind me of my Dad even though we've never met. He was quietly joyful too. (Or are you noisily joyful?)

Congratulations on your great news, OJ.!

Great job!!! Knew you would do it.

I checked this thread to see if you had made good and you didn't disappoint. Congratulations! I hope that you can get the fine cancelled.

Good job, OJ!!! I often wondered what the written test is like. Interesting.

I'll bet some of those H's might have been confusing if they're next to I's (capital i).

Hi sassy jassy,

They were capital "I"s ... and my eyes didn't have trouble figuring 'em out.

My right eye is not as strong as the left, and they had tests for each separately before, but yesterday was able to use both to tell numbers, and they flash lights at right and left to check peripheral vision.

Hope you're all having great days, today. I was at the Old Farts' club - it's my turn to bring goodies to go with the coffee (or tea) next week.

ole joyful

Wa Hoo!! Way to go!!

As always I truly enjoy reading your posts. The content is secondary to your way with words. Thank you. I do hope this all works in your favor.

Hi (again) Amer Auto Ass'n. ("A A A" for short)

It has, so far ...

... now all I have to do is avoid getting into "scrapes" (or bang-ups) ...

... and I'm good to go for the next two ears. (Dang keyboard - that was supposed to be "years"!).

Hope I can keep the equipment between those "ears" - and function, as well - in half decent shape for those two years ...for in recent times increasingly it seems as though I can't remember a darn thing.

ole joyfuelled

Glad it's over. Now you should plan a road trip and visit some of us!

Good to hear, OJ!

Good for you.