Things that happen during the day that make you think....

[Egon]

Horses would be nice but the emission controls may be onerous.

 

[MossRoad]

Actually they do...rates start going back up once you hit 60, though not to the levels of drivers under 25. This may vary by state.

Another factor is the number of accidents indirectly caused by older drivers...grandma poking along in her Corrola doing 35 in a 50. How many people take chances just trying to get around her? Not gonna show up as her being at fault, but she sure contributed indirectly.

I used to buy that argument, but am now leaning towards the real blame is on the impatient person that zipps around grandma.... why? Because I used to be that guy doing the zipping. One day, you grow up and realize that even if grandma is going 10 under the speed limit, whipping around her is probably only going to get you to your destination a minute or two earlier. Its not worth the risk to you, grandma, or any of the other drivers on the road. So, I just cuss at grandma all the way to the next light. One time I had my little girl next to me in the car seat in our pickup truck. Some old bag was going 20 in a 35 zone. Then we stopped at a light and when it turned green she was slow to get moving. I shook my fist at her and yelled "Get out of the way you old bag!!!". I look over and my daughter is shaking her fist at the lady too, and she says "Daddy, that's not an old bag... that's a lady!" :laughing:

 

[Gator6x4]

I always give silver haired individuals driving a car with a Florida License Plate plenty of room. Florida Drivers License Renewal.

 

[Redneck in training]

Isn't FL the state where most people think that they are required to turn on left blinker first thing in the morning and leave it on all day?
In Czech Republic, if you are 65, 68, 70 then every two years after that you have to have have a report from a doctor that you are able to drive before you renew your license. I guess people get their annual physical exam just before DL renewal. If you drive without confirmation from the doctor and you are involved in an accident your insurance could refuse pay for the damage.

 

[mark02tj]

They'll give a license to anyone in California. I don't think age should be a deciding factor, I just wish people had to learn to drive BEFORE they were given a license! (oh, and I wish California would enforce the 'you must have insurance to drive' law, too)

Ohio has a "Financial Responsibility Act" that requires you to carry insurance in order to renew your license plates (but not your driver's license). You sign at the bottom of the form that you have insurance, but are not required to show proof at the DMV. WTH? I think that you should have to show an insurance card for each vehicle you're renewing. At least that would show that they have insurance for a week or two - at least until they don't make their next premium payment! LOL!

 

[mark02tj]

Here is another day, and another - make you think:

Taxes, that time of year, I am looking at my tax return, prepared by professionals.

I have not opened it. It is a 1/2 thick.

I'm guessing that you have some form of business or investment income and you're not just a "normal homeowner with a job".

I am a non-practicing CPA that used to prepare taxes. I worked for one of the large, international firms in the tax department of the local office. I was also the tax manager for a medium sized local CPA firm for a while. There is more "favoritism" crap in the tax code than you can shake a stick at!! Last I heard, the tax code and regulations is somewhere around 75,000 pages. When I was practicing (late 80's, early 90's) I had a copy of the code and regs on my shelf. The Code was 2 books, each about 2.5" thick of that tissue thin paper. The Regs were 4 books about the same thickness. And our tax library was literally full of tax research books full of cases, opinions, private letter rulings, etc. Who can know all that stuff?? NO ONE! Something needs to be done to completely overhaul the system that's currently in place.

I think that the first step should be outlawing the withholding of taxes from your paycheck. That would cause the necessary revolution when everyone would actually have to pony up their tax bill every year instead of thinking "I didn't pay any taxes, I got money back." Sheesh!!

 

[riptides]

I'm guessing that you have some form of business or investment income and you're not just a "normal homeowner with a job".

I am a non-practicing CPA that used to prepare taxes. I worked for one of the large, international firms in the tax department of the local office. I was also the tax manager for a medium sized local CPA firm for a while. There is more "favoritism" crap in the tax code than you can shake a stick at!! Last I heard, the tax code and regulations is somewhere around 75,000 pages. When I was practicing (late 80's, early 90's) I had a copy of the code and regs on my shelf. The Code was 2 books, each about 2.5" thick of that tissue thin paper. The Regs were 4 books about the same thickness. And our tax library was literally full of tax research books full of cases, opinions, private letter rulings, etc. Who can know all that stuff?? NO ONE! Something needs to be done to completely overhaul the system that's currently in place.

I think that the first step should be outlawing the withholding of taxes from your paycheck. That would cause the necessary revolution when everyone would actually have to pony up their tax bill every year instead of thinking "I didn't pay any taxes, I got money back." Sheesh!!

Yeah, I am not normal. LOL.

I looked my 1/2 inch thick return over last night again. This AM I sent the remainder of last years taxes due to the Fed and State. That giant whine you all heard, that was me. It will be a few months until I get over sending money to government bodies, and then I get to startup the process all over again.

I like the idea of everyone paying into the system, somehow I don't think that will work. But the systems does need an do over.

I keep looking across the room, half inch thick, half inch thick.......

 

[aczlan]

Ohio has a "Financial Responsibility Act" that requires you to carry insurance in order to renew your license plates (but not your driver's license). You sign at the bottom of the form that you have insurance, but are not required to show proof at the DMV. WTH? I think that you should have to show an insurance card for each vehicle you're renewing. At least that would show that they have insurance for a week or two - at least until they don't make their next premium payment! LOL!

NY has your ins co tell them that you have ins coverage. If your ins co doesn't send in proof of ins to the DMV they will suspend your license and registration. If you drop ins coverage before turning in your plates they will also suspend your license.

Aaron Z

 

[3930dave]

It has been one of those days, one of THOSE weeks already, and I was thinking....

On the way home, saw a neighbors fence line taken out by a big boom truck, road blocked off too..... took out a utility pole too.....

Hope everyone was OK, but darn.... what was the person doing? It looked like a hundred feet of field fence were taken out. That will be a lot of work.

Cedar posts, the old fashion type. Sad.

Any word on the cause ?

Might have been mech. failure, but I'm betting on texting.

Rgds, D.

 

[riptides]

Any word on the cause ?

Might have been mech. failure, but I'm betting on texting.

Rgds, D.

No word. The police report is not public yet, either. But I am curious. It might have been that once off road, it was way hard to get back on road due to the way soft ground. That might explain why so much fence was taken out. But, I too am curious. Will keep you all posted.