[Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Hello Douglas,
Thank you Good Sir!

Trust me, it isn't an easy task to say the least! Certainly when one has
been accustomed to hopping in a vehicle of many variations and away you go
for about 70 years or so. Without any thought that someday you will have to
end it! Damn it's a very miserable feeling! :-(

Then you turn the key off and throw the keys away knowing you'll never drive
again in the everyday fashions of those many past years?

Yep it's an extremely tough call to make on oneself! Better that way than
killing yourself or another. But what you don't lose immediately is? The
underlying feeling to hop in the car and away you go! I'll sure be glad when
it's gone! :-)

cheers,
ted




-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of
Douglas Barry
Sent: November-23-14 3:16 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!

Ted,

You made a difficult choice - both bravely and pragmatically taken.  You've 
set a great example that many of us as we age can learn from, and will 
remember.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:57 AM
Subject: [Leica] MAKE IT YOUR OWN CHOICE!


> Given I have just returned home from a Day in Vancouver where my Grandson
> Kyle and I sold my Mercedes in a step down in life where I no longer 
> drive.
> Unless of course it were a situation as it was when at the age of 13 I 
> began
> my driving lessons on the 100 acre fields of the farm acreage? :-) Quite
> easy really as you could go miles and never crash into anything. Good
> fortune I never have on the streets I've driven about the world either.
> Scared the hell out of myself on occasion!!!! :-)
> I suppose more to do with "The Great Spirit" looking after me! :-) Rather
> than my ability? :-)
>
> Throughout my life of driving stock cars and sprint cars during car racing
> for quite a number of years between assignments. Then during my military
> training in the Canadian Armoured Corp as an NCO, eventually Officer
> training driving tanks, several types of Armoured cars. The GMC 15 ton
> STAGHOUND armoured car WITH TWIN ENGINES THAT COULD ROLL ALONG THE HIGHWAY
> AT 80mph's or quietly creep along tracks through the country side looking
> for the enemy!
>
> And scout cars in a RECCE Regiment. You name it, the vehicles of many 
> sizes!
>
> Anyway with what I considered a great amount of Common Sense due to a 
> number
> of reasons? I took my self off the road as a driver! I need not have an
> accident nor kill someone, possibly self? So I hung-up my driving keys! 
> :-(
>
> Any way one more common sense movement by my own doing rather than having 
> to
> engage in a Government Department of Transport driving examination and
> having some whipper Snapper of a boy telling me.... "YOU CAN'T DRIVE
> ANYMORE!! GIVE ME YOUR DRIVERS LICENCE AND KEYS! :-( :-( In the usual dumb
> ass manners of some government employees.
>
> There are some things sacred in one's life and that's driving a vehicle 
> for
> one of many! And when you deem you can't or don't do it as safely as you
> once did????? TAKE YOURSELF OFF THE ROAD!" YEP A SAD DAY INDEED! BUT 
> COMMON
> SENSE PREVAILS. :-(
>
> In any event a wonderful day also visiting and enjoying the company of
> Tuulikki and Tom Abrahamsson who assisted in this days adventures! :-)
> Thanks folks very much.
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
>
>
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