Ray and the world according to him

US OLD PEOPLE IN THE USA

Can get a reduction on their car insurance with most Insurance Companies if we take an approved driving course.. the main one use is the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)  55 alive driving course....

Its basically two session of 4 hours of mind numbing boredom sitting in a room with about 20 others ... No actual driving is involved ...

Joyce and I were the youngest on our course.. and we are both in our xxxxxxies and we have not a walker between us .. we were immediately seen as suspicious character invading their inner sanctum...

Now the Instructor is a volunteer named Fred ...nice man.. unfortunately his voice is of the one tone nature and to my ears just a droan that when on and on ..

During the session you are asked what would you do in a particular circumstance.. so I was asked what would you do if your saw a hitchiker on the road ... My answer was a simple

make sure its female with large breasts before you pick them up... this went down like a lead balloon and the room went silent ..not even a titter was heard... Fred with a dead straight face said No! the best thing to do is too ignore them and just drive on by ....I was never asked another question the rest of the course...

A bit later Joyce got the question I wanted about safety ..

You are in the Walmart car park just about to drive off  when a young man approaches your car.. and with hand signals he asked you to roll down your window.. what do you do??

Joyce replied "Roll down the window to see what he wants"  This brings a gasp from the rest of the class... So Fred says.. "As the young man gets to your car, he produces a knife and orders you out of the car"  Joyce calmly says " well thats easy ...I lift my .38 and blow his fucking head off "  The whole class goes apoplectic... Fred calm them all down .. and says No! the correct method would be to drive away to a safer place immediately ..

Joyce and I having a giggling attack at all the negative responses to her suggestion..and just as we all settled down again... another classmate 88 year old Shirley ..sitting behind us ..who had hardly said a word the whole session piped up with "I like Joyce's method ..I am going along with that one" pandemonium started up again ..

We got through the rest of the session with neither of us being asked any more question ..

And we got our certificates at the end without fanfare ...  

The course cost $10 each

You have to be 50 or over and an AARP member

we save $60 every six months on our Insurance for the next 3 years.

And then you take the course again ..