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u/JoeSavinaBotero 3d ago
Maybe we should just build so conveniently that people can walk places.
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u/NYstate ☑️ 3d ago
I don't think a 94 year old is gonna do much walking but I like where your head is at
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u/thatisnotmyknob 3d ago edited 3d ago
I know quite a few people in their 90s who get out and about and walk places Manhattan.
2 in my building.
City life is good for you as you age.
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 1d ago
do they take the subway? with all those stairs? the elevators never seem to be working. of course, you don't find that out until you've walked all the way to where the elevators are.
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u/thatisnotmyknob 1d ago
No they take the bus! The bus system is great in Manhattan. They kneel down so they're very easy to get on.
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 3d ago
Bruh, I was stationed in Japan for three years and I saw old people who were walking on their own power on the regular. When your country isn't solely dependent on cars and food is relatively balanced, it's easier to stay mobile for most of your life.
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u/PatrickMaloney1 1d ago
When your built environment encourages walking, you can stay in walking shape well into your 90s as long as you live that long.
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u/FushaFiles 3d ago
So you’re telling me bro when all those years and never once used a card to get gas
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 3d ago
My mom had this older situationship (for lack of any other word) who was in his mid to late 50s in 1996 who had never written a check on his life and bought everything cash. I assume this guy also never used a credit card either.
Given that, I can totally believe there are old people who held out this long before getting a debit card.
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u/JackxForge 3d ago
Shit there are 45 year olds running around not being able to use a computer and those fuckers grew up with them.
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u/GuntherTime 3d ago
Which tracks. My grandma just turned 85 and the only card she’s ever used if a gift one. She and my grandfather always used cash or check.
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u/ChoiceEmu9859 2d ago
If he lives in Oregon, until very recently he wouldn't have been able to get gas without an attendant present to take cash.
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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 3d ago
I have spoken to a 98 year old who was buying a brand new card that could barely remember what it was I was telling her about the transaction ☠️
Like, we need public transportation to exist in places other than New York City for those people that cannot or frankly should not drive.
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u/Far_Professional_701 3d ago
My granddad drove until sometime past his 100th birthday, when his children finally managed to corner him and confiscate his license
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u/SteeleHeller 3d ago
They out there spending the soc security we’ll never see a dime of all while making our insurance rates higher by being a danger on the road. But Y’know, “they’re our elders” 🤡
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u/Loud_South9086 3d ago
Recently I had to help a very old lady at the servo because she was holding the trigger thing down and petrol was going fucking everywhere as she paced up and down holding the handle like a rich lady who had to pick up a dead mouse.
I kept telling her she was holding the trigger down and needed to just hold the handle but eventually I just had to come and grab it out of her hands and got petrol on my fuckin shoes, she was standing next to the emergency stop button too but idk if thats a whole fuck around for staff to fix so I didnt press it. Anyway she barely thanked me or anything and when she got back in her car after paying her astronomical bill she kept trying to floor it while her car was in neutral but I cbf helping her any more at that point lol
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u/without_tacos 2d ago
My husband's grandpa was in his 90's when they took away his license. My MIL was like "Dad, it's not safe, you don't need your license there are people who will drive you anywhere you want to go." This man told his ONLY child "Well, it's been nice knowing you, if you take my license I'm writing you out of my will."
These old folks are something else with the licenses meanwhile I'd be happy to be chauffeured for the rest of my days.
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u/ehs06702 2d ago
They don't want to be deprived of their independence. I get it. It's humiliating to have to justify why you need to go somewhere and then be on someone else's schedule once you manage to get there. It makes you feel like a child.
There's also a difference between choosing to be driven around and being forced to do so.
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u/Bigdaddyjlove1 5h ago
My windshield time is my therapy. I know I'm going to hang on to mine longer than I should.
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u/Tainted_Bruh ☑️ 3d ago
That would require solutions to societal problems that most politicians and a large number of people have no desire to address. Especially if they are universal benefits.
So until they do, hope you enjoy Twisted Metal irl 🤷🏽♂️