Willy, brother, don't mind you asking at all. Any ideas on how to smooth out that kind of bad news would be mucho apprecioso'd.
I honestly always try to empathize with them because I truly do realize how devastating it would be to lose my driving privileges. However -- and this is what I delicately try to get across -- there's also a huge public safety issue to consider. Of course everybody is initially in denial and if I've heard "
I ain't never had a wreck yet " once I've heard it a million times.
I may have mentioned this story a few months ago...A late 60ish dude comes in for an exam and the first thing out of his mouth as we're going into the exam room is "
I'm just here to shut her up," meaning his wife
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. He said she bitched at him constantly about his driving and he'd heard enough. Long story short, he had horrible (20/400 acuity), yet correctable, vision -- BUT HE REFUSED TO WEAR GLASSES. Now he was a jackass that I had no problem with bluntly telling him he was wrong. As he was leaving I said that, unless a heart attack got him first, he was gonna die in a car wreck and the only question was how many people he was gonna take out with him haha.