| Driving at night is something that many people avoid | | | | day when it was light out. After going to the |
| doing as they get older. For instance, the last few | | | | optometrist, it was determined that she definitely |
| times that I went to visit my 78 year-old grandmother, | | | | needed a pair of glasses and that she also had a |
| my uncle had invited us over for dinner at his house | | | | cataract on one of her eyes. She was disappointed |
| and she refused to go, getting upset. I was surprised | | | | but relieved to know that she wasn't going crazy. |
| by her behavior and asked her was she was so upset | | | | Whether you are an older driver or not, night driving |
| and didn't want to go. She then told me that she had | | | | often proves difficult for most people. At night, our |
| informed my uncle that she does not feel comfortable | | | | vision is reduced greatly, and we find that we are |
| driving at night and therefore couldn't understand why | | | | unable to see things quite as clearly as we could during |
| he would purposely arrange for something to be taking | | | | the daytime hours. It is for this reason (as well as |
| place at night when she felt this way. I wound up | | | | others) that most people prefer to drive during the day |
| solving the problem by offering to drive us both over | | | | when things are illuminated and they can see much |
| to my uncle's house that night. Still, however, I was | | | | more clearly. If you do drive at night and are having a |
| shocked at her behavior. I didn't see the big deal in | | | | considerable amount of difficulty seeing what is going |
| driving over to my uncle's house- especially when he | | | | on, then consider the fact that you may need to make |
| only lived three miles away from my grandmother's | | | | an appointment with the eye doctor to have your |
| apartment. | | | | eyes checked. At night, there are many nocturnal |
| Recently, my mother informed me that she was | | | | animals and wildlife that come out to feed. The most |
| having an increasingly difficult time seeing at night when | | | | common example of this are deer, which are notorious |
| she was going to tutor. It eventually got to the point | | | | for hanging out near the edges of roadways. |
| where she was driving home from a night of tutoring | | | | It doesn't take much before suddenly you are face to |
| and had to pull over to the side of the road because | | | | face with a deer or some other animal directly in front |
| she couldn't make out the street signs and all of the | | | | of you as you are trying to drive. This is why it is |
| vehicles that were driving opposite of her seemed as | | | | important to drive the posted speed limit or just below, |
| if their headlights were blinding her. My younger brother | | | | especially if you are traveling on country or back roads |
| went to pick her up from where she was, and she got | | | | or through heavily wooded areas. |
| a ride back to where she had left her car the next | | | | |