Day 7: Lawse, yes...I have a parent with memory issues. Primarily, I was told that I would be doing all the driving this year and that "she" (i.e. my mom) would say nothing. The gist here is that my mom hates riding with other people. When she does, there is an onslaught of expressions, breath intakes, warnings, second-guessings of the driver's capacity to read road signs or recognize traffic lights. In short, it' s nervewracking unless she refrains from said behavior.
All of that said, she has not yet kept her promise. In point of fact, I daresay she' s incapable of doing same until she is prepared to relinquish " control".
Sigh.
Today was meant to be simple: We were going to CostCo in Augusta GA, followed by a trip to the Augusta Mall. The reason was that we decided to forgo our annual drive to Greenville SC. That decision was mine following Day 6's annual drive to Spartanburg SC to visit our cousin, Dot, have lunch at Wade's, and to make a trip to a cemetery to place holiday flowers on the graves of my grandparents and great grandparents. It was nervewracking. Nothing happened...no near-incidents...just comments about my speed (I was driving too fast even though I was under the speed limit). My stops were too abrupt, my starts were too fast, my lane changes were not what they should be, etc. There was no way I was going through that again today, or so I thought.
Sigh.
Day 5 was Sunday and I drove only a couple of miles with no comments.
So, today was a rough one and completely unenjoyable. I am going nowhere else that involves me driving longer than 10 minutes. I hope the remainder of my stay is uneventful by comparison.
