I was driving down 183 in Austin when I saw the Amber Alert: "Missing elderly. Houston, TX. Blk Dodge Avenger." not unusual, except an identical alert had been posted a couple of days ago. This got me thinking, who are these missing elderly and why are they driving? Shouldn't their kids or grand kids take away the car keys the first time PopPop or MeeMaw go AWOL?

 Scary to think there are scads of dodderers out there on the highways and byways merrily driving along, mot a thought in their heads except driving to the nearest discount store for adult diapers, laxatives, or erectile dysfunction  meds. 

Then there's the quandary of determining if that elderly person serenely  tooling along in the fast lane at a steady 55 mph is justifiably able to drive. I'm recently retired. To  younger drivers, I'm probably too elderly to drive. I'm in their way.  "Elderly" to me, however, means someone visibly older than I am, and driving slower than I want to.