Dark outside!

Another age related problem hit me yesterday. Sorry if this has become boring! A couple of days ago I was invited out to dinner at the weekend. I accepted with alacrity..the lady offering hospitality is a person I bump into from time to time and we exchange a laugh on a regular basis! I was pleased to accept the invitation and still am but last evening I realised Why I couldn’t go. She lives in a lovely house in the village. But driving to it is the problem. I gave up driving in the dark last year after a narrow escape from an oncoming set of headlights shook my confidence. So today I must offer my apologies. I really can’t set out in the dark. Parking when I got there would be another problem if I can’t see well enough to park safely. I am cross with myself for only thinking about this yesterday after I’d accepted her kind invitation. If we had a good taxi in the village I could take that but we haven’t. So this morning I must make my apologies. The trouble is that I don’t look decrepit. Up close I can still pass for campus mentos...but the sad truth is that although I’m not actually gaga I am getting there...fast. Oh dear! But I would be a hazard on the road to other people....my memory of the last time I attended the panto in the village and drove myself home afterwards is of the relief after driving the few miles home! So its one more thing I can’t do any more...drive myself anywhere in the dark! The problem is that once I’ve made this a statement, people who are good and kind offer to take me....but I really don’t want to be reliant on other people’s goodness. It’s not fair on them so I’m getting used to eating humble pie...it is not the end of the road...just the end of my social life until next summer!