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Old 04-24-2008, 01:18 PM
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Default Re: Had to bring this to the top!!! Driving requirements for Golf Cart drivers!

This is not an issue easily addressed.

ouma1938, We too spent spent 5 days in TV last year and this year... just left as a matter of fact and both times I felt extremely vulnerable while driving around in a Golf Cart. Last year we were loaned a "spiked" Cart which belonged to a resident who drives at speeds which make my hair stand on end which is quite a feat as my hair is EXTREMELY curly! This year we rented a really crappy, smelly old, herky-jerky gas cart from TV Golf Cars and felt like a real target.

In some cases it seems that people are just bad/reckless drivers while others have no business behind the wheel of ANY motor vehicle at all. In fact we began to realize that some of these folks had actually never driven any type of vehicle before in their entire lives as they had lived in places where public transportation was all they needed.

I must admit that I made a few mistakes navigating the paths and tunnels and found myself in trouble; my sense of direction isn't very good and without the compass in my own vehicle I get confused easily lol. A couple of times I found myself in the middle of the road instead of the cart path and that was a bit unnerving to say the least.
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