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Stupid is as stupid does

Just came back from Publix at Colony. Headed south on the Morse cart path from 466A toward Sanibel gate when I saw a black SUV headed up the path. He apparently figured it out when the track divided.

After he managed to turn around, he went tearing back toward Sanibel gate yelling at carts to get out of his way.

Given that you have to make a greater than 90 degree turn to get on the path headed north, got to wonder.

Forrest was right.

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Originally Posted by Bizdoc (Post 701642)

Bizdoc Believe it or not its a common occurrence. It may be cost effective if TV invests in warning signs on the pathways because it isn't working at each of the paths entrances

Seen it a few times on a few different paths

It boggles the mind how ANYONE could confuse a cart path for a street. Duh!

Isn't there always a center post where the path meets the street that they would have to run over to get on the cart path?

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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 701649)

Bizdoc Believe it or not its a common occurrence. It may be cost effective if TV invests in warning signs on the pathways because it isn't working at each of the paths entrances

If they can't tell a road from a path, I really wouldn't put much confidence in their reading skills either.

what I enjoy is watching a cart driver in front of me while I'm in the car, he's waving his left arm around and I think he's turning, but he's just telling the passenger about the landscaping job he sees over there.

then there are cart drivers who are perfectly in the cart lane to my right and SWERVE suddenly way out in front of me. why? lawn sprinkler...:faint:

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It boggles the mind how ANYONE could confuse a cart path for a street.

Vision problems, poor depth perception, inattentiveness, transient ischemic attack, alcohol, etc. I know two people who ended up on a multi-modal path in their cars and had no idea how they got there after they "came to."

As always, drive defensively!

i would blame it on summer but it happens any time...

I am guessing a lot of it is not paying attention because this afternoon I almost made a left on the cart path off O'Dell 'cause I was thinking about something else and had recently gone that way in my golf cart. The good news was "I almost" did it but realized the error of my ways. I can understand how this happens. :22yikes:

After spends a lot of time in my cart, I have in the past drove in the cart lane on a road, but not for very long!! have seen others do this too.

guess it wasn't a snowbird! ;)

I wish the author of this thread had not used such a harsh descriptor to describe this behavior. And it looks more a more like 'Stupid!' has become the standard TV descriptor for any less than perfect action by anyone.

Let's take a breath folks, and realize that for us, this is the 'new normal'. We recently came from places where a greater percentage of the population is more coordinated, capable and less impaired. Oh sure, there is a lot of 'stupid' outside the bubble, but less than here. Did you know that fully 40% of the TV population has a stage one or higher level of some cancer? Some of them drive on treatment and fatigue days, most with no doctors advising against it. Then there are literally thousands more afflicted with other ailments and natural impairments afflicting us as we age. Together I'm suggesting these wonderful people make up the MAJORITY of the TV population, and I am not even counting those who voluntarily impair themselves occasionally or regularly.

Are you willing to give up driving your car and then your cart when you have some problems or close calls you realize you shouldn't have had, or probably wouldn't have had 10 years ago? Probably not, if you are like most people. We don't want to think about that and it's NORMAL that this is one of the last decisions we are willing to make.

So lets concentrate a little more on the real circumstances in which we now live. We love the beauty, enthusiasm and activity here, but the flip-side is that we are all aging and becoming more impaired at a rate we've never experienced before. It's not pretty, but if we can learn to accept it we will be a lot better off. I believe we can even be happy as we feel ourselves aging.

Let's understand this about ourselves and others and extend this understanding to others by expressing more tolerance.

Practicing tolerance can even help us. It lessens the confusion, frustration and embarrassment when we make our own mistakes.

Could be "distracted driving" as well. Think about it, a person drives that buggy path many times a week in his cart, next time he is in his truck,not thinking or otherwise distracted he finds himself following his regular daily path,, opps, I am in the truck. Shouldn't make excuses though. In truth I have driven all over the Villages many times and I can tell you it is easy to get distracted, so much to see.

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Originally Posted by ijusluvit (Post 701864)

Hear! Hear! Well said.

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Originally Posted by ijusluvit (Post 701864)

I wish the author of this thread had not used such a harsh descriptor to describe this behavior. And it looks more a more like 'Stupid!' has become the standard TV descriptor for any less than perfect action by anyone.

Let's take a breath folks, and realize that for us, this is the 'new normal'. We recently came from places where a greater percentage of the population is more coordinated, capable and less impaired. Oh sure, there is a lot of 'stupid' outside the bubble, but less than here. Did you know that fully 40% of the TV population has a stage one or higher level of some cancer? Some of them drive on treatment and fatigue days, most with no doctors advising against it. Then there are literally thousands more afflicted with other ailments and natural impairments afflicting us as we age. Together I'm suggesting these wonderful people make up the MAJORITY of the TV population, and I am not even counting those who voluntarily impair themselves occasionally or regularly.

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Are you willing to give up driving your car and then your cart when you have some problems or close calls you realize you shouldn't have had, or probably wouldn't have had 10 years ago? Probably not, if you are like most people. We don't want to think about that and it's NORMAL that this is one of the last decisions we are willing to make.

So lets concentrate a little more on the real circumstances in which we now live. We love the beauty, enthusiasm and activity here, but the flip-side is that we are all aging and becoming more impaired at a rate we've never experienced before. It's not pretty, but if we can learn to accept it we will be a lot better off. I believe we can even be happy as we feel ourselves aging.

Let's understand this about ourselves and others and extend this understanding to others by expressing more tolerance.

Practicing tolerance can even help us. It lessens the confusion, frustration and embarrassment when we make our own mistakes.

40% of we Villagers have cancer is quite a fact, where did you get that number?? Also I agree with the orginal oposting, stupid is the perfect description.