Like the title said, how do you take away the keys from someone who has been driving since 1938?
My great aunt is 85 and no longer fit to drive. But she thinks she is. The big problem is that she never married, worked in the public health service, owns 4 houses in two states, has lived in at least 7 states, was a world traveler... Basically, she's the most stubborn independent person I know. She won't take any suggestions from my mother or any of her siblings or cousins, rarely takes advice from my dad, and occasionally takes them from me or my brothers (which drives everybody else crazy) but she will not take this one. And anyways, other than my cousin who has 5 kids, we are the only relatives within four hours of her.
So how do we take away the keys? I know she will probably fail her driving test, but that won't be until February.
Or, alternatively, how do we disable the car so she can't drive it? My initial thought is to go to her [retirement] home and drain the battery overnight, then disconnect it the next morning, but that would stop her for about an hour--this is the woman who taught me how to roll-start a car. Any simple way to do something like this in a 98 Buick Park Ave?
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