The American Spectator

I used to work for a service station. The owner had a large number of old ladies with high mileage cars as customers. They did all their scheduled service. Their cars lasted forever. Usually longer than they did. Young men seemed to be able to wear out a brand new car in six months.

I sold car insurance before it was illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender. The statistics were very clear. Young men were the worst drivers. Old women were the best.

Young men have wonderful reflexes, wonderful vision, wonderful mechanical understanding and absolutely no good judgment. They drive terribly bouncing from accident to traffic ticket to accident. Old women drive intelligently and don’t drive when they think they can’t.

Old ladies with bad vision, bad reflexes, and no mechanical ability, may annoy young men, but they never stomp on the accelerator or the brake. They drive cautiously. They don’t get into accidents and their cars last forever.