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Writer’s Workshop — Overt Agism

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For his Writer’s Workshop this week, John Holton gives us six writing prompts and we are tasked with choosing one of the prompts (or as many as we want) and writing a post that addresses that prompt (or those prompts). I am responding to three of the prompts this week:

  1. Write a post inspired by the word expire.
  2. Write a post in exactly nine (9) sentences.
  3. Write about when you learned to drive (or at least how old I was).

My driver’s license was about to expire, so I logged on to the Department of Motor Vehicles website to renew my license, as I have done ever since the DMV launched its website and began offering online renewals for driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations.

I typed in my name, address, and driver’s licence number, as I usually do, but the next screen that showed up shocked me.

It said that because of my age — 80 — I can no longer renew online and instead, have to go to the DMV in person, take the written “rules of the road” exam, a vision test, and a road test.

I wasn’t worried about the written test or the vision test, but taking an actual road test where I have to demonstrate that I can parallel park my car?

I haven’t taken a road test since I first got my driver’s license when I was 16 years old, 64 years ago!

This is an outrage!

It’s a blatant case of age discrimination, pure and simple.

I am calling my lawyer and telling him to sue the state DMV for overtly practicing agism.

After all, while my driver’s license is about to expire, I am not.


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Multiple Prompts Saturday

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Like I told the officer, Detective, there was no way he was doing it. And that was that, I thought. Things weren’t great between them; she was beginning to grate on his nerves. Then he called me yesterday and told me about her ultimatum. I asked him what he was going to do and he said he was going to let her expire. “Her,” not “it.”

(Exactly 66 words)

Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Story Starter Saturday Mix, where the story starter is “There was no way he was doing it. And that was that…”

Also written for Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consiousness Saturday prompt, where the words are great and grate.

Also written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the prompt is expire in exactly 66 words.

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SoCS — The Eulogy

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I am honored to be giving the eulogy at the funeral of my good friend and mentor, Antony Bellomucci. For those of you who knew him, he was a strong and admirable man who could inspire each and every person he came in contact with. All of us who worked with him and who loved him, have tried, in our own ways, to aspire to be like him. But alas, as with everything in life, there comes a time when the baton must be passed and when new blood must take over. Let us all pray for our late Antony Bellomucci, whose time to expire had arrived. His will be big shoes to fill, but, alas, he now swims with the fishes and I have taken over as the new godfather.

Written for Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. This week, Dan Antion, from No Facilities, is subbing for Linda and he has given us the words “inspire/aspire/expire” and asked us to use one, two, or all three in our post.