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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1159287" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I actually had some senior citizens on my route whose driveway was really narrow and unmarked except for some faded numbers on a mailbox. The driveway was circular but it was so narrow and overgrown with brush that anything larer than an economy car could not use it. Impossible for a new driver to find in the dark, and a real ordeal for me to try and get turned around. One evening the husband had what they thought was a heart attack, and when his wife called 911 the ambulance wound up going down the wrong driveway at first due to the confusing/missing house numbers. Once they found the <em>right</em> driveway, they got stuck in the mud trying to turn around and wasted <em>another</em> 5-10 minutes fighting to get out after they already had him loaded into the ambulance. Thankfully, all the man had was a bad case of indigestion and all the fuss turned out to be for nothing...but they wound up hiring a guy with a bulldozer to go in there and clear out all the brush and trees and dump enough fresh gravel to where a semi truck could do a U-turn. They even put up an address sign with big reflective numbers on it to show which driveway was theirs. I wish more people would be proactive and do what they did <em>before</em> it becomes a life-or-death situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1159287, member: 14668"] I actually had some senior citizens on my route whose driveway was really narrow and unmarked except for some faded numbers on a mailbox. The driveway was circular but it was so narrow and overgrown with brush that anything larer than an economy car could not use it. Impossible for a new driver to find in the dark, and a real ordeal for me to try and get turned around. One evening the husband had what they thought was a heart attack, and when his wife called 911 the ambulance wound up going down the wrong driveway at first due to the confusing/missing house numbers. Once they found the [I]right[/I] driveway, they got stuck in the mud trying to turn around and wasted [I]another[/I] 5-10 minutes fighting to get out after they already had him loaded into the ambulance. Thankfully, all the man had was a bad case of indigestion and all the fuss turned out to be for nothing...but they wound up hiring a guy with a bulldozer to go in there and clear out all the brush and trees and dump enough fresh gravel to where a semi truck could do a U-turn. They even put up an address sign with big reflective numbers on it to show which driveway was theirs. I wish more people would be proactive and do what they did [I]before[/I] it becomes a life-or-death situation. [/QUOTE]
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