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Annoying aunt, but sympathetic feelings
Okay so my 60 year old aunt immigrated here (Canada) about...one year ago? And her English is so bad and she slurs and her voice wavers and sounds like she's going to cry when she speaks her think accented English and it annoyed the hell out of me (and still does) but I've learned to keep my mouth shut and only make a face at her when I'm in my own room by myself thinking about her, because she's likely going through some worse things than I am.
And just like me, she's recently keen on getting her G2 (crazy, I know) and I finished long ago but I know that she's probably been having a rough time because the teachers in the driving school I was in was probably not patient for someone like her and the teens there are terrible! Unlike them who were forced by their parents to go to get a lower tax fee or something, she's actually there to learn and I know that things must be hard for her but I don't know what to do. This isn't exactly the best city and the teens are absolutely rude and ignorant and I don't know EXACTLY what's it's been like for her but I just know that it probably hasn't been good and I can't get the feeling out of my head and I don't know how to stop thinking about it.
When she first came I was honestly waiting her to just live here until she passes away, but that's the bitchiest thing for me to say and I honestly don't think like this for any other older population, just her because she's a family member and I really hate my family. But then I realized that 60 is probably a long way to go til 100 and that she's gotta at least do some things she wants to.
Am I a bitch for thinking that she shouldn't be driving in her age (she can't even do the homework from driving school and asks me to help her, which is like doing it for her since I can't speak our…language that isn't English. But it's kind of confusing when you look at the book and you don’t know exactly what the instructions are since the teacher isn't here to tell me what to do. But the teacher actually told her to go home and get ME to help her with it!) or is she able to? She even has walking problems and her legs always camps up and she's always dizzy and she's slower than me! Is it really safe for her to drive? And is there anything that can be done to prevent…sneering from other teens due to the circumstances of exactly who she is? Sometimes you have quizzes at the end of class on the overhead and I'm usually the one who holds people back a minute longer because I really read through the words, but she wouldn't understand some of the words and even has a English translating dictionary and the teacher cannot put the next slide until she's done so I can only imagine how rude and anxious those teens would be.
Sorry I'm ranting.
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it seems to me that your embarressed to have your 60 yr grandma to be in your driving school and i agree teen are ignorant and rude but you shouldnt care what other people think and your find when you talk think and act for yourself you may even have follows and i dnt think its bitchy and you understand her feelings as well i think your right she shouldnt be driving really at her age exspecially with her medical problems have yuvmentioned this to her if not you need to do so... i hope i helped
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