Telling your parents to stop driving

By Kevin Roderick | July 18, 2003 1:20 AM | 2 Comments

Don Barrett, who operates the L.A. Radio website, writes on the L.A. Times op-ed page about making the wrenching decision to take the car keys from his aging father -- after the DMV wouldn't.

He was furious and has not been civil to me since that day. But I know it was the right thing to do.

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