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    Robin Abcarian: Proving to the DMV that you can drive when you are 89 years old is not for the faint of heart

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2018 4 minutes

    Visiting the Department of Motor Vehicles is never a totally pleasurable experience; usually the most you can hope for is an absence of pain. But waiting for a test in Culver City recently felt like torture.

    I was having flashbacks to my 16th birthday, the day I failed my driver's test at the Canoga Park DMV. I was a teenage loser. Devastation does not begin to describe the way I felt that day.

    The minutes ticked by.

    At last, I heard a man call: "Abcarian?"

    The moment of truth had arrived.

    My father stood up.

    "You got this, Dad," I said. "Don't forget, you've been driving for almost 80 years!"

    A 16-year-old boy sitting next to me looked up

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