AARP driver safety classes target needs

NASHUA – Mary Ellen Smith of Wilton recounts a story of driving one night at dusk with her husband, Dick. “There was this great, big, beautiful full moon,” Smith said. “And I said to my husband, ‘Isn’t that full moon beautiful?’ And he said, ‘That looks oval to me.’ And I said, ‘Oh-oh.’” Smith said she waited a couple of days before approaching her husband about his ability to only see the moon, half full. She recommended that he get his eyes checked. “‘And until we get things worked out,’” Smith told her husband. “I think it would be better if I drove.’” “You know, it’s hard to say something like that diplomatically,” she said. The Smiths, along with a dozen other area residents, recently took an AARP Driver Safety Program class offered at St.