LANGLEY, Wash. – Alden Couch just celebrated his 101st birthday. And he passed his Washington state driver’s test with flying colors, if you listen to him. “I haven’t parallel parked for 10 years and I sailed through it like nothing,” he said.
A resident of the Whidbey Island town of Langley, Couch planned to take a birthday drive — by himself — down to the local senior center, where his friends had a party planned for him. Then he planned to drive home — by himself again.
Good for him.
He’s a former lineman for Puget Power who is 95 years older than the Impala he now owns, which happens to be his all-time favorite car.
“It isn’t the cheapest one in the whole deal, but it’s a good one,” he said.
Couch used to be partial to Oldsmobiles until he outlived the make, which was discontinued in 2004. The first car Couch drove was an oldie but goodie, Ford’s Model T. It was his parents’ car.
I wonder if he has any bumper stickers on the Impala.