Posted on 09/01/2009 8:09:39 PM PDT by cakid1
“I taught my girl how to shift so I could drive with my arm around her.”
I reversed the steering column so that I shifted with my left hand and my right was always free to play!!!
This is an option that you can purchase for your teen driver. If the government mandated this I would be against it. It’s like anything else. If people want it they will buy it. Let the market decide.
I was a teen in the mid-50’s. My dad didn't need no stinkin’ GPS! To this day I have no idea how he managed to know just about everything I was up to. And the most amazing part is that I had no idea he knew! I thought I was really slick. Come to find out over the years that I was pretty slick, but he was a whole more slicker!
Thinking back to when I was a new driver...17 years old...I can see where certain limitations should be placed on little Billy or Buffy as they drive the family sedan.
Not to mention that most of today’s family sedans are far quicker than even the Mustangs and Camaros of my day.
Geeze....did you grow up in a hippie commune or something? My parents had complete control of everything they owned *and* everything I owned when I was 16.
We baby children too much now. Raise ‘em right but then give them room to make mistakes. You don’t grow up if you are protected from everything.
“Geeze....did you grow up in a hippie commune or something?”
Nope, grew up in Los Feliz Silverlake area of Los Angeles.
It’s a terrible idea because it stunts the normal development of personal responsibility. They won’t have mature self-control skills when Big Brother is no longer looking over their shoulder.
I was only kidding when I made that remark.The point I was trying to make is that your parents,unlike mine,accepted the concept of "private property" for 16 year old sons.At that age I wasn't mature enough to responsibly handle such control...particularly over a car.
You,of course,may have been different.
I bought my first bicycle with my own money so I wouldn't have to walk the paper route with the 200 papers.
My parents could have bought me anything I wanted but they made me work for everything I got.
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