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Posted on 07/31/2013 10:59:50 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

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To: InvisibleChurch

Here in Tampa many of my kids friends drive alone at 16. I’ve refused to let my kids have their license and drive alone.

perhaps if we lived someplace more rural I’d relax more. Its not that they lack the judgement. Its the other idiot drivers out there.


61 posted on 07/31/2013 12:05:45 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: BenLurkin

better than that chickun dude who’se first post was an opus.


62 posted on 07/31/2013 12:06:28 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Vaquero

I taught my two sons on a stick and they had to initially learn how to take off from a dead stop without using the gas pedal.


63 posted on 07/31/2013 12:06:53 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: lewislynn

Lighten up Francis.


64 posted on 07/31/2013 12:06:59 PM PDT by kimmie7 (Can you hear the cries of “MORE CAKE” echoing off the hills?)
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To: digger48

A teacher over engaged with his student’s sexuality.


65 posted on 07/31/2013 12:11:05 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: lewislynn

Some people have real problems to deal with...I don’t think you are one of them.
Get a grip and grow up.

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Clearly you are one with real problems.


66 posted on 07/31/2013 12:25:26 PM PDT by dmz
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Buy an 8"x15" Magnetic Vent Cover

Cut it in half long ways.

Write STUDENT on one and DRIVER on the other with a black Sharpie.

Slap those puppies on the back when gets his learners permit and you'll fell a whole bunch better when you have to take him on the road. I even made Clint Jr put them on after he got his Probationary license for the first 6 months. Yeah he rebelled and stuck them on upside down but he will tell you people stayed way back or went the long way around him.

Good Luck!

67 posted on 07/31/2013 12:28:12 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Clint N. Suhks

feel not fell


68 posted on 07/31/2013 12:31:55 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Spruce

Cherish the time you have with your children. It goes so fast and you cannot get it back.

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So very true.

Enjoying my grandsons now, though. But, no, it’s not the same....

The time flies so fast.


69 posted on 07/31/2013 12:33:11 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: Vaquero

Well said, but I will add to your advice: Pray frequently.


70 posted on 07/31/2013 12:36:23 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

That is not a bad idea at all. I like it!


71 posted on 07/31/2013 12:36:42 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Now you can add going to the grocery store to his list of family chores.

-PJ

72 posted on 07/31/2013 12:37:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Help me cope

Oh just wait... I realized the other day that my 2 year old grand daughter was headed out the door with my car keys saying "I start the truck for you".

That's when you need help coping.

73 posted on 07/31/2013 12:46:43 PM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I know the feeling. My son graduates from the Corpse ( :)) in two days.
I think being on the roads today is more dangerous. Tell her the turn signal is on cars for a reason. That causes most of the accidents out here in CA. I don’t know what the driving test is, I think you just have to find the ignition with the key.

All my prayers.


74 posted on 07/31/2013 12:49:50 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
A little reminder for your son, and all other drivers:

Did you know that your car has a secret device on it?

75 posted on 07/31/2013 12:50:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Vaquero; Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

My youngest daughter was ready to learn to drive, but my elder daughter always ‘needed’ the car (our only automatic, my wife has a 5-speed mustang GT). So my youngest decided she would have to learn to drive dad’s car - a 5 speed volvo (yes, I drive a volvo...15 years old, 200k+ miles).

She now has her own 5-speed she drives, and wouldn’t have it any other way.

I am amazed at how few people know how to drive a stick these days. Even guys my age (almost 50...dang, I am old...when did that happen?).


76 posted on 07/31/2013 12:55:56 PM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Driving with friends can be very dangerous. My three children were all good students and reliable drivers. But the only time one of them had an accident while I was in the car, my eldest pleaded to drive while I was taking her - and her friend - back to college. Fool that I was, I acceded, even tho it was snowing. I know, dumb!

We passed some other cars that had gotten stuck, and my daughter locked eyes with her friend, losing situational awareness. By the time I focused her back on the road, she was in trouble - and I commanded an action that I knew would cause us to leave the road, because other options looked even worse. Plowed into the snow on the roadside, and hit a guardrail, $3K in damage to the car, but at least it ran - as long as I kept giving the radiator transfusions of water. Bought some antifreeze to put in it when I stopped the engine long enough for it to cool off.

When we crashed, my daughter started talking about “never driving again.” I immediately quashed that thought by telling her she would drive again that same day. Anything else would have just caused trouble.


77 posted on 07/31/2013 1:05:58 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

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78 posted on 07/31/2013 1:19:52 PM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted......)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Our daughter knew everything under the hood and how to change a tire before she got behind the wheel. In Texas, parents can teach kids, as long as we use the Official TXDOT Drivers’ Handbook. She had driven the golf cart many times, and knew how to handle a vehicle.

The first time she got into my pickup, she floored it like the golf cart. Burned a bit of rubber, but she got the feel of a real vehicle. When I took her on her first driving lesson, she rolled through the first stop sign. I made her back up and come to a complete stop at the white line. She listened after that.


79 posted on 07/31/2013 1:26:21 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Hope you have better luck than we did. He went thru drivers Ed with flying colors. After 16 tickets and the third car he totaled we told him we weren’t buying him another one. That last one was a graduation gift. To be fair one of those wasn’t his fault. Took him a long time to figure out that a car was a tool and not a toy. He’s 26, works full time now, drives a BMW and lives in San Antonio.

Hope that cheered you up. ;o)


80 posted on 07/31/2013 2:31:01 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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