Posted on 07/31/2013 10:59:50 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
This is most definitely a current event. My son was just picked up today for his first 2 hour driving lesson. I can't believe it's come to this. :)
I'm sitting here at work and I feel a tremendous - I don't know what. This is almost surreal.
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.
better than that chickun dude who’se first post was an opus.
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.
Lighten up Francis.
A teacher over engaged with his student’s sexuality.
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.
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!
feel not fell
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.
Well said, but I will add to your advice: Pray frequently.
That is not a bad idea at all. I like it!
-PJ
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.
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.
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?).
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.
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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.
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)
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