Posted on 05/13/2006 6:36:21 AM PDT by dukeman
My 17-year old daughter is going to her first prom tonight. The date seems to be a decent enough kid, although he's a little too much into love of his car. I'm looking for suggestions on a good "safety and respect" speech to be delivered to this young man. I've thought of taking out and sharpening my Dad's Korean war souvenir bayonet in front of him (just to focus his attention), but that may be too dramatic.
Suggestions?
Exactly my sentiments.
Oh, the ones with all that electronic garbage on the motors and such? Nah - no need for all that stuff. I miss my 74 - used to give a lot of bigger cars a serious run for their money. And if I couldn't beat them redlight to redlight, I could kill them on the backroads.
With the gun cleaning, you don't need the speech.
I'm one of the few folks you'll meet who actually did this. But it was my daughter's idea, not mine. She really wanted to go to the prom, or homecoming dance or whatever it was, but wasn't real sure about the upper class band beast (she was a lower class band beast at the time) who asked her. So... the rest is history, and so was the guy after that. But that night he was on his best, better than his best as it happens, behavior. :)
The look on his face...priceless.
I'd probably get thrown into jail today for such a stunt, at least in some jurisdictions, but that was 15 or so years ago, and in Texas.
We are going to borrow a friend's car and follow them for the entire evening.
Did something like this with my younger daughter. It properly impressed the slime ball, although he still came within a hair's breadth of being the next silhouette target, and the not so bad guy. The third guy thought it was cool. He's her husband now. :) He and the other son-in-law, (father of the amazing Miss V, who turned one yesterday) and I now occasionally go shooting together.
These things often work out quite well.
We are going to borrow a friend's car and follow them for the entire evening.
Remember this rule of surveillance: Switch vehicles in mid-assignment to further confuse the targets. And good luck!
That does sound even more impressive than the shotgun technique. Oh boy does it! However it's not applicable to the vast majority of fathers who don't live on farms or ranches, and wouldn't have a clue how to go about castrating the bull calves if they had any. (Or would have the stomach for it).
These days the same might be true of having a shotgun, but you can run down to WalMart, or the local pawn shop, and buy a cheap one as a prop.
It also never hurts to let them know that anything they even think about doing, you've already done.
no offense, but you don't know jack about boys obviously... these "testosterone-spiked threats" are very effective and often necessary especially with modern boys whose parents have raised them to think that premarital sex is perfectly ok.. I think the dads (and a few moms) who have offered these threats as advice are loving, caring parents with NO illusions about how boys think.
"Unless you've been loitering near the entrance...."
As a good boy scout, one needs to "loiter around" to make sure some young lass does not get all tangled up in her thong.... :)
the "talks" with the young men involving guns not only work well for prom dates but for older people as well...
My husband has an acquaintance who considers himself a "player" and has no compunction about sleeping with married women.. he has told my husband and another friend that he would never touch their women because they are both well armed and he is terrified of them.
My niece is 17, and that's sort of what they did. Her female friend's father has a restored antique car (even by my standards, a pre-WW-II vehicle) The two couples were driven to and from the prom in that vehicle, by the friend's father. Even though I live about 800 miles from them, I've met the friend, as she came down with my brother's family (and my mother) to attend my daughter's wedding last summer, I took the girls and my nephew to Six Flags in Arlington Texas.
Heeheheee
My Dad was "cleaning" all his guns when my sister's boyfriend came to ask if he could marry her.
I had never seen them all out before or since. I guess he liked my husband better. :)
I don't know why I'm laughing since I have a son and a daughter!!! But LOLOLOLOL
Just say NO works just fine and she'll be thankful in the morning.
I have 5 older brothers. They had to meet all the sisters' dates. There was never a problem. Just being introduced as our brothers seemed to do the trick.
He used to pull her hair, step on her toys, and generally get into wars in the backseat of our car when we went on trips.
They became teens and he became her protector......he's still that way and she's married and he's done his military service. They're there for each other.
I wish I could hear the same. My daughter, has increasingly flinched at rules and authority. She is not a bad kid, but has never been interested in abiding in her parents authority. She'll be 18 in 3 weeks and I'm gearing up for the major changes to hit.
Tell him that speed ruins the outside of cars, and that body fluids ruins the insides of cars.
Better yet --- just show him this thread.
Ask him is his car is named "Superman"? If not then remind him that he's not faster than your speeding bullet and that your not afraid to go back to the joint and finish out your manslaughter your sentence!
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