Mom sells rule-breaking son's car ("Meanest mom on planet.")

AP ^ | 1/9/07

[JWinNC]

Mean parent bump... God Bless them!

jw

[Ouderkirk]

When I was about 12 my dad told me that in his house we live by The Golden Rule:

"He who has the gold, makes the rules...you get your own gold, you can get your own rules.

Right now it's MY gold, and thus MY rules.

That little speech pretty much ended the discussion of who was running the show.

[RGSpincich]

Thanks. This article is now copied and pasted....on my boy’s bedroom door.

[DogandPonyShow]

19 years old...?!

Foot...meet son’s ass!

[napscoordinator]

The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is “very, very unhappy” with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.

Kids are still trying that excuse? lol. You would think that eventually people would realize that it does not work.

[gridlock]

Better to sell the car when it is still intact than after it has been wrapped around a telephone pole.

The son’s excuse that the alcohol was from a passenger does not relieve his responsibility. Frankly, having drunk passengers in the car means their son is doing things he ought not be doing.

That whole “designated driver” thing is for more mature people, certainly over 21. At 19, his job is to get himself and his sober friends where they are going safely.

[RGSpincich]

This kid is 19. He needs to find a job and buy his own car.

Yep. My kid is 17 and bought his with his own dough. I can still dispose of it until he's 18, though.

[shbox]

Absolutely not.
Here's another GOOD mean Mom. Man, I'd hate to be a kid when she gets the belt out.....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My Dad always referred to our household as his “Benign Dictatorship” because Mom was really running the show, LOL!

[humblegunner]

After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car

It's hard to find any gas that doesn't have that ethanol stuff in it.

What's the big deal?

[FishTale]

"What's not to get?.....Your dad was telling you that he had done everything you were doing and had tried all the angles on his dad and they didn't work for him either......."

Mebbe you neglected to see the part about him saying... "but my boys have heard that line more than once now."

What's not to get about that? Just in case you are having trouble comprehending, it means that he did not understand it at the time when he was a young buck but now that he has grown older and wiser, he now uses his dad's line on his own kids... BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS NOW!

Sheesh

[Old Sarge]

This kid is 19. He needs to find a job and buy his own car. This kid is 19 - he needs to ENLIST.

[lonerepubinma]

We caught our 18 year old son with a few “pops” in him when he came home New Year’s eve. He lost the privilege of driving his car for a few weeks and I canceled his cell phone due to the fact he used it to lie to me. I read some of the things he said about me to his friends and “mean” was the least of them.

[Alberta's Child]

When I was in high school a similar situation occurred with a friend of mine. His parents found booze in the car and punished him (I think they took the car away from him for a couple of months), despite his claim that "someone else left it there."

It turns out he was right about someone else leaving it there -- and the "someone else" paid a very high price for it. The retribution involved an @ss-kicking and some vandalism to the other person's car -- so in the long run I think a good lesson was learned all around.

[Constitution Day]

Yeah, really. As a parent, this mom is my hero!

Re: buying your own car...

When I was 15 I bought a 1955 Chevy from the original owner (this was summer 1986).

I had already been working on my grandfather's tobacco farm for years and bought it for $1400 with some of the money I'd saved.
My parents DID pay for me to have it repainted, though.

I still have the car. :)

[rawhide]

[xcamel]

[50sDad]

The Red Corvette

• (John McCutcheon)

  This morning as I read my paper
  In search of a new set of wheels
  My newspaper had a most curious ad
  In its listing of automobiles

  I smiled with suspicious amusement
  At what looked like a great stroke of luck
  "Corvette" - it said - "low mileage, bright red
  Two Thousand-Four model, sixty-five bucks"

  I'm used to my newspaper's errors
  But I called up the number straightway
  "About the Corvette - have you sold the car yet?"
  She said, "No, you're my first call today"

  I said, "There's been a mistake in the paper;
  They printed the price wrong somehow."
  "No, they haven't," said she, "They got that from me."
  I said, "Don't sell - I'm leaving right now!"

  Her home was in part of the city
  Where I'd ventured just one time or two
  Where doctors, bank presidents, lawyers were residents
  And the houses were massive and huge

  As I pulled up the half mile of driveway
  There, in the heat of the day
  In the sunshine it gleamed, the car of my dreams
  Only sixty-five dollars away

  The interior was done in red leather
  The engine a massive V8
  A white cabrio top like new from the shop
  And the CD hi-fi sounded just great

  There was chrome on the chrome on the fenders
  With an aerodynamic design
  It had a bar, a TV, and - amazing to me
  For sixty-five bucks it was mine!

  I thought that woman was crazy
  Selling the car at that price
  As we walked down the lane she seemed perfectly sane
  She was charming and really quite nice

  And she smiled with great satisfaction
  As she handed me papers and keys
  I said, "I've just got to know why you let this thing go?
  What's wrong with the car, tell me please!"

  She said, "I'll be sixty on Tuesday.
  I've lived here with my husband Earl.
  After thirty years wed, and without a word said,
  He's run off with some silly young girl.

  But he left his credit cards behind him,
  So I knew that he wouldn't get far.
  Last night, from Capri, he emailed to me:
  "I need money, dear, sell the car."

[steve-b]

[cyclotic]

My 17 year old daughter just bought her first car this week, with her own money from her job. She spent all day yesterday cleaning it. We got it real cheap cause it needs a trans, but her grandpa is a tranmsission mechanic.

It’s tough for her because it had to be towed home and I need to tow it out to his place across state so it’s still going to be a few weeks.