...a month????? (softy!)
"Wm. Severin Thompson" wrote:
> This whole subject is frightening and amusing at the same time... as my
> daughters are turning 15 and 13 shortly.
>
> Kate, my eldest, has had an interesting journey in her automotive tastes.
> (Don't s'pose I should take any of the blame on this, huh?) She starts
> driver's ed this summer.
>
> Her first "must have" car that she claimed she'd drive when she got her
> license was a Lamborghini... :). Then, she decided on a Stealth Turbo. We
> were getting closer to reality when Jim Donato's brother John, a Chrysler
> engineer brought a hand built right hand drive second generation Neon to the
> race at Grattan a few years ago. She got a ride during track touring, and
> that soon became the car she said she would get when she got her license.
> Lately, as a high school freshmen, she's been bopping around with her
> friends in a Toyota Rav4... and inevitibly it has become her favorite.
>
> Last week, I explained to her that my '84 BMW 733i was likely to be the "car
> she would be allowed to drive" as opposed to "her car". Of course this was
> met with all sorts of protestations. I announced my one concession on her
> "free ticket to ride" would be that if she kept it clean, and learned to do
> minor maintenance, I would put a CD player in it for her.
>
> I also explained that her mother and I both drove $100 cars for the first
> few years of our marriage, which was all we could afford. I also explained
> that back in 1971, my first car was a 1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe Club
> Coupe... a 23 year old car. In 2002 when she gets her license, the BMW will
> be a relatively young 18 years old.
>
> My thinking is this very stout, well built, heavy, safe, 4 wheel disc brake,
> well engineered, (crush zones... not just marketing hype) sedan was a far
> better choice than some POS lightweight newer econo car, even with the
> addition of airbags in more "modern" cars. (First time I ever catch her or
> her friends driving without seatbelts, the car gets put away for a month.)
>
> WST
> (My father's best advice ever... "Boy... if you've got a girl or a car...
> you've got a problem!".)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Byrns <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
> To: James Kleemeyer <jkk@adams.net>
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: First Day Over, No LBC
>
> >day 1 daughter gets license
> >day 2 daughter gets beat to sh** Tercel given to me by friend
> >day 3 dad yells from garage "Hey, you wreck that POS yet?"
> >day 100 daughter gets first speeding ticket (thats my girl!!) dad throws
> >her a map to local court
> > and says "Fess up, pay up, shut up."
> >
> >Regards,
> >Glen Byrns
> >
> >> Sunday- Daughter turns 16
> >> Monday- One day reprieve (DMV closed)
> >> Tuesday- Take Daughter to get her license
> >> Wednesday- Let Daughter take V-6 Probe to school, worry all day, get home
> >> and nonchalantly walk around car twice. While eating supper, Daughter
> says
> >> to wife, "Did you ever notice how gray Dad's hair is getting?"
> >>
> >> Jim K.
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