Face palm - another fender bender...
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the first sixteen years are the worst
So far, I have found the first twenty-six years are the worst. Note: My son is twenty-six tomorrow!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Yeah - but at 16 you can throw them out and change the locks... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Tom Deketelaere wrote:
Never having to worry about where to park it and such was nice.
Yep! My second car was bought specifically for driving round London. A Simca gawd-knows-what I bought for £10, it started, stopped, and looked like the veteran of a couple of dozen accidents. You could park it anywhere and not get boxed in (because it was obvious that it just shoved it's way out anyway); cars always gave way at junctions rather than lose a wing; it was brilliant. For a total heap of junk. I sold it after a year, for £10, to the bloke I bought it off!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Hmm mine was a bit more costly, but did sell it for half the price again after 2.5 years. Here we have a rule that the person entering a road from the right has priority (stupid rule I know) but I loved to do that in the city I worked. It's know for having a lot of rich people there, so making all the Ferrari's and Bentley's and what not break like hell was fun, and the look on their face when they realized they almost crashed (at low speed) into a car that only costs as much as their bumper (probably) and that I was in my right, that was just priceless :) I miss that car. With the one I have now (company car) I keep checking if I locked it, I'll even avoid parking in certain area's. Ah well I guess that's progress in live right? :)
Tom
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Yeah - but at 16 you can throw them out and change the locks... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
No you can't. There is the Missus to reckon with... :)
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Slacker007 wrote:
It's all temporary and will work itself out
Yes, with children the first sixteen years are the worst... [edit]Except in Spain, where the first eighteen years are the worst, apparently[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I'd disagree - I'd much rather change diapers than deal with drivers. Then they get bigger, choose mates and there's that much more drama... I dream of having a http://www.myoceanis.com/[^] when it all hits the fan, I just cast off and I am so elephanting out of there. :laugh:
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Hang in there and keep your chin up. It's all temporary and will work itself out. Doesn't make it any easier, I know. edit - I would figure out "why" she is wrecking cars? Is she that bad of a driver, or is there something else at play.
why? Hell, she's 19, knows everything and thinks she's a F-1 driver. And she wrecked the minivan :~. Seriously, it's just a new driver thing... Phase 1: super careful, slow, paranoid Phase 2: hey I can do this! It's not so hard Phase 3: why are you so upset dad? it wasn't my fault Phase 4: crap, I wrecked *my* car, this so sucks. Phase 5: okay, I'm coming up on an intersection that collects idiots, I better slow down... I tore up cars too, so I see the traits. I am so much like my dad now.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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:omg: I think between my 19 yo daughter smashing my cars up and my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars, I'm going to have a heart attack. My wife even made the comment that she's noticing I'm drinking more... well duh
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Every human looks itself superior driver, smarter, better to others until it the Dunning-Kroger effect
Dunning-Kruger effect[^] actually.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Tom Deketelaere wrote:
Never having to worry about where to park it and such was nice.
Yep! My second car was bought specifically for driving round London. A Simca gawd-knows-what I bought for £10, it started, stopped, and looked like the veteran of a couple of dozen accidents. You could park it anywhere and not get boxed in (because it was obvious that it just shoved it's way out anyway); cars always gave way at junctions rather than lose a wing; it was brilliant. For a total heap of junk. I sold it after a year, for £10, to the bloke I bought it off!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
You could park it anywhere and not get boxed in (because it was obvious that it just shoved it's way out anyway); cars always gave way at junctions rather than lose a wing; it was brilliant.
I have always enjoyed that about having an old clunker. It gave the message that I didn't care about another scratch or dent. People gave way on the road and didn't park too close because they knew I would just bang their car on the way out of a parking spot if I was boxed in. :-D
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:omg: I think between my 19 yo daughter smashing my cars up and my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars, I'm going to have a heart attack. My wife even made the comment that she's noticing I'm drinking more... well duh
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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why? Hell, she's 19, knows everything and thinks she's a F-1 driver. And she wrecked the minivan :~. Seriously, it's just a new driver thing... Phase 1: super careful, slow, paranoid Phase 2: hey I can do this! It's not so hard Phase 3: why are you so upset dad? it wasn't my fault Phase 4: crap, I wrecked *my* car, this so sucks. Phase 5: okay, I'm coming up on an intersection that collects idiots, I better slow down... I tore up cars too, so I see the traits. I am so much like my dad now.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I can identify myself in those phases. My first car also looked like it was in a few accidents before and after my first winter it got a bit worse. There was just one crash and nothing serious - a few extra scratches, but at that time I got to phase 4. Except the car was really mine. Been very careful since and hope I don't get too confident with the car again. Got a new one now, my girlfriend inherited one from her grandpa but as before we made it so that we are both owners of the car. He really looked after it, I'm kind of afraid of driving it.
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Yeah - but at 16 you can throw them out and change the locks... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Not in Spain... where this won't happen till the 18 by law... I don't have any children but this kind of posts scare a lot :laugh:
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Not in Spain... where this won't happen till the 18 by law... I don't have any children but this kind of posts scare a lot :laugh:
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Original message fixed! ;)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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:omg: I think between my 19 yo daughter smashing my cars up and my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars, I'm going to have a heart attack. My wife even made the comment that she's noticing I'm drinking more... well duh
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars
Wait what? She's nagging YOU for your kid wrecking a car? I wouldn't let that slide man. Lay down the law.
Jeremy Falcon
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charlieg wrote:
my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars
Wait what? She's nagging YOU for your kid wrecking a car? I wouldn't let that slide man. Lay down the law.
Jeremy Falcon
Well, it's more like fretting. Besides after 36 years with her, I just drink more ;) Lay down the law? Are you married? ;P
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Well, it's more like fretting. Besides after 36 years with her, I just drink more ;) Lay down the law? Are you married? ;P
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
Lay down the law? Are you married?
No, I never would be to a woman that did that to me. It's disrespectful.
Jeremy Falcon
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charlieg wrote:
Lay down the law? Are you married?
No, I never would be to a woman that did that to me. It's disrespectful.
Jeremy Falcon
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*grabs the popcorn*
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the first sixteen years are the worst
So far, I have found the first twenty-six years are the worst. Note: My son is twenty-six tomorrow!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
35 (my daughter)! I'm hoping that things will look up soon.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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why? Hell, she's 19, knows everything and thinks she's a F-1 driver. And she wrecked the minivan :~. Seriously, it's just a new driver thing... Phase 1: super careful, slow, paranoid Phase 2: hey I can do this! It's not so hard Phase 3: why are you so upset dad? it wasn't my fault Phase 4: crap, I wrecked *my* car, this so sucks. Phase 5: okay, I'm coming up on an intersection that collects idiots, I better slow down... I tore up cars too, so I see the traits. I am so much like my dad now.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
My favourite fridge magnet: Get yourself a teenager while they still know everything.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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:omg: I think between my 19 yo daughter smashing my cars up and my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars, I'm going to have a heart attack. My wife even made the comment that she's noticing I'm drinking more... well duh
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
sigh :^) Adjuster came out today to add up the damage. Mind you, she just whacked a fender, and in this case, not that badly. Before he had even opened the hood - he was over $5,000. :wtf: I just don't wreck cars. I think the last time I had something in the body shop was when yet another daughter bent our Toyota 4-runner. Just triple elephants. So, the Mrs. says, hey, we can get another car with the settlement.. Right, I know this is going to cost me another 5 grand... I just know.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
