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Slightly different topic, but not really. My daughter is a good driver. I mean, she is well coordinated and, when she is with her father or me, is capable of driving according to the rules of the road with good judgment. Or she used to be when she drove. When she was 16 or 17, after having a learner's permit for the requisite amount of time in our state, she got her driver's license.
She has emotional problems and has never worked. She has, therefore, never earned the money to buy her own car. She has only been allowed to borrow family cars. When she borrowed family cars, she used terrible judgment with them. When she was doing a high school internship at a nursing home, she drove there and back without making any side trips and we had no problems. But then she started to take friends from Community College on trips all over creation and to crash the car into pillars in garages. She underage boys without licenses drive it, and speed with it. One of them backed it into a rock. I found out one of them was driving it with her lying across the hood and once with her sticking her head out the skylight. Speeds exceeded 100 mph.
The result has been that she hasn't driven at all in about three years. I have said that she cannot drive any of our cars until she demonstrates that she has become responsible, and she surely hasn't done that. Until I read this thread I would have told you that there is nothing I have put have put my foot down about with my daughter, because she runs wild over everyone here. But she doesn't drive any of the cars and hasn't in years.
Deb/AGBF
She has emotional problems and has never worked. She has, therefore, never earned the money to buy her own car. She has only been allowed to borrow family cars. When she borrowed family cars, she used terrible judgment with them. When she was doing a high school internship at a nursing home, she drove there and back without making any side trips and we had no problems. But then she started to take friends from Community College on trips all over creation and to crash the car into pillars in garages. She underage boys without licenses drive it, and speed with it. One of them backed it into a rock. I found out one of them was driving it with her lying across the hood and once with her sticking her head out the skylight. Speeds exceeded 100 mph.
The result has been that she hasn't driven at all in about three years. I have said that she cannot drive any of our cars until she demonstrates that she has become responsible, and she surely hasn't done that. Until I read this thread I would have told you that there is nothing I have put have put my foot down about with my daughter, because she runs wild over everyone here. But she doesn't drive any of the cars and hasn't in years.
Deb/AGBF