What was I thinking getting a new car????

[cepmom]

DD16 got her learner's permit yesterday ~ yay Courtney!!


so I let her drive home from picking DD8 up from dance last night and to the bus stop this morning............what was I thinking getting a brand new car two months ago....I have a new driver in the house and I'm going to let her practice driving on my brand new car???

She came *this* close to side swiping a parked car on the right side of the road last night, almost backed into the telephone pole behind our driveway and put the car into park this morning before the car was fully stopped

God help me! I should have waited and let her practice on my old piece of junk!!

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

Ahhhhh that is why I kept my old piece of junk (actually its in good condition) so my DD can have that vehicle when she got her license, which will be another 59 days of waiting since she failed the backing in part of her license test yesterday she wasn't perfectly in-between the lines and needed more practice . . . I will never let her have my new vehicle for practice . . .

Good luck with the driving lessons . . .

 

[cepmom]

I think I'm going to have to suspend all driving lessons on my car until she has finished drivers ed classes....let her practice on their car

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[mtblujeans]

I think I'm going to have to suspend all driving lessons on my car until she has finished drivers ed classes....let her practice on their car

My DS has had his license for more than a year now and I can't get in the car when he is driving! I can't explain it....fear is an unreasonable thing!

I do, however, take comfort in his driving a bigger, newer vehicle. Especially with the ice and snow on the roads. In my mind, I justify it that if he slides off the road there is more wrapped around him to keep him safe - even if that isn't true!

 

[horseshowmom]

DD recently spoke in her Speech class and used her experience as a beginning driver as her "entertaining speech" - specifically the time we were in the parking lot at the doctor's office in our large F-250 crew cab truck, and she "meant" to put it in drive but actually put it in reverse and barely missed backing into another vehicle.

I was on the phone with her father at the time and did suggest rather loudly that she stop immediately, but I did NOT scream, "We're all going to die!" as she told her classmates (to lots of laughter)! (But I did wonder about it from time to time as I rode with her... )

 

[The Mystery Machine]

DH has been driving "dd's car to be" for a couple of years. I don't think I could let my dd drive a brand new car...

You better load up on tranquilizers!!!

 

[Galahad]

DH has been driving "dd's car to be" for a couple of years. I don't think I could let my dd drive a brand new car...

You better load up on tranquilizers!!!

We are buying DS's "car to be" this week. DW will drive it and he will drive her 7 year old car until he's ready to go off to college in 2 years. Then he can have the "new" car.

 

[Nancy]

You are brave, my DD has had her permit for about 3-4 weeks now and so far she can drive in the church parking lot with no cars in it and down our street during non-busy times. I have not let her into traffic yet! I told her she could get her permit, I never told her she could drive! LOL.

I would never let her drive in traffic or back up without some serious parking lot practice first..so that means we have to get up very early on a Sunday and head over to the mall before it opens...one of these Sundays I will have to take off so we can do that.

 

[monarchsfan16]

If it makes you feel any better I learned (successfully) to drive in a 2000 BMW convertible (even took my drivers test in it just hours after an ice storm). This was in 2002. In dad's defense: it was that or his monstrousity of a pick up truck. I didn't drive that thing until the following summer when we were out in Nebraska, towing a boat Mom wasn't about to teach me to drive (parents are divorced), and she definitely wasn't letting me near her Mercedes (which was like driving a boat) until I had several hours with both dad and the instructor under my belt. Course even now I have a hard time getting her to let me drive her Toyota, and I've been licensed 3 years
I did spend a few hours though on this one straight road that sees maybe 3 cars a day (except Sundays when all the teens in town are learning to drive ) before I was let out into traffic.