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My gift to all you parents whose teens are setting off with their brand-new driver's permits. (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Jun 2012 OP
Vroom Vroom, put put! Ptah Jun 2012 #1
I'm going to do this!! My 15 year old is a speed freak already, she's fearless riderinthestorm Jun 2012 #2
17 years old driving my buddy's enormous cruise ship of a boat 1970(?) Ford LTD convertible... MiddleFingerMom Jun 2012 #3
oh that'll work CleanLucre Jun 2012 #4
I sort of agree, but 3K is okay on the tach. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #5
 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
2. I'm going to do this!! My 15 year old is a speed freak already, she's fearless
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 03:18 PM
Jun 2012

and is ALWAYS over the limit, usually by 10 miles or so.

My speeding tickets have clearly not worked in providing her an example of what NOT to do, no sirree....

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
3. 17 years old driving my buddy's enormous cruise ship of a boat 1970(?) Ford LTD convertible...
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 03:39 PM
Jun 2012

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... top down 90mph in a 50mph zone with Bill and Bobby sitting ATOP of the back seats. Instinct made me slow
down to 70 when I took a curve and got zapped by a cop with a radar gun.
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I was on my driving permit and the cop took pity on me and only wrote me up for 60mph.
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Went overseas in the Army shortly afterwards and came back 4 years later to find that they had revoked my permit
and I never actually had a full license during those subsequent years.
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We were invincible, invulnerable and amazingly lucky as we did 98% of our thinking with our enormous brass balls.
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