You’ve got a good plan. My parents did the same thing and my siblings and I showed off a lot less than our peers because we knew there was nobody to bail us out.
I often heard “you always wreck your first car”. As if it was just acceptable!
My parents didn’t think it was acceptable at all. Neither of them wrecked their first cars and I knew my butt would be in a sling if I wrecked mine. Thankfully I didn’t. Someone else did for me, though… another teen driver broadsided me my junior year.
The business we’re in exposes us to an unusually high percentage of idiots, I think. Especially those who work primarily in claims, you folks no doubt see the worst of the worst. So it’s no wonder we often operate under the assumption that things like personal responsibility, intelligence, common sense and concern for the safety and welfare of others is the exception and not the rule.
Perhaps society in general is moving that direction? I don’t know. But I, for one, am fed up with so much nanny legislation. There are some things I agree with, like imposing fines on people who dick around with their cell phones and send text messages behind the wheel. Lump ’em in the same category as drunk drivers. While I don’t think the actual law will prevent the majority from using their phones or driving distracted, I think the revenue raised from the fines could be put to good use.
It just seems like if we keep making law on top of law on top of law, we’re playing with fire. We’re going to law ourselves to death. Certainly there’s a better way?
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KLS,
You’ve got a good plan. My parents did the same thing and my siblings and I showed off a lot less than our peers because we knew there was nobody to bail us out.
Thanks for the reassurance.
I often heard “you always wreck your first car”. As if it was just acceptable!
My parents didn’t think it was acceptable at all. Neither of them wrecked their first cars and I knew my butt would be in a sling if I wrecked mine. Thankfully I didn’t. Someone else did for me, though… another teen driver broadsided me my junior year.
The business we’re in exposes us to an unusually high percentage of idiots, I think. Especially those who work primarily in claims, you folks no doubt see the worst of the worst. So it’s no wonder we often operate under the assumption that things like personal responsibility, intelligence, common sense and concern for the safety and welfare of others is the exception and not the rule.
Perhaps society in general is moving that direction? I don’t know. But I, for one, am fed up with so much nanny legislation. There are some things I agree with, like imposing fines on people who dick around with their cell phones and send text messages behind the wheel. Lump ’em in the same category as drunk drivers. While I don’t think the actual law will prevent the majority from using their phones or driving distracted, I think the revenue raised from the fines could be put to good use.
It just seems like if we keep making law on top of law on top of law, we’re playing with fire. We’re going to law ourselves to death. Certainly there’s a better way?