"Uhm dad, I just got in an accident...
- Thread starter Larry Gude
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Well I'm glad she's ok, that sounds like a heck of a banger upper.
Larry, you gonna make her pay for the damage as a result of her poor decision & lack of permission to stray off the flight plan?
I'm still teaching one son to drive. A few months ago I bought a car especially for him to use. We're (he's) driving down a "safe" road and it dead-end's at the lighthouse so I tell him to make a U-bie and turn around. It's blatantly obvious to me that he cut the turn too wide and was gonna go off the road into the brush and bushes. I didn't say anything yet because I though he had sense enough to stop - reverse- and continue forward - WRONG! He heads deeper into the bushes and scratches the hood of the car.
Damn right I yelled! 
I think he got the idea after that, you never want to hit anything with your (especially MY) car. 
Larry, you gonna make her pay for the damage as a result of her poor decision & lack of permission to stray off the flight plan?
I'm still teaching one son to drive. A few months ago I bought a car especially for him to use. We're (he's) driving down a "safe" road and it dead-end's at the lighthouse so I tell him to make a U-bie and turn around. It's blatantly obvious to me that he cut the turn too wide and was gonna go off the road into the brush and bushes. I didn't say anything yet because I though he had sense enough to stop - reverse- and continue forward - WRONG! He heads deeper into the bushes and scratches the hood of the car.
Damn right I yelled! I think he got the idea after that, you never want to hit anything with your (especially MY) car. 
Mountain MaMa
WV bound
Glad she's OK. Give her the hug Larry. Lets hope she learned her lesson and maybe the younger girls will learn from her mistake. Maybe she needs to go to a really slippery empty parking lot and practise. Don't let her wait to long or she'll be scared to drive in bad weather. Sh'es gonna be sore.. Vrai and Larry I know your pain.
K
Kizzy
Guest
I am SO glad she is ok, and hopefully, she will learn a valuable lesson from all of this.
I don't even want to begin to think about my boys driving.
I don't even want to begin to think about my boys driving.
An expensive lesson to be sure, but the important thing was nobody was injured. 
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Thank you all...
...for the kind thoughts and words.
We stopped by the pizza parlor on the way home. When I walked in, I motioned her over and she had this 'oh no...I already feel bad" look. I just hugged and whispered in her ear that I am just happy she's not hurt. That's it. Tear in my eye. Hers to.
We hung out a bit, ordered some 'to go' had two quick beers and reflected on life. She chatted with us when she could. Remembers some of it like total slo mo. I mentioned that she was showered in glass (I had to clean up enough to sit down and drive it away). She doesn't remember the glass at all.
It's just stunning. I was mad as a hornet, outraged, and then two hours later, the ONLY thing in the world was that she was just fine.
The roller coaster of life. Right now, Boardmaw and I feel like WE'VE been in a car wreck...
Get this...my dad was on his way home and passed us by at the wreck site. He saw us all, clearly OK. He beeped my radio..."Need us?" I said "Find me a coffin, about 5' 2" ...we're about to have a death in the family..."
...Surreal....
Night all
...for the kind thoughts and words.
We stopped by the pizza parlor on the way home. When I walked in, I motioned her over and she had this 'oh no...I already feel bad" look. I just hugged and whispered in her ear that I am just happy she's not hurt. That's it. Tear in my eye. Hers to.
We hung out a bit, ordered some 'to go' had two quick beers and reflected on life. She chatted with us when she could. Remembers some of it like total slo mo. I mentioned that she was showered in glass (I had to clean up enough to sit down and drive it away). She doesn't remember the glass at all.
It's just stunning. I was mad as a hornet, outraged, and then two hours later, the ONLY thing in the world was that she was just fine.
The roller coaster of life. Right now, Boardmaw and I feel like WE'VE been in a car wreck...
Get this...my dad was on his way home and passed us by at the wreck site. He saw us all, clearly OK. He beeped my radio..."Need us?" I said "Find me a coffin, about 5' 2" ...we're about to have a death in the family..."
...Surreal....
Night all
She's neither sore nor afraid to drive again. This is the kid who was mauled by a dog and still loves them. Also the one that suffered a very painful wrist break her first time out snowboarding, then spent the rest of the vacation kvetching that she couldn't get back on the slopes. Her first time skiing, she decided she knew enough and took off, screaming down the mountain until she collided with an enormous German guy. Thank
God he was enormous and she was a 60 lb. 8 year old or she'd have creamed him.
Larry's feeling all sentimental and stress-hungover. I'm still fit to be tied. I WANT her to have some fear, damnit! Since the day she was born she's been like some Flying Wallenda, trying to make me insane and prematurely gray.
Archi, what's your address? I'm sending her to come live with you.
God he was enormous and she was a 60 lb. 8 year old or she'd have creamed him.
Larry's feeling all sentimental and stress-hungover. I'm still fit to be tied. I WANT her to have some fear, damnit! Since the day she was born she's been like some Flying Wallenda, trying to make me insane and prematurely gray.
Archi, what's your address? I'm sending her to come live with you.
donbarzini
Well-Known Member
Originally posted by vraiblonde
[ I WANT her to have some fear, damnit!
I think that, despite what she says, the first time she drives that
stretch of road(which, according to Larry should be 2015)
those knuckles will be whiter than David Dukes in Harlem.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
The morning after...
I am concerned now as to whether or not she understands that it was pilot error and not just some 'act of God'.
The accident, as we've pieced it all together, looks worse than it was. The truck clipped the rear of the Jeep, barely (the guy told me he almost missed her. So, it was a 'racking' across the width of the back, tearing up fiberglass, exploding the rear window, ripping off the lights and trim. No frame damage.
The scary part is that what was almost a miss could have just as easily been a T bone and killed her.
That part, she understands. She was scared bad and now, I hope, has a little more sense of vulnerability.
I am concerned now as to whether or not she understands that it was pilot error and not just some 'act of God'.
The accident, as we've pieced it all together, looks worse than it was. The truck clipped the rear of the Jeep, barely (the guy told me he almost missed her. So, it was a 'racking' across the width of the back, tearing up fiberglass, exploding the rear window, ripping off the lights and trim. No frame damage.
The scary part is that what was almost a miss could have just as easily been a T bone and killed her.
That part, she understands. She was scared bad and now, I hope, has a little more sense of vulnerability.
Pete
Repete
Re: The morning after...
Boy is only 7 and we have already had several conversations about the definition of the word "accident". I wanted boy to know that "It was an accident" is not a free pass on bonehead choices. An accident happens when you have eliminated all percieved risks and something happens that is totally beyond your control. An "incident" is when you don't think things through and take unnecessary risks, or fail to see clearly present risks and something that was bound to happens based on the circumstanses happens.
Desdemona
New Member
This is probably way out there, but think of it this way . . .
maybe that side trip to Starbucks caused a timing thing that made her miss a bigger, more devasting accident that she would have otherwise encountered had she gone straight to where she was supposed to.
One time hubby and I were coming back from a weekend vacation, trying to see what kind of good time we could make. All was going well until we got behind a tractor w/ haywagon. Followed that thing for a long way. As soon as he turned off, we got behind a blue hair with no chance of passing. We followed her until we came upon the scene of an accident - big dually pickup hauling a trailer and a samurai-type suv. However what really caught our attention was the coroner's vehicle sitting on the side of the road.
We were thankful for the tractor and blue hair alike for slowing us down that day. We both took it as a message without the need for discussion.
I know you are thankful your daughter is ok. Chock it up to a learning experience, and hope that she takes something positive away from it.
maybe that side trip to Starbucks caused a timing thing that made her miss a bigger, more devasting accident that she would have otherwise encountered had she gone straight to where she was supposed to.
One time hubby and I were coming back from a weekend vacation, trying to see what kind of good time we could make. All was going well until we got behind a tractor w/ haywagon. Followed that thing for a long way. As soon as he turned off, we got behind a blue hair with no chance of passing. We followed her until we came upon the scene of an accident - big dually pickup hauling a trailer and a samurai-type suv. However what really caught our attention was the coroner's vehicle sitting on the side of the road.
We were thankful for the tractor and blue hair alike for slowing us down that day. We both took it as a message without the need for discussion.
I know you are thankful your daughter is ok. Chock it up to a learning experience, and hope that she takes something positive away from it.