My youngest daughter had her first (and hopefully only) incident while driving. Luckily, we were very close to home.
The driveway
She went to pull out of the driveway and didn't quite make it like she was supposed to so the mailbox did a slide by down the side of the truck
It put a nice white stripe (on a blue truck) down the side almost the length of the bed.
She kept apologizing and saying she was never going to drive again but we both know that was just runoff of the mouth.
In the end, the paint came off but there is a faint scratch all the way down the side of the truck but it's better than the glowing white stripe that was there and at least it was just a mailbox and she did leave the mailbox standing so all was not lost
If that's all she ever does while driving then she's already done better than I have
Have a great weekend, Sybil
Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)
I totalled my first car only 2 weeks after getting my license.
Have a great weekend!
Yes, it could've been much worse so we just laugh the mailbox thing off as to live and learn, a little on the hard way but a lesson learned.
I feel your pain on the mailbox and property destruction. I've lost count of how many mailboxes we've had to put up in the past 16 years. If it's not some group of destructive kids thinking that bashing mailboxes is funny then it's someone that can't stay on the road and it's always OUR mailbox that takes the beating. Not to mention that Hubby has knocked it down a few times due to trying to get dumptrucks in and out of our driveway
I lost my license for 6 months after only 2 months of having them at 16 so if the only thing my daughter does is scrape a mailbox then I'll be happy
Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)
GOOD NEWS...since having my license (since '77)...I've never done it again! In fact, I'm still a "safe driver" some 30 plus years later...
Hey, I'm not saying I've been perfect...just never was caught doing anything really stoooopid!
But yeh....the mailbox trick...been there, done that...totally flattened ours!
It's a rite of passage, isn't it!???
I wish I could say that a mailbox is the ONLY thing I've demolished
As far as rite of passage..........yep.......she sure got hers
With in 3 months both my daughter's totaled a car they had their license's for about 6 months each. My oldest daughter was scared to drive so they both got their license's about the same time. Thank goodness they both weren't hurt, they scared me good.
Night Sparrow
Thank goodness your girls weren't hurt. Hopefully the incident with the mailbox will be the ONLY incident when it comes to driving that I'll have to worry about with my kids but I know that's not the end of it.