Ever let your teen who was raised in the suburbs drive to the city?
[i][c=BF0080]My dad said, “you learned to drive that big truck with your permit alone here, she’ll be fine.” Me: “She’ll freak once she’s on 95, even with me.”
Daughter trying to merge on 95 freaked out and at a complete stop:
Me: (Screams) Get aggressive!!
Her: (After finally getting aggressive and on the road) “Why are these people so mean?”
Then she waves everyone to get in front of her on another highway so they don’t feel like she did till she saw this guy(right not in a lane) later 😂 “What’s wrong with these people today?!”
My poor child. I said I’m sorry I yelled at you before, but I didn’t think you would’ve moved. She agreed and said she doesn’t ever wanna drive to the Bronx again 🤣 She will with me though till she’s comfortable enough to do it on her own. [/c][/i]
I understand her. I’ve been driving for a few years now and I still wonder why are people so mean 😭. I think merging is one of the most difficult things for people who are learning how to drive, and that she could do it without crashing says she will be a good driver, have patience with her 💜
@deadteddy [i][c=BF0080]Awh 🥺 I def understand. I just know her and if I didn’t push her to go, she wouldn’t had. That was the only time I yelled, but not outta no patience, I didn’t want us to get hit. They fly in that spot. [/c][/i]
@MellyMel22 [quote]That was the only time I yelled, but not outta no patience, I didn’t want us to get hit. [/quote] In that situation it was definitely the right thing to do.
@deadteddy [i][c=BF0080]That highway in that area is bad. She thought I was exaggerating warning her and asking if she was sure she wanted to drive there. [/c][/i]
Slightly off subject but speaking of stopping on the highway, why is it that some cities are putting these damn stop lights at the end of the on-ramp just before it hits the highway?
I thought that was just in Colorado springs but they're doing it in my city too
@MellyMel22 I mean if somebody has a fast car they can get 0 to 60 in just a few seconds then it wouldn't be a problem but otherwise all it does is present a different type of safety hazard.
It is not solving any problems, just rearranging them.
We can never wait until we are old enough to drive but then we get out on the road behind the wheel and find out what it's really like.
I went to Vegas this year. When going to the Grand Canyon the entry to the high way was so freaking short and in a rented unknown car that was not comfortable. 😅
@MellyMel22 It ended well though. The road became clearly visible from the reflected lights from my headlights. It was quite smart of them to create the road like that.
In our Arabic culture we say "the mother is an academy" i as a father can't teach my kids certain things, i tend to go into Thanos mood and get fantasies of breaking necks lol. On the other hand, it's a peice of cake for my wife 🙈
@inaccessible [i][c=BF0080]My dad taught me in parking lots at 11! Then told me when I had my permit, if you can master parking this thing everywhere I tell you to(in the Bronx) then you can take it weekends. He forgets she learned in the suburbs b/c that’s where she was raised.. I taught my brother when I was 17 b/c my mom was scaring him the entire time 😂 [/c][/i]
@inaccessible [i][c=BF0080]That he did and my mom didn’t 😂 She sat in the back the day I told her to have him pull over and let me teach him b/c all she did was yell thinking he was gonna crash nonstop 😂[/c][/i]
i was driving to the big city on a permit which was illegal @ that time because mom didnt like driving in the big city & never had an issue but each person is different so if i had kids it would depend on each kids abilities
@pdockal [i][c=BF0080]I agree! This was her first time driving there. I planned on having her do it with her permit b/c I figured if she could drive in the city, she can anywhere and wouldn’t fear anywhere. Then I thought it wasn’t worth the chance of traumatizing her before she had a license 😂
It was illegal for me then with a permit too, but as a teen all I thought was I can drive by myself 😂[/c][/i]
it was illegal w/ a permit not issued by the big city I was in .... the suburb kids had to wait for their liscence but ............ now i avoid it because its gotten out of hand
@Jenny1234 [i][c=BF0080]I had my son’s do that. My daughter had plenty of highway practice with me and my dad. The highway we were on isn’t like the highways here. My mom is nervous on that highway and she’s been driving before I was born. It’s worse in some areas. [/c][/i]
@thisguy20 [i][c=BF0080]It was a Friday, late afternoon. I’ve never seen any of 95 not busy when I’m on it. Though I usually take just the hutch back at night. It’s going there which is usually daylight that I end up on 95. [/c][/i]
@DearAmbellina2113 I hated driving right after learning, still hate it now i'm 51. but maybe it's mostly the other drivers attitude that made me hate being on the road
@MellyMel22 She will improve. Real fun would be something like taking the 270 bypass around St Louis on a dark rainy evening during rush hour traffic like I recently got to enjoy on a recent road trip.
@MrSmooTh [i][c=BF0080]I think both. P.S. 83 Donald Hertz. K-8. My grade did the very first 7th and 8th grade there after our parents protested to not force us to the JH(127 in castle hill) b/c it was so bad. There were a lot of stabbings and kids caught with guns back then there. [/c][/i]
