Cars are a nice way for kids and dads to bond, great thing, I recall when I taught my kid the finer points of driving behind the wheel of the family Ford Excursion. Let the bonding begin, I thought, if she could figure out how to drive that leviathan, the dreadnaught of the roadways, she could drive anything!
She did not want to drive the car around town, din't want to be seen by any friends or schoolmates, LOL. She made quite a spectacle of herself, hopping curbs, lots of close calls, but all under my watchful eye, (you really cant feel those tall curbs when you run over em) nearly took out a bus stop platform too. Then we went down to her school a few days later, and she drove the parking lot for an hour, everyone got to see her driving. So, she learned a lesson in humility and driving an uncool car in plain view of her piers. She behaved, graduated, learned to drive somemore, no hurry I thought, when she objected, I reminded her of the dead friends of hers who were in a hurry to drive. So she cooled it for awhile.
Anyhow, about a year later, got her a little v6 pony mustang with a coolness package, since she went off to college and needed a car, and she was doing well with the grades, and getting with the program and all. Then I got rid of the excursion.. got a Viper!
