Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Poor Lex. Treasure your non-gray hairs while you still have them; I suspect they will soon disappear.
Question is, what is she driving?
Five words:
Drive In Daylight Hours Only
For the first year.
You’re not worried about her –its the OTHER fools out there.
The alternate is to take her on a visiting tour to an ER on a Friday night. Once should be enough.
Lex,
I don’t know how you plan on working this out, but when I got my license I was responsible for paying the increase in my parents car insurance. If I couldn’t have paid (never happened) I wouldn’t have been able to drive.
I also lost my driving privileges when I got a “D” in a class my senior year (missed a major assignment… pulled an A the next term).
Then I had two reportable accidents in about 4 months my senior year and was LPC/Bike bound until I bought a motorcycle at the end of my first year in the Army.
..on the bright side, USAA does have remarkably good customer service, so ya got that going for ya..
which is nice..
So, which is the Kat, and which is the Biscuit, again?
I must say, at my age, I find the xx humans mostly annoying, and the juvenile xx humans, well, , umm, they can be right seriously annoying, and I’m glad yours are on the other side of the continent from me, and that makes me happy, in that it’s unlikely we’ll ever meet.
You have my sympathies, Sir, but yer on yer own as far as i am concerned.
Just de-lurking to say, you have my sympathy! I was where you are not too long ago (my son is 19) and it’s rough!! Like Cpt J said, it’s the other drivers I worry about more. I actually like it now that he’s in college in NYC because I don’t have to worry about him driving!
On the bright side, getting to use the car was a great motivator for getting things done!
MajMike hast recht. The two best insurance companies in the USA, according to Clark Howard, are Amica and USAA. The Sweety insures her car with Amica. I’m not eligible, being somewhat of a slacker.
USAA is the absolute best insurance company you can get.
If you’re eligible. And you are, Lex. As are your kids, until they grow up.
Mebbe you could nudge the Kat and Biscuit toward careers as Officers because of the wonderful deals they’d get on car insurance?
Nah. Didn’t think so.
“À propos of nothing in particular” – made me laugh out loud. Hopefully, all that you imagine will stay right there in your imagination. I still can barely stand to ride with mine and I taught them… way over 30 years ago!
Dear Lex:
Good luck. I think you’re going to need it.
Heh heh. Could be worse. I imagine you have nightmares about the time of your son’s passing his driving test.
Could be lots worse. Down here, we bribe our examiners. You could have done everything wrong and still get the licence.
Could be horrendously worse. My sister had no idea how to drive an automatic transmission – you see, we all used the stick shift. My mother – same story – once drove down Fraser’s Hill with the handbrake on, and wondered what that burning rubber smell was.
OK, I’ll stop giving you scenarios now.
USAA – not just best insurance. Best Financial Services. Not the cheapest, but for my money, the best total value.
USAA members’ children are eligible for membership. ALl my kids are members.
Can you say “black box”?
“CLEAR THE SIDEWALKS!”
JTG, the Biscuit is the eldest daughter, age 17 on Saturday. God save us.
Oh I remember that not so long ago time… pulling up to a light not too long before I would take that big test and finally (FINALLY!) solo in the car, mom next to me rattling out “now since there is a car at the light you’re going to have to break earlier than normal”
Which I replied; “yes mom, I am aware of the fact that physics dictates that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.”
I think she trusted me more as a driver then. Still haven’t hit anything yet.
Happy Birthday, Biscuit! Have some butter, and jelly!
Happy Bday Biscuit!
17, you say?
My sympathy to you and yours. Almost 15 and almost 12 (with both thinking they’re 20) has me pulling out my hair these days.