A thread for Rhonda & Deb to go "Off Topic"

[teri88]

Originally Posted by Bonnie's Mom

Wow...my kids definitely would not have liked that!! Here you can get your provisional dl at 15, it just has to be 6 months after you get your permit, but we didn't let our boys do that, they had to wait until they were 16. I wouldn't like it either, cause once you have one that drives, it sure helps a lot!!

My son will be 16 in December and it terrifies me! NJ is soooo over crowded on the roads and even after 30 years of driving I feel like I take my life in my hands every day! Of course, he can not wait to start. Not to mention car insurance for a 16 year old boy is about $4000 a year!

[sneri13]

OH Teri just wait.. I remember sitting on the front porch crying to my girlfriend the first night my son drove away by himself. Of course my Husband thought I was nuts for being so emotional.

[Bonnie's Mom]

Originally Posted by teri88

My son will be 16 in December and it terrifies me! NJ is soooo over crowded on the roads and even after 30 years of driving I feel like I take my life in my hands every day! Of course, he can not wait to start. Not to mention car insurance for a 16 year old boy is about $4000 a year!

Tell me about it!!!!!! I am paying for 2 young males right now...at least I won't have to pay for this one until he gets his provisional.

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by Bonnie's Mom

Wow...my kids definitely would not have liked that!! Here you can get your provisional dl at 15, it just has to be 6 months after you get your permit, but we didn't let our boys do that, they had to wait until they were 16. I wouldn't like it either, cause once you have one that drives, it sure helps a lot!!

Judging from Bonnie's expression she has another dislike to add the official likes/dislikes threads....not sure if it's getting up early, wearing a party hat, or her human brother stealing the limelight...maybe a combination of the three.

Driving in Virginia...to get a permit...15yrs 9 months. You can get a regular license at 16 but you have to had driving lessons. They used to offer them for FREE in school, but now charge for them. Or you can do the private lessons. There's usually a waiting list at the schools so many parents opt for the private lessons. A lot of kids here wait for whatever reason. Shoot, I had my mother at the dmv the second I could get mine

[mustangbee]

Originally Posted by Bonnie's Mom

Thanks. I'm pretty sure he'll have a good day that boy will tell everyone it is his b'day and he will celebrate big time (just hope he doesn't get in trouble at school ) He has a ballgame tonight, so we are taking him and a group of his friends out tomorrow night.

He is eligible for his driver's permit today, but I'm a bad Mom and I haven't gone to the DMV to get the book so he can study for the test. I'll probably go get it today and he'll take the written test next week. Then before he is eligible for his Driver's License, he will have to take Driver's Ed, which here is done by private companies. I think the Tech college here has a class, but there is such a waiting list, we just do the private lessons! Oh Lord...can't believe he will be driving....watch out world

Check your online DMV. They have practice tests here on line, you might have them too When our oldest son turned 15, I gave him the DMV book and plastic baby keys with his gifts, I told him you pass, I'll turn the keys into some you can use. On his 16th, he woke up to a surpise in the driveway, a day I will never forget, my baby becoming a young man

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by mustangbee

Check your online DMV. They have practice tests here on line, you might have them too When our oldest son turned 15, I gave him the DMV book and plastic baby keys with his gifts, I told him you pass, I'll turn the keys into some you can use. On his 16th, he woke up to a surpise in the driveway, a day I will never forget, my baby becoming a young man

Gina, will you adopt me??? I promise to be good I think the stork delivered some of us to the wrong houses

[rrosenberry]

MAN! I have been overwhelmed with my real job, I need my YT time, for Petes sake! Enough of this work thing, don't they know?

[rrosenberry]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

Gina, will you adopt me??? I promise to be good I think the stork delivered some of us to the wrong houses

No kidding! I remember telling my mom on my 16th BD, where is it? where is my car with a big red bow? She laughed!
Instead... I had to BUY a Jeep Comanche P/up off of my dad for 900.00! Yeah... teaching me responsibility.... whatever!

[mustangbee]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

Gina, will you adopt me??? I promise to be good I think the stork delivered some of us to the wrong houses

LOL, Oh Deb I'm so sorry, I didn't see you at the adoption center when we adopted three of our kids. hmmmmm Promise to be good???? LOL
This is a post we have to save!

[teri88]

Originally Posted by rrosenberry

MAN! I have been overwhelmed with my real job, I need my YT time, for Petes sake! Enough of this work thing, don't they know?

hmmm, I thought YT was your REAL job, and that other place is just a hobby.

[Bonnie's Mom]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

Shoot, I had my mother at the dmv the second I could get mine

Me and you both!!! We actually had a hurricane hit on my 16th b'day (Hurricane Elouise not sure if that is how you spell it but it is how you pronounce it!)so everything in town was closed. 2 days later I was driving my Dad crazy to take me down there so he did. Turns out he knew the person giving the driving tests and she told me that she would do it just for me, so I drove around the block and she said, "Go back...you passed" I couldn't believe, all those months of practicing how to parallel park, and all I had to do was drive around the block I was so happy!! My dad taught me how to drive by myself at 8 years old in the stadium parking lot, so I was more than ready to get out on the streets after 8 yrs of parking lots!!!

Have you ever heard Alan Jackson's song "Daddy let me drive" I love it it reminds me of my Dad!!

[mustangbee]

LOL!!!
Look how many posts are on this thread!
On Saturday it will be a one month old thread!
That's a lot of laughing!!!!!
Way too funny!

[rrosenberry]

Originally Posted by mustangbee

LOL!!!
Look how many posts are on this thread!
On Saturday it will be a one month old thread!
That's a lot of laughing!!!!!
Way too funny!

What's funnier is how many times it's been viewed... Lookey Loo's curious, but not quite ready to join in.... Or maybe afraid to..

[teri88]

Originally Posted by Bonnie's Mom

My dad taught me how to drive by myself at 8 years old in the stadium parking lot, so I was more than ready to get out on the streets after 8 yrs of parking lots!!!

Have you ever heard Alan Jackson's song "Daddy let me drive" I love it it reminds me of my Dad!!

Wow! Reminds me of my dad! We used to wait at the end of our really long driveway for him to get home from work. Then he'd sit one of us on his lap and let us drive up to the garage.
Hey, what happened to the musical note smilies? Doesn't admin like the way we sing?

[bchgirl]

Parallel parking!!! Remember it well. When we were in driver's ed at school...part of your test was parallel parking between traffic cones...no knocking down the traffic cones Any way the driver's ed cars had two brakes...driver's side and passenger side...(you know, in case the teacher HAD to stop some stupid maneuverer ya pulled on the street.) During the parallel test, they'd have two students in a vehicle and the teacher would be outside grading your parking job. My buddy in the passenger side worked the brake while I parallel parked. Can you say instant A. Thanks Jon

I never learned to parallel park until we lived in a historic district here....no driveways....I became a parallel parking pro.