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Has car wrecking become a sport for teens? 
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Hang in there and keep your chin up.
It's all temporary and will work itself out. Doesn't make it any easier, I know.
edit - I would figure out "why" she is wrecking cars? Is she that bad of a driver, or is there something else at play.
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Slacker007 wrote: It's all temporary and will work itself out
Yes, with children the first sixteen years are the worst...
[edit]Except in Spain, where the first eighteen years are the worst, apparently[/edit]
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modified 8-Dec-14 5:37am.
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Quote: the first sixteen years are the worst
So far, I have found the first twenty-six years are the worst.
Note: My son is twenty-six tomorrow!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah - but at 16 you can throw them out and change the locks... 
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No you can't. There is the Missus to reckon with... 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Not in Spain... where this won't happen till the 18 by law...
I don't have any children but this kind of posts scare a lot
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Original message fixed! 
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35 (my daughter)!
I'm hoping that things will look up soon.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I'd disagree - I'd much rather change diapers than deal with drivers. Then they get bigger, choose mates and there's that much more drama... I dream of having a http://www.myoceanis.com/[^]
when it all hits the fan, I just cast off and I am so elephanting out of there.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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why? Hell, she's 19, knows everything and thinks she's a F-1 driver. And she wrecked the minivan  .
Seriously, it's just a new driver thing...
Phase 1: super careful, slow, paranoid
Phase 2: hey I can do this! It's not so hard
Phase 3: why are you so upset dad? it wasn't my fault
Phase 4: crap, I wrecked *my* car, this so sucks.
Phase 5: okay, I'm coming up on an intersection that collects idiots,
I better slow down...
I tore up cars too, so I see the traits. I am so much like my dad now.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I can identify myself in those phases. My first car also looked like it was in a few accidents before and after my first winter it got a bit worse. There was just one crash and nothing serious - a few extra scratches, but at that time I got to phase 4. Except the car was really mine. Been very careful since and hope I don't get too confident with the car again. Got a new one now, my girlfriend inherited one from her grandpa but as before we made it so that we are both owners of the car. He really looked after it, I'm kind of afraid of driving it.
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My favourite fridge magnet: Get yourself a teenager while they still know everything.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Every human looks itself superior driver, smarter, better to others until it the Dunning-Kroger effect
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Dunning-Kruger effect[^] actually.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Install air bags outside of your daughter's car. Sit back, relax and enjoy the smashing!
BTW, you might lose all your hard earned money depending on smash frequency.
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charlieg wrote: my wife nagging the elephanting out of me about here smashing up cars
Wait what? She's nagging YOU for your kid wrecking a car? I wouldn't let that slide man. Lay down the law.
Jeremy Falcon
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Well, it's more like fretting. Besides after 36 years with her, I just drink more
Lay down the law? Are you married? 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Lay down the law? Are you married?
No, I never would be to a woman that did that to me. It's disrespectful.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon
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sigh  Adjuster came out today to add up the damage. Mind you, she just whacked a fender, and in this case, not that badly. Before he had even opened the hood - he was over $5,000.
I just don't wreck cars. I think the last time I had something in the body shop was when yet another daughter bent our Toyota 4-runner. Just triple elephants. So, the Mrs. says, hey, we can get another car with the settlement.. Right, I know this is going to cost me another 5 grand... I just know.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
modified 7-Dec-14 11:12am.
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I'm hoping that Rida ate Ronald McDonald...
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Revised in your horror honor, Sir.
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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