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Kids and driving
« on: February 12, 2008, 09:55:52 PM »
One of my sons just turned 16 and is hot to start learning.  It makes me nervous. Yesterday two kids from the local high school that he attends one class at died in the mall parking lot racing another is in critical condition. All this makes me very nervous on top of my normal nervousness anybody else have to deal with this or going to soon
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 09:59:47 PM »
I'm 24 and haven't bothered :)
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 10:03:27 PM »
I didn't get mine till I was 18.  Where I am it's hard to get a job without one even if it doesn't involve driving they look at as a requirement.  My nephew is 29 and doesn't have one no job either
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2008, 10:40:28 PM »
In Wyoming children as young as 14 can get a special driver's license that lets them go from home to school and back, and other places with a licensed driver.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2008, 10:42:58 PM »
Took me until I was 36(?) to get mine.

But, I drove illegally a few times, before.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2008, 11:56:35 PM »
I been driving since I was 15 but didn't get my license till I was almost 17. I only drove during the first quarter of the school year in driver's ed and didn't drive again because I didn't have a license. My parents felt 15 was too young to drive but they let me take driver's ed so I could learn the rules of driving and the responsibility. Then when I turned 16, wanted to get my driver's license. Took me the whole school year because my parents could only take me to the DMV for the written test and driving when they could. Took me three times to pass the written and five times to pass the driving. When I was 15, it only took me one try to pass but didn't pass the written but my parents never took me to the DMV to take the written test again. Because it was over six months, I had to do the driving again but I had to past the written test first to do it.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2008, 12:26:52 AM »
I got my license when I was 17.  It's still a few years away for my daughter, thank goodness.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2008, 12:28:46 AM »
At 16, a license meant everything to me.  When I got older, I learned what a crock of shit getting a license I didn't need was.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2008, 03:36:55 AM »
I can't drive yet
I'm scared of running over a cat or a kid or something
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2008, 03:43:23 AM »
It's funny. When I went for my
license, I barely passed the eye
exam (old perscription - had to
close one eye), managed the written
fine, but had I been young, there is
NO way they would have let me through the
driving part. Luckily, the guy felt sorry for
me, and let me do the parallel parking
again. Plus, in NJ, the test isn't actually
on the road, it's in a special compound.

I have a few months to practice, before
I'll need to get a new one, if I get an AZ one.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2008, 03:44:16 AM »
I am good at driving games and dodgems
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2008, 03:46:44 AM »
I'm good at driving inebriated.
Not too bad, when there are
moving targets involved.

But, I suck at avoiding stationary things.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2008, 03:48:00 AM »
So if someone was standing in the middle of the road, you would hit them?
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2008, 03:54:57 AM »
That's tricky. I was shocked that I avoided a deer,
without running off the road, but it lept in front of
me (WTF? lept isn't a word?). NJ traffic can be pretty
nerve wracking too.

But, if someone's standing still, they might just be in danger.
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Re: Kids and driving
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2008, 03:55:50 AM »
The dear leaped in front of you, according to firefucks
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