A whole new kind of retarded
As all of us know one of the biggest dangers on the road are idiots on their cell phones, too wrapped up in conversation (or even worse texting while driving - BEWARE VERY GRAPHIC) to pay attention to where they are pointing their 3 tons of steel. We even have to fear the occasional person who feels driving is such a mundane task that they need to spruce it up by reading while driving.
But recently I have noticed there are a new set of people who suffer from extreme rectal cranial inversion. I love to sound older than I am by saying 'You damn kids with your rock music...", but has anyone seen the metal head kids who drum while driving? I caught my room mate doing this.
He attemps driving (manual not auto), while blaring his death metal (he's in his own death metal band), steering with his knee while both his hands are flailing around the passenger compartment pretend drumming, head banging to the music, barely ever looking at the road. For the record, this is the guy who wonders how his luck is so bad that everything seems to just "jump" out infront of his car (like the time he hit a detour sign, or the several deer he has hit to this point in his life)
But it's not just my room mate, I'm starting to see these numb skulls everywhere, and even worse, some of them are actually holding drum sticks while driving! If it is possible to be behind the wheel of a car and pay even less attention to driving, I can't Imagine.
In my own damned family
Got a call last night around 12:30 from the local police. Seems the boy (my stepson) had a problem with people passing him, and when they'd try to do it he'd swerve into the lane to block them. Rocket surgeon that he is, he never considered that the car he was blocking might have a light bar. Which it did. Which it used.
He was left unsupervised with his mother this morning. I'm curious to see if he's in one piece when I get home. I don't think my wife knows where to find sacks of lime, which might be the only thing saving the boy. Then again, she might be willing to hunt around for it like I did.
That's funny. (-; I had a
That's funny. (-; I had a jerk riding my a$$ tight one night in a time long past, 2 in the morning, lots of room to pass . . just pissed me off so I locked up the brakes . . opps. Metro dade. (-; He was in the process of running my tags already. Lol No ticket that night, had him laughing by the end of it . .but it ranks up there with those dumb shit moves never to be repeated. lol If his mom don't kill him, he wont forget this one. LoL
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Won't forget
is different from "won't do." This boy ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer. There was an open bottle of alcohol in the car too, which he's supposed to know better than to do (as in I've warned him specifically about it in the past). Fortunately he passed the field sobriety test though, so no time in lockup. Officer could have taken him in on the general douchebaggery too (felonious assault was the specific charge), but decided not to press that one after the tone of my wife's voice indicated that jail would be letting the kid off light.
I'm leaning towards dropping him off at the Army recruiting office. Needs something to knock some sense into his head.
Yep, took about two years for
Yep, took about two years for the "seriousness" of it to settle in, but the time in the service had a lot to do with me keeping my life on track.
Have faith, a lot of it is just age sadly. My two youngest kids did great in high school. Top of class, scholarships in hand . . my Son just finished his bachelor's degree and is heading for his masters . .my daughter, top 3% in high school? Still hooked up with a loser she met right after she graduated, pissed away her scholarship, no collage, about to have a kid . . and hardly a month goes by now she does not call and say to me, "dad, I always thought you were just trying to over dramatize stuff, but to day "xyz" happened, and you were right again". LoL
I keep telling her I was at one time as young, dumb and as hard headed as her. LoL keep the faith, but be sure to let him stub his toes good and hard a few times along the way. That's how us hard headed folks learn. (-; They are strong willed kids, slow learners sometimes, but in time they figure it out with any luck. And when they do that hard headed thing will keep them solid in the future. Right now, he just figures he is indestructible is all. Lol Only he can truly find his mortality with his own experience. All you can do is be a good 'dad", and be around with an open ear and an occasional word of wisdom when the boy is ready for it. That's our job as care givers, keeping the faith, knowing when to reach out and catch them, and knowing when to watch them fall. (-; No short cuts in life, is there? (-;
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Excellent Post Elwood
...and to add my two cents, I had plenty of opportunities and blew them via drug addiction and other bad choices. So here I am in my mid-forties and, after three years of personal disaster, Lady Luck (and hard work) is smiling on me again.
Point being, it's never too late, and certainly too early to tell--when they are that young... :)
Yea . .my kids are saints
Yea . .my kids are saints next to me. My poor mom over the years. She has seen me shot, stabbed a few times, car crashes, broken bones, beatings I was on the losing end of . . off to places in the world when a mother does not want to see her son there . . (-;
Yea . .my kids are not perfect, but they are pretty good all things considered. (-; My daughter tells me I was a pretty good dad. So I must have gotten it together pretty well and learned something from my own stupid adventures. (-; Always have faith in folks, even when that "faith" means letting go and having faith they will survive and bounce back from the situation.
Anyway . .not sure if we are side tracking the thread . .or just admitting we belong IN the thread as fellow retards! loL
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Wow, those texting while
Wow, those texting while driving consequences pics are VERY graphic! Maybe more people in the States (looked like that wreck took place in Europe) should see them (particularly that lady reading a book while driving!).
Yeah it's scarey...
And with a lot of distracted drivers, we're lucky if they are paying attention to the road every 3rd or 4th second they are behind the wheel.
Would you believe I missed
Would you believe I missed that? Cool beans. (-;
Seriously . . seen a few like that over the years. The human body does not hold up well against steel.
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So... Cool Beans?
Years ago, right after
Years ago, right after college, a friend bought himself a used 911. He'd ride down the highway in his Porsche reading Penthouse. Wonder whatever happened to him? Oh yeah, he's a doctor.