My teenager passed his written driving test today and walked out in proud receipt of three stapled together pieces of paper which say he can start practicing to drive. Through a very strange set of coincidences, I just sent this teenager off with a complete stranger in a powder blue mini cooper with decals ablaze. "Driversed.com" "Your complete driver training source" etc. etc.
Top Reasons to be Concerned:
1. My son is learning to drive in one of the smallest and easiest to crush vehicles on the road.
2. He is learning to drive with the handicap of not being able to see the action ahead for the ginormous SUV sure to be in front of him at all times.
3. I found the driving instructor on the INTERNET for god's sake.
4. The car is POWDER BLUE! What will his hockey pals say?
5. Until we adopted little K., this was my BABY! *teeny tears welling up*
6. Big K says, after his successful test results, "Do I HAVE to wait for the lesson to start? I want to practice first so I can impress the teacher." uh huh.
7. The 6 months countdown to the actual drivers test has officially started.
8. The car is POWDER BLUE! No one drives a powder blue car! Everyone will laugh at him!
9. The driving instructor answered his phone "Hello." Instead of "Your best Driving School ever, how can I help you?" or better yet, some secretary-like person saying, "Hello, Best Damn Driving School Ever, there are 14 eager callers ahead of you, will you please hold?"
10. This is my baby out there in a POWDER BLUE Mini, risking his life in the quest of this driver's license, unable to see anything, and getting older every day and every day is one day closer to when he dresses up and picks up his date for the prom, and then graduates and then goes off to college and then...
oh shut up.
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- Used to be an RN - now an IT geek (clinical applications manager and "EHR Coordinator" to be more specific) and more importantly, mom to 4, wife and foster mom. Cast of Characters: BSM - Be-a-Starz-Mom (Me) DH - husband of more than 35 years. M - oldest son (31) DDD - oldest daughter (28) BK - youngest son (22) LK - youngest daughter (9) various ensemble parts played mostly by other family members (sibs, nieces, nephews, parents, inlaws, etc.)
2 comments:
At least you know that the POWDER BLUE car will be noticed. After all, as you say, "...No one drives a powder blue car..."
I suppose there's some comfort in that, although if I saw a little powder blue car while driving my big ol' black SUV, I might want to SQUASH THE BUGGER instead of thinking, "Gee, that might be a poor little driving student in that powder blue car going 10 mph. I bet his mom's freaking out." Although all the warning decals SHOULD clue me in... He did arrive home safe and sound, with reputation intact, so maybe the rest of the lessons will go similarly well.
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