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04/15/2007 08:27:10 PM · #26 |
Cheap old little car.. they don't build them like they use to so the older the better Id like to see her prang my Barina up it's tough as guts. New cars crumple very easily
Someone said down there about buying there own Yes you appreciate the things you buy and have more respect for them Im not about to do anything stupid in my car because I can't afford to buy another car, I know this.
Maybe you should make her save up and buy her own maybe she'll appreciate it more?
Message edited by author 2007-04-15 20:28:40.
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04/15/2007 08:33:13 PM · #27 |
Some car models are designed with the hood hinges in the front, precisely to prevent the possibility of this type of occurrence.
If it makes anyone feel better, this once happened to someone else I know -- a non-blonde, far from absent-minded ER doc -- sometimes it's just a mechanical failure or plain ol' bad luck. |
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04/15/2007 08:33:32 PM · #28 |
| I just realized that this is the same daughter of the women who has broken her toe 3 times in 3 years...I'm starting to wonder about this family. I think I'd be buying some life insurance if I was your hubby. lol just kidding. |
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04/15/2007 08:39:13 PM · #29 |
Sorry she's giving you gray hairs over all the accidents (you have to plame someone for the Gray, it might as well be your kids). *g*
As for me, I was in an accident just this past Thursday. I was responding to an accident where a car hit a town snowplow. 3 people in the car. I was going around a corner and had just gotten to the last little bit of it and was about to hit the straightaway when the back end came around. The speedlimit was 40, I was going 30 (too much snow), my dad was also responding to the same accident and went around the corner ahead of me doing 50mph.
Well, Once I started going in a circle I ended up flying backwards down the road until I hit some rocks and then I veered off and bounced off someone's house. My tow hitch punched a good sized hole into the side of the house, and my back window blwe out. The only other damage was some cosmetic damage to the rear hatch of my van and the guys window flower box.
Overall, it was a good wreck in that minimal damage was done and nobody got hurt. The funny thing was...while waiting for the cops to clear the first accident and come fill out a report on mine another car skidded on the same corner and took out the neighbors fence. I ended up walking back to that scene and making sure that the driver and passengers were alright (they were).
I'll be getting some ribbing from the guys on the Fire Department for a while (especially if I don't replace the window soon).
Like someone else said, as long as nobody is hurt a car is easily replaced, but people aren't (no matter how fun it can be to try to replace them). *g* |
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04/15/2007 08:41:17 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
I just realized that this is the same daughter of the women who has broken her toe 3 times in 3 years...I'm starting to wonder about this family. I think I'd be buying some life insurance if I was your hubby. lol just kidding. |
Still hurts in the wrong shoes! :P
Savanah isn't a dumb kid. An honor student since kindergarten - she just got 100% scholarship to University of Florida... Go Gators... but she definitely needs pay more attention to details. Her dad bought car's #1 and 3 and I, with insurance from car #1, bought car #2. She's stuck with this one. We're not buying another. She's off to college in a few months and she'll have to find a job there to pay for the next car.
But that said... keeping it roadworthy and safe is our responsiblitiy as parents, so the windshield will be replaced tomorrow.
I wasn't the best teen, 6 speeding tickets in 10 years. :/ But I paid everyone of them myself; that was an expensive hobby!
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04/15/2007 08:47:37 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I wasn't the best teen, 6 speeding tickets in 10 years. |
Ms Cindi of the Right Foot is Queen Clan!!!
And how many puppy dog eyes get of jail free stops in those ten years?
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04/15/2007 08:47:40 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Savanah isn't a dumb kid. An honor student since kindergarten - she just got 100% scholarship to University of Florida... Go Gators... but she definitely needs pay more attention to details. |
I can relate. My "middle child" is positively brilliant - currently studying for a combined MD/PhD and accomplished in a bunch of other areas, too (track, fencing .. I could go on). But heaven help her if she needs to navigate anywhere new! NO sense of direction. Thankfully she has a good sense of humor about her deficiency. I'd let her operate on me in a year or two when she finishes that training, but I would NEVER take directions from her ;-))) |
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04/15/2007 08:49:19 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by alfresco:
....And how many puppy dog eyes get of jail free stops in those ten years? |
Uhmmm, several. :)
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04/15/2007 08:50:34 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by MaryO:
I can relate. My "middle child" is positively brilliant - currently studying for a combined MD/PhD and accomplished in a bunch of other areas, too (track, fencing .. I could go on). But heaven help her if she needs to navigate anywhere new! NO sense of direction. Thankfully she has a good sense of humor about her deficiency. I'd let her operate on me in a year or two when she finishes that training, but I would NEVER take directions from her ;-))) |
LOL My sister is like that. She loves antiquing on the weekends, but has to take a friend because she gets lost anytime she is more than 10 miles from home. :)
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04/15/2007 08:52:54 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I wasn't the best teen, 6 speeding tickets in 10 years. :/ But I paid everyone of them myself; that was an expensive hobby! |
You call that a hobby? Jeesh and I thought the kids I knew that fired bottle rockets and roman candles at each other had crazy hobbies.
Hey Cin, since you're such a hand at Photoshop, just PS the crack from the windshield. Straighten the hood a bit... ;) Muhahahahahaaaaaa! |
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04/15/2007 08:54:18 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by idnic:
A bit ago she called to say the hood flew open while she was driving home from work, shattered the windshield and could I come get her. |
Have her call the State Patrol. ;-)
Sorry to hear. My oldest daughter is 22 and has been through about six cars. Don't ask. :/ But in fairness, my wife wrecked her first one.
Thank God I was a model teenager!  |
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04/15/2007 08:57:45 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Thank God I was a model teenager! |
HA! You sellin' somethin'? |
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04/15/2007 08:57:45 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
...Thank God I was a model teenager! |
Somehow, I'm doubting that. :P
Eug, I wish it were that easy!
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04/15/2007 08:59:48 PM · #39 |
| ...alright, well like I tell my kids, I was a good example of a BAD example! |
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04/15/2007 08:59:57 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Have her call the State Patrol. ;-) |
LOL! That's going places!
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04/15/2007 09:06:03 PM · #41 |
it is not always the kids fault, I wrote off about 7 vehicles in a 5 year span and were all due to idiots, drunks or drunken idiots running in to me...
Also given her past auto history, I also agree with that the bungee strap may not be such a great idea as sharp surfaces and engine heat can swiftly degrade the integrity of the strap, I would recommend either a short piece of chain say from Home Depot and a cheep pad lock for the cheapest solution or as most likely just the hood its self is damaged find a local cheep auto wrecker and replace the hood which for that car should be quite inexpensive.
-dave
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04/15/2007 09:08:33 PM · #42 |
Actually, I didn't mention, but while I was trying to tie her hood down so we could get the poor car home a local police officer stopped. He offered his zip-tie handcuffs to hold the hood shut and warned her to wear sunglasses while we gimped home in case any small bits of glass fell. He also teased her when I mentioned it being her 3rd car. :D
I didn't give our names ;)
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04/15/2007 09:09:07 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Thank God I was a model teenager! |
*sniff *sniff is there a barn around here, I just got an overwhelming stench of BS :P
-dave
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04/15/2007 09:26:00 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Actually, I didn't mention, but while I was trying to tie her hood down so we could get the poor car home a local police officer stopped. He offered his zip-tie handcuffs to hold the hood shut and warned her to wear sunglasses while we gimped home in case any small bits of glass fell. He also teased her when I mentioned it being her 3rd car. :D
I didn't give our names ;) |
Cindi has a new bf!!! :P
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04/15/2007 09:31:29 PM · #45 |
| Sounds like my daughter who is also on her 4th car and after driving it for a week it is in the shop! The first car she got rear ended and they totaled it, owned it for less than 24 hours, the second one she drove with out checking the oil and water, blew a head gasket and cracked the head, third one she got rear ended again and they totaled it!! Oh and she borrowed my son's car last week for a few days, brought it back with a blown head gasket!!! GRRRRRR! |
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04/15/2007 09:37:18 PM · #46 |
Ouch! Some good news; I believe Florida law is that the insurance co will replace the windshield at no cost, no matter what breaks it.
That leaves the hood, but maybe you can trade the windshield repair offer by a family member for the hood repair if the windshield is not going to cost anything.
Two of my sons totaled autos. The oldest a 65 Ford "Falcon", the mid son a Ford "Festiva", sort of a Ford version of the Chevy "Chevette" . Brad knocked on the door one night about an hour after he left for work, and when I opened the door he was standing there wet and muddy. He said " Dad, my brakes failed and my steering failed too, at the same time. My car ran off the road into a ditch." It had rained for a couple of days, and that was his first experience with driving on a slick "marl" road, which gets very slippery when it has soaked for a couple of days. When I went there in the daylight, I could see where he had slid about 60 yards, with 2 complete 360's and then over the ditch bank and into about 2 ft of mud and water. The last time that I saw that car, the local fire dept was using it for practice with the "Jaws of Life." : ) We all look back and laugh about those incidents now.
I am glad that your daughter was not hurt. What was that about checking water and oil? LOL
Message edited by author 2007-04-15 21:52:56.
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04/15/2007 10:36:02 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Some car models are designed with the hood hinges in the front, precisely to prevent the possibility of this type of occurrence.
If it makes anyone feel better, this once happened to someone else I know -- a non-blonde, far from absent-minded ER doc -- sometimes it's just a mechanical failure or plain ol' bad luck. |
Do you know how many 84-96 Vette's I have had to remove the hood to work on. Sometimes that reverse hood will bite you in the ass. |
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04/15/2007 10:53:49 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by idnic:
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Savanah isn't a dumb kid. An honor student since kindergarten - she just got 100% scholarship to University of Florida... Go Gators... but she definitely needs pay more attention to details... |
I can relate to that, my daughter is 16 and luckily is scared to death of driving. She is a very bright girl but doesn't do well with the attention to details thing, and worse yet, when she thinks she has mastered something she will pay even less attention to it. She has just recently showed a desire to learn but still worries about getting behind the wheel. I hate it cause with me being half a world away I can't have any control over what she learns or to what extent. Not saying learning from me is gonna prevent any accidents but it is that control thing...crap I just got another bunch of gray hair just THINKING about her driving. |
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04/15/2007 11:03:05 PM · #49 |
Sounds like she is bad luck
Message edited by author 2007-04-16 06:23:54.
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04/15/2007 11:06:37 PM · #50 |
While I'm glad to hear that she's ok, and sorry to hear about the third car, I have to ask. . . Did you seriously allow six of us to come down there (putting life and limb on the line) without telling us who you had on the road down there?!? Three cars? I could have been a statistic! :)
(Seriously. . . She managed to get it off the road safely. That's great driving, and I'm glad she's ok.) |
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