[Spridgets] summer school cars

[Larry Daniels]

I'm with Ron on this one.  I don't have any kids, but, if I did, the most 
important thing that I think I could give them is to learn how to drive 
before letting them out there.  I don't know what it is like today, but in 
my day, nearly 40 years ago, driver's ed was a complete joke.

One of my best friends who is a professor/author/lecturer type of egghead 
who doesn't know a spark plug from a radiator cap, after talking for hours 
on end with me, decided his two boys had to graduate from Skippy's street 
course.  He bought them cars and paid for their education, but that 
education was the best thing he could have done for them.

By the way, his kids are as ignorant about cars as he was, but at least they 
now know how to drive them.  They are also two of the most responsible, 
decent kids any parent could hope for.  They just aren't car guys.  So what. 
At least they aren't the juvenile delinquent kid that used to delight in 
getting the cops to chase them like I was.  Thank God they never caught me. 
What an idiot I was.


LAD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Soave" <soavero at yahoo.com>
To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] summer school cars


--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Weslake1330 at aol.com <Weslake1330 at aol.com> wrote:
> However, one thing I have decided is that they will pay for
> all of their  own
> driving lessons themselves.

Not me. Mine are both going to Skip Barber's street class on me. They don't 
get keys until they do, period.

http://www.skipbarber.com/driving_school/mazda/new_driver.aspx

By all accounts, there is no better way to prepare them for what's out 
there.

Ron
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