So far not bad, better than I expected. Both doors still open and the no one was hurt. JUST KIDDING! She is really doing great and more importantly, she really likes driving and wants to go out as much as she can. So glad that my daughter is not among the rising group of kids who have no interest in driving. Sadly, she loves the Rondo (easy to see, easy to drive) and hates the Fiesta (too low! hate shifting! too jumpy!) Well, there is work to do I suppose.
pinchvalve wrote: So glad that my daughter is not among the rising group of kids who have no interest in driving.
Sadly, my daughter is in that group even with the luxury of it being fully funded by me if she did drive. I try and tell her that it will close doors in her future, but she seems to get by. Even having to call an ambulance for her mother rather than being able to drive her to the ER two blocks away was not a valid argument: "I dealt with it and nobody died" was the answer.
Getting a license in Canada takes years, and since she let her learners permit lapse, she would have to start over again. I do not know if the graduated license scheme was meant to keep kids from driving, but it is a factor.
You know how most Dads want to walk their daughter down the wedding aisle? I would have much preferred to go for that first drive with her new license!
Good luck pinch!
I have always seen good luck getting aunt and uncle to train rather than Mommy and Daddy training the kid.
pinchvalve wrote: too low! hate shifting! too jumpy!
She'll come around.
In reply to NOHOME: I couldn't deal with that, it's voluntarily handicapping yourself to not have what most would consider a fundamental skill. Can you enlist her friends to stop giving her rides and force the issue?
Learn to drive of be left out of the stuff you want to do. Just a thought, it's your situation of course.
KyAllroad wrote: In reply to NOHOME: I couldn't deal with that, it's voluntarily handicapping yourself to not have what most would consider a fundamental skill. Can you enlist her friends to stop giving her rides and force the issue? Learn to drive of be left out of the stuff you want to do. Just a thought, it's your situation of course.
Kid has too many virtues to make me want to take this head-on as a cause. Scholarships to pay for school, travels the world with her own money and seems to get around as much as she wants to. Yeah...I am bragging, but a paternity test has come to mind a few times
Glad everyone is okay.
My girls tell me they are going to learn to drive in Daddy's racecar.
Okay it's street legal FX16.
But they know it's a stick and they know how it corners.
My nephew is in the same category as NoHome's daughter. He will be forced to drive because of his brothers but it's definitely being forced. I'm sure having a Toyota Avalon to drive doesn't help. I even offered to buy him something fun and he didn't really care.
Honestly, I don't understand it because it limits your mobility so much. Oh well. At least my buddies kids will be drivers. They were already told they will learn driving a stick and will be learning car control in my barracuda while autocrossing.
If 10 minutes in a wet, empty parking lot with a rear wheel drive car doesn't get a person to want to drive, I don't know what could.
N Sperlo wrote:pinchvalve wrote: too low! hate shifting! too jumpy!She'll come around.
See, my son won't even look at a slushbox. Not even an LT1 Camaro/Firebird, which I would kind of like to have an excuse to buy. 
Congrats! I'm learning how to drive, and learning to hate modern cars. As the Cutlass isn't road legal right now, I'm learning to drive in a Toyota Echo. I tried my mom's YF Sonata, but the blind spots are enormous. Thankfully, the Echo is a forgiving learner. Automatic, though
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