Spotted, your teenage son

[Anonymous]

This increases my desire to have my son take more than one driving class. He's 14 and the time to teach is coming faster than I'd like. Once he gets his license, a refresher course every 12 months for a couple of years might be helpful.

I'd do this for a girl, too, but I only have a boy. It's scary to me to put a kid out there in this crazy traffic with texting, etc. going on on the time. I was at a stop light the other day next to a woman driving a huge SUV, painting her fingernails at the red light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not my teenage son. Wrong car, state and sport.

Hey why don't all of us post if it ISN'T our son.

WTF?

Well I just thought I'd let you all know that I don't even HAVE a teenage son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not my teenage son. Wrong car, state and sport.

Hey why don't all of us post if it ISN'T our son.

WTF?

Just answering the OPs question. And I get tired of the posts on here who always assume the worst of teenage boys. All your darling little 5 year old boys will be teenage boys some day. And you know what? They are not all bad drivers or drug users or child molesters or whatever else people here seem to think about teenage boys.

I have a teenage girl and am sometimes very saddened and disappointed by teenage boys.

[Anonymous]

This is the OP. If the driver had been a female of the same age range as the driver I saw, the title would have been, "Spotted, your teenage daughter." This isn't a boy or girl issue, it is a safety issue. I suppose I could have posted, "Spotted, your teenager," my bad.

My husband was driving a big moving van and the tailgater was so close to him that my husband could not see him for much of the drive. My husband asked me if I had noticed the tailgater after we reached our destination and I told him I had and that it was really bad. I described when and where the tailgater turned off and my husband had no idea. My husband was eyeing the car in the side mirrors and when he looked back and one point and didn't see the car, he assumed that the car turned off. In fact, the car was so close to the back of the truck, my husband couldn't see it.

Frankly, in an accident, my husband would likely have been fine. He was in a big moving van. The young man in the civic would have been creamed. If I were this boy's parent, I would want to know if he were taking his life in his hands AND risking the lives of other drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Just answering the OPs question. And I get tired of the posts on here who always assume the worst of teenage boys. All your darling little 5 year old boys will be teenage boys some day. And you know what? They are not all bad drivers or drug users or child molesters or whatever else people here seem to think about teenage boys.

Amen. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I have a teenage girl and am sometimes very saddened and disappointed by teenage boys.

Well, sure. Teens can be dicks. The girls, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP. If the driver had been a female of the same age range as the driver I saw, the title would have been, "Spotted, your teenage daughter." This isn't a boy or girl issue, it is a safety issue. I suppose I could have posted, "Spotted, your teenager," my bad.

My husband was driving a big moving van and the tailgater was so close to him that my husband could not see him for much of the drive. My husband asked me if I had noticed the tailgater after we reached our destination and I told him I had and that it was really bad. I described when and where the tailgater turned off and my husband had no idea. My husband was eyeing the car in the side mirrors and when he looked back and one point and didn't see the car, he assumed that the car turned off. In fact, the car was so close to the back of the truck, my husband couldn't see it.

Frankly, in an accident, my husband would likely have been fine. He was in a big moving van. The young man in the civic would have been creamed. If I were this boy's parent, I would want to know if he were taking his life in his hands AND risking the lives of other drivers.

Surely not since you were going how fast only?

[Anonymous]

I honestly don't get why peopel are all up in arms about OP's post. She's not saying that all teenage boys are bad drivers or irresponsible or molesters. She is saying that THIS ONE teenage boy was driving like an asshole and he's going to get himself killed. That's it. I think she's posting this as a service to that one kid's parents, who can sit down with him and say "hey, we heard you were driving like an asshole, you're going to get yourself killed, we need to talk."

I have to say, I would love to know that information if it were my son. You can't watch them all the time, all you can do is hope for the best. Sometimes they don't behave (or drive) the way you'd like. I'd want to know.
Thanks, OP. It really does take a village!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, not peopel - *people*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This increases my desire to have my son take more than one driving class. He's 14 and the time to teach is coming faster than I'd like. Once he gets his license, a refresher course every 12 months for a couple of years might be helpful.

I'd do this for a girl, too, but I only have a boy. It's scary to me to put a kid out there in this crazy traffic with texting, etc. going on on the time. I was at a stop light the other day next to a woman driving a huge SUV, painting her fingernails at the red light.

At least she was doing it at the red light....I've seen people reading on the beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not my teenage son. Wrong car, state and sport.

Hey why don't all of us post if it ISN'T our son.

WTF?

Just answering the OPs question. And I get tired of the posts on here who always assume the worst of teenage boys. All your darling little 5 year old boys will be teenage boys some day. And you know what? They are not all bad drivers or drug users or child molesters or whatever else people here seem to think about teenage boys.

I have a teenage girl and am sometimes very saddened and disappointed by teenage boys.

I have a preteen girl and am sometimes very saddened, disappointed and shocked by teenage girls. And their mothers.

[Anonymous]

Such a pointless post... If you were that concerned, tell hubby to pull over, and call the cops. Posting on here won't do a thing. It's over with OP. I hate people who just drag incidents on and on.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's pointless. There's only a tiny chance that the actual teen driver will be recognized by someone, but it does remind us to help our own kids be as responsible and safe drivers as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly don't get why peopel are all up in arms about OP's post. She's not saying that all teenage boys are bad drivers or irresponsible or molesters. She is saying that THIS ONE teenage boy was driving like an asshole and he's going to get himself killed. That's it. I think she's posting this as a service to that one kid's parents, who can sit down with him and say "hey, we heard you were driving like an asshole, you're going to get yourself killed, we need to talk."

I have to say, I would love to know that information if it were my son. You can't watch them all the time, all you can do is hope for the best. Sometimes they don't behave (or drive) the way you'd like. I'd want to know.
Thanks, OP. It really does take a village!

I think because the odds of the mother of this particular kid being on DCUM is extremely low. So it comes off as just complaining about teenage drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly don't get why peopel are all up in arms about OP's post. She's not saying that all teenage boys are bad drivers or irresponsible or molesters. She is saying that THIS ONE teenage boy was driving like an asshole and he's going to get himself killed. That's it. I think she's posting this as a service to that one kid's parents, who can sit down with him and say "hey, we heard you were driving like an asshole, you're going to get yourself killed, we need to talk."

I have to say, I would love to know that information if it were my son. You can't watch them all the time, all you can do is hope for the best. Sometimes they don't behave (or drive) the way you'd like. I'd want to know.
Thanks, OP. It really does take a village!

I think because the odds of the mother of this particular kid being on DCUM is extremely low. So it comes off as just complaining about teenage drivers.

I think we should all be worried about teen drivers. As a group, they are the most dangerous drivers on the road.