Your son scares me. Forgetting shoes? Reaching down for a backpack (hey it's in the footwell it's not going anywhere!) and crashing into a tree... He has some SERIOUS issues. And I don't completely believe his story, he might have just been driving like a dumbass. I'm pretty young, and I know that on the way to school a few times I decided to open her up a little and go a little dori dori - and yes, it did bite me once. Taught me a valuable lesson too.
Tell your kid to slow the helld own in the morning. Even if he's late for school, forgetting shoes and whatnot - well, being late for class isn't worth dying for.

 

How do you forget your shoes ? Have you ever tried driving without shoes ?

Atleast nobody got hurt.

 

Your son didn't forget his shoes. There's another explanation in there somewhere, and he'll tell you about it if you have a good relationship. Did he leave his shoes at his girlfriends? (I did that!) Did he throw them out the window at someone? (I probably did that too!). Did some guys at school hold him down & take them off his feet? (he is too embarassed to tell you). More likely than not, he didn't simply "forget" them.

I would take any comments that he has "major issues" with a grain of salt. His issue is that he is 16 years old. As a 16-year old, I did far worse than this. For example, I: 1) wrecked my '66 Mustang into a chain link fence...with my friend riding on the roof; 2) crashed a motorcycle through a hotel window, knocking the air conditioning unit and TV onto a lady in the room; 3) wrecked my parents' station wagon, while throwing up and driving at 30 mph in reverse; 4) stole piglets from the local University farm and stuck them into a dormitory window; 5) shot a guy between the eyes with a BB gun; 6) stole my neighbor's car (actually I was 14); 7) broke into an abandoned school and nearly burned it down; 8) bought a Honda Interceptor despite my parents' strict "NO", and hid it at in elderly neighbor's garage and rode it to school every day, without my parents knowing; 9) Stole a cooler full of beer out of the back of a pickup truck at the local racetrack, hid it in the trunk of my Fiat Spider, and ultimately got beat up by about 15 adults who watched the whole thing.

As long as you survive them, the days of being 16 years old are pretty amusing and memorable.

 

Mtn...I admire your adventurism...@ 16 w/ so much memories....Wish I had some kind ventures like yours. @ 16, I was working after school..Take school bus to work..Straight home aftward to do homework...etc...Hmmm Youth!!!!

I second your comments there. His son didn't forget..He used the best excuse he can comeup w/ at the time.

 

My father was a prisoner of war in the Viet-Nam war- shot down during the Linebacker II Christmas bombings in late '72. He and three crewmates survived. He and his fellow "jailbirds" had a saying something like:

"It's never a bad day when the door to your room has a doorknob on your side."

Of course, it was only later as I grew up that I realized how an experience like that can extend one's measuring stick of how good or bad things can get.

He was a damn good father.

No intentions of hijacking the thread, but I thought I'd share this in light of the other comments.

 

Serious issues - yeah well, that just smacks of stupidity, and sorry, but even if he IS 16 he doesn't get a free pass. I wish driving tests were tougher - I never should have gotten a license that young.

 

I decided to get married one day....and I did...does that count??

 

I am speechless. I am without speech.

 

Are you a member of PCA--Penitentiary Car Association?

 

Aviate, navigate, communicate........in that order.