Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

zing · Jan 30, 2015

EricTheOracle said:
I forgot about this photo from last summer.

Four houses down from our lake home, our neighbor decided today was the day he'd teach his fourteen-year-old son how to drive. The driving lesson lasted 30 feet: From the mailbox to the ditch. Dad was in the front passenger seat. Apparently dad didn't think to grab the wheel when junior sawed on it and made a beeline for the ditch.

I told my neighbor when I jumped out of my truck that I would be taking photos and He said, "Be my guest, I already have two."

Get's better. The truck was low on gas and would not start up after falling into the ditch. And from the parenting fail files, I asked why the kid wasn't also waiting for the tow truck as a lesson in responsibility and was told the kid wanted to go back to their lake home.

These are my neighbors: I live in fear of the day they take up hunting.

That is half the reason I bought little battery powered gators for my kids. They could navigate around hedges and trees, then drive into the barn and do a 3-point turn and drive back out by the time they were 5 or 6 years old. Hopefully it will save me a few expensive beginner mistakes when they hit the real roads and parking lots. The kids have fun and I save money in the long run. Hopefully anyway.

mikehaugen · Jan 30, 2015

zing said:
That is half the reason I bought little battery powered gators for my kids. They could navigate around hedges and trees, then drive into the barn and do a 3-point turn and drive back out by the time they were 5 or 6 years old. Hopefully it will save me a few expensive beginner mistakes when they hit the real roads and parking lots. The kids have fun and I save money in the long run. Hopefully anyway.

I completely agree, there was a thread a while back about letting kids drive riding mowers and I couldn't believe how many people were opposed to it.

zing · Jan 30, 2015

mikehaugen said:
I completely agree, there was a thread a while back about letting kids drive riding mowers and I couldn't believe how many people were opposed to it.

Yep, and if you make it fun you might even get some work out of them from time to time.

I couldn't even count the number of times I have been picking up sticks from the lawn after some wind, or pulling some weeds. etc, and instead of going to get a wheelbarrow, just called over one of the kids and filled the back of their gator and then told them to go drive off and dump it somewhere. :laughing: :thumbsup:

dragoneggs · Jan 30, 2015

zing said:
That is half the reason I bought little battery powered gators for my kids. They could navigate around hedges and trees, then drive into the barn and do a 3-point turn and drive back out by the time they were 5 or 6 years old. Hopefully it will save me a few expensive beginner mistakes when they hit the real roads and parking lots. The kids have fun and I save money in the long run. Hopefully anyway.

Rite of passage in my book. Parents are babying their kids way to much these days. Can't leave them alone for a minute without risking a visit from CPS. Heck the kids even have the number in their cell phones.

sixdogs · Jan 30, 2015

zing said:
Yep, and if you make it fun you might even get some work out of them from time to time.

I couldn't even count the number of times I have been picking up sticks from the lawn after some wind, or pulling some weeds. etc, and instead of going to get a wheelbarrow, just called over one of the kids and filled the back of their gator and then told them to go drive off and dump it somewhere. :laughing: :thumbsup:

Now that is a priceless photo in my book. You'll look back at that many times over the years.

Leejohn · Jan 30, 2015

Yes he and the kids well look back at that one. The little girl is kind of short on apples, get her some in there to dump.

MinnesotaEric · Jan 31, 2015

sixdogs said:
Now that is a priceless photo in my book. You'll look back at that many times over the years.

When those two little girls are old and grey, and just memories are left, and we're all long gone, and the vista in the photo nearly is forgotten for all the development since, these two girls will treasure this photo and what fun dad was to get them their own little gators. :cloud9: