speaking of kids Kyle
school started here yesterday, I drive past the high school every day going into town.
I've been severely tailgated by some kids late to school a few times, or just crazy drivers, through that school zone so
I just put my four way flashers on and that usually gets them off my tail. The school zone is 35, not 15...with busses turning across traffic, lots of cars pulling out in all directions, so you really do need to slow down through there. And think about it, a concentration of young, inexperienced drivers all in one spot.
Need to drive very defensively. I do 37 in a 35 and slower for sure if folks are turning right in front of me.
And usually assume everyone else is crazy and unpredictable.
I need to be extra careful with a fused neck; really don't want to wind up being a quadraplegic after a bad car crash. So I try to stay away from other cars, drive like I was driving a semi, leaving distances. We'll never have a problem if we leave enough distance between us and everything else...
Never had a car until my senior year in high school, rode the bus. Parents were totally non materialistic and cars were just transportation. One hour bumpy bus ride morning and night. Senior year got a hand me down 56 Chevy wagon, really clapped out after going through two older brothers. Sold it for a couple hundred dollars when I went off to college. Could not afford a car then either. Two weeks before graduating in 1971, bought my first new car, a little toyota corolla coupe with a four speed and hemi four with 102hp. Yes, toyota had a little hemi back then. And anything over a hundred horsepower was
impressive for a starter car. Compare that to today. Today's cars are way more powerful, but also much safer. But still, with a sixteen year old driver, you just don't know what they are going to do. Yesterday the driver training car pulled slowly out of the high school, and didn't turn fast enough and drove up on the far grassy shoulder during the turn. I bet that instructor was having palpitations. As would any parent with a new driver.
probably easier on me to avoid that route into town during school traffic times.