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| Mon, 05-21-2007 - 2:45pm |
My DSd just got her driver's license a few weeks ago. My DH usually works on a Sat. so he tells her she can have the car all day if she is willing to take him to work at 6:00 a.m. and pick him up at 5:00 p.m. Once he tried to wake her up at 6:00 and she just couldn't wake up, so he went to work and then I drove her there later since I was going to be in the general area (it's only about 15 mins. away from home).
So Fri. night, she asks if she can have the car to visit a friend. He says ok, then when he gets home, she says she wants to sleep over. He says ok, if you can still be home to pick me up at 6:00. Right away I think this is a bad idea. If it were me, I would have said either come home tonight or I'll drop you off at your friend's house. BTW, she can't drive w/ any friends in the car for 6 mos., so it's not like she could go anywhere w/ the friend either.
So Sat. a.m. I hear him on the phone upset. She says she came out of the house and 2 of the tires were flat. So I have to drive him to work (and I'm not a morning person) then I couldn't get back to sleep. So we call AAA and I have the car taken on a flatbed to a tire store. Not only are the 2 tires flat but the front wheel is broken and then they said the tailpipe is cracked. DH said it was fine before Friday. It was raining pretty heavily, so I'm thinking she could have hit a pothole that she didn't see if there was a big puddle and blown out the tires. On the other hand, since the 2 hubcaps were missing, it is possible someone could have come along and slashed the tires and stolen the hubcaps. She swears she knows nothing about this. I am skeptical since she has a history of lying. DH doesn't want to get into this too much since he's just not up for a big fight right now--he has recently been diagnosed w/ a bunch of health problems and is spending a day every week at dr's appts which is stressing him out. If she did accidentally hit a pothole in the rain, we could see how it could happen. I would just be very upset if she was lying about it.

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How can it be an invasion of privacy when it is your car.....your insurance rates, etc??
yeah I had heard about that insurance company and that was when I did my research and found that GPS thingy lol....
I'm pretty sure I will be investing in one of those about this time next year ;p
I was a TERRIBLE driver my first 4 -6 years of driving - many many speeding tickets and I totalled 2 cars - and tore up 2 more... and I was NEVER where my parents thought I was. Ughhh...
My cousin actually told me she got one of those things for the car (didn't look at your link) that you can put into the computer and it tells you everything about where they went, the speed, etc. I guess the main problem is that this is DH's car and his DD so I really don't have that much to say about it. I know that he probably knows she is lying but just can't deal w/ it right now w/ his own issues, etc. plus they have a history that their relationship just isn't that good. He's not that naive, yet he will just let her have the car for a whole Saturday, know that she drove 100 miles and yet not check up on where she is going. She could be going into downtown Boston for all we know (not a good place for an inexperienced driver to drive). I never just let my DD have the car for an unspecified period of time w/o knowing (or at least having some idea what she was doing). Before she got her own car, her driving was very limited--it was either going to church youth group, a game at school or maybe the movies. And yes I did know that she was probably driving sometimes w/ other kids in the car but I never caught her red handed or I would have taken it away. So I can kind of understand how my DH might want to put his head in the sand and ignore the obvious and not want to deal with it.
Then this a.m. I got up and found that a $10 bill was missing from my wallet. This has happened before, but then I question as to how much money I have. But I specifically remembered this because my son needed $10 for a school field trip and I was going to give him the money this a.m. Now since my DS was asleep, it was either DD or DSD. My DD has no problem asking me to borrow money if she hasn't had a chance to go to the bank, so I doubt it was her, but then again, no proof. I guess I'll start taking my purse into my room when I go to bed. It's pathetic--DH has a big jar in the bedroom closet that he puts coins into and he has noticed money missing from that jar too. :(
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