Smart Car?

::beep beep::

I could fit a Smart Car in the bed of truck.

I can make you a deal on one...

I've had good luck with Jeeps having had a Wrangler and a Grand Cherokee. Neither required any repairs, just kept changing the fluids as required. It's a 4wd so expect around 20 mpg on the highway.

Saw one at the lake with a very nice bike on the back of it (A Cervelo). The guy was racking his bike up as I was getting mine out of my lifted 4x4 Chevy. I couldn't resist asking "Does your smart haul that bike ok?"
Guy was good natured and laughed. He showed it to me. Its cute but awful small....

fixed

A cozy car for her and the boyfriend.

You may wish to revisit the Corvette as it has no backseat.

When it comes time to help my daughter pick out a car, I am going to make sure it does not have a backseat... I'll pay the extra insurance money LOL

Bill Engvall has a good strategy. Pull the boy aside and tell him "I got no problem going back to prison."

That's going to be my line. While I sit their cleaning my gun.


On a similar note, while at a family gathering at my parents on Sunday, my niece and her boy friend "Ralph" as we like to call him, were in the game room down stairs with some of the cousins.

When they all came up except the niece and her boy friend cause it was "getting to hot down stairs", my brother in law got up to go down and check on his daughter.

That's when my brother's middle son (who is a hoot), started rocking in his seat and beating his head, I asked him what was the matter and he cried out in his best "christmas story voice" "Daddy's going to kill Ralphy"

Perhaps I should mention that the first car my daughter had was a 2007 Ford Focus that The Boyfriend™ ::involuntary eye twitch:: borrowed (without my knowledge or consent) and totaled. Just got the car insurance renewal reflecting that accident

BTW, accidents fall on the car owner's insurance no matter who was driving the vehicle. So it makes no difference that I have not been involved in an accident for nearly 30 years - I lost my safe driver discount because of The Boyfriend™ ::involuntary eye twitch::

uh-oh, Flo wasn't too happy with you, huh?

TJ, "borrowing without consent" sounds like grand theft auto to me.

Oldest daughters 1st date, I had my collection of firearms spread on the floor, I was just "assessing and cleaning" them. It was totally coincidental to the timing of the date.
She kept going "MOM!?!?". All my ex and her little sister could do was giggle.
PS
I knew the kid and his family well.

Teej, if the car is in your name and he didnt have your permission, I'd call that stealing the car. Regardless of the insurance liablity, I would think his parents (if he is a minor) hold a certain financial liablity for the damage?

my state has strict gun laws

Would sharpen a Samurai Sword have the same effect?

How about oiling your handcuffs?

Well, it made no difference at all. I had given my daughter permission to drive the car and she gave him permission to use it.

The Boyfriend™ ::involuntary eye twitch:: did reimburse me my deductible but the father... well.... he nearly got arrested for public drunkenness when the police arrived on the scene of the accident. He (the father) was actually killed in a drunk driving accident a few months after this happened (no one else was injured).

I seriously hope this is now "The Former Boyfirend" or "TBTHMD".


(The Boyfriend That Has Mysteriously Disappeared)

No, he is still around. I can not blame him for the way his father behaved. The man physically abused the kid a couple of times that I know of and on the night of the accident, the kid was trying to get his clothes so he didn't have to stay there that night.

He is basically a good kid - though he's very immature and gets on my nerves. I am hoping some day my daughter will move on but I know anything I do to hasten that is very likely to backfire on me so I bite my tongue....

Bull honkey! You can give permission because it is your car, she does not have the authority to give him permission to steal your car, or use it without YOUR expressed permission. I say grand theft auto.

Believe me, I explored all possibilities with the police who investigated the accident and the insurance company. I'm stuck with the situation for the next 3 years or so with my insurance.

Who knew Reg E applied to auto use?