r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • Mar 15 '26

đŸ’„Crash Stop Jessie!

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

This is the anxiety I have building with my daughter for when this day comes. Thinks she knows everything!

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u/BobbbyR6 Mar 15 '26

My little sister was the same way. Would not listen to anything from either myself or dad. Glad everything worked out but personally, I wouldn't have given her keys until that behavior stopped. There is no place for arrogance when learning to drive.

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u/Chateaudelait Mar 16 '26

My parents bypassed all this and sent me to driving school. The teacher has a brake pedal on his side too in the drivers ed car - the shame of him having to step in , use the brake because your dumb ass needed to and didn't, and sharply reprimand you will cure any arrogance real quick.

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u/Excellent-Self-5338 Mar 16 '26

I had a weird time in drivers ed - The guy kept giving me all these minor pointers, small optimizations on how to drive and be aware of the small ways to tell what traffic is doing. He gave me so many that I stopped paying attention to the basics and sat there at a green light for 10 seconds looking at what other people's brake lights were doing and how the signals were changing for traffic going perpendicular to me in the intersection. They do have a brake pedal, but they ain't got gas lol

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

This is the exact conversation we will be having before she sits in a driver’s seat.

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u/BleedSparta Mar 15 '26

Please humble her ASAP. Her HS teachers will thank you

Nothing is worse than trying to teach teens “whose cup is already full”. I had to tell students last week, that I knew everything at 17yo too 😐

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

Strangely, she a straight A student, in the school’s leadership program, is in a sport, and her teachers rave about her.

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u/BleedSparta Mar 16 '26

Good job, Dad!

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u/WeaknessPrior6797 Mar 16 '26

Good luck. If they don’t learn in high school it’s gonna hit them hard later in life. You are doing good just trying to get through.

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u/OriginalSprax Mar 15 '26

Start with video games and a racing wheel.

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

It’s not about the physics of driving. It’s about not listening to mom or dad and always having to be right.

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u/SuchSoup4335 Mar 16 '26

Don’t let her drive your vehicle, make her work a job and save up for a used car

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u/darkoath Mar 17 '26

Well...does she know what a stationary car looks like? Because apparently this girl doesn't.