Well Brett......I wish you luck!!! When my friend Linda took her daughter to a parking lot on the hill behind the Children's Services building where she worked on a Sunday, she thought it was a safe place. Sadly, her daughter panicked a bit and got confused/disoriented and floored the gas instead of the brake, sending Linda's new Honda Accord through/across the old stone wall at the edge of the lot.........and down the hill..........and shooting across the back driveway..........and crashing into the building........even damaging the office inside where they hit...............which was Linda's!!! Luckily and thankfully neither was hurt but the Honda spent a month in the shop.

My best friend in high school had one of the funniest Dad's I ever met. I always loved Charley's sense of humor and his ability to have a great line at the right time. Mike was unsuccessfully practicing parallel parking and asked Charley how his latest effort was. Charley opened the passenger door,looked out, and said, "Hey, this looks pretty good. I can walk to the curb from here." They were out driving and Mike went off the road a bit and typically had a hard time recovering but managed to get things back together. He apologized and asked Charley if he had scared him. Charley replied, "No not really. I guess these are just nicotine stains in the back of my U-Trou."

I wasn't quite as controlled when I had Adam out on his first driving excursion. The road narrowed at a bridge and after we crossed Adam cut back a bit quickly slamming into a curb which blew the tire and bent the rim and sent the van back to the right where we clipped a sign, taking off the mirror. He got it stopped in a parking area and I just sat there trying to "maintain an even strain." I reached in my wallet, gave him a card and a quarter and told him to go call Piper's for a wrecker. After he was out of earshot, I surveyed the damage and screamed and cussed for about 5 minutes........it helped.

Spaw