Posted on 10/16/2016 10:42:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
gotta start learning early
to get good enough
to avoid getting smashed to smithereens
by cars (mostly Lexuses)
driven 90 mph by (mostly Chinese women) maniacs
in
the Costco parking lot
With a name like ‘Kwaniqua’, the picture probably wasn’t necessary.
I don’t know. If it was ‘wreckless’, shouldn’t it be the old soccer call, ‘no harm, no foul’?
So he can drive to the convenience store and pick up beer and cigarettes for her?
Maybe she just wanted Likes on YouTube and Facebook.
Funny.
I can remember sitting on my dad’s lap at 7 (or younger) driving the car. (He still had control of the gas and brake...)
Sad what this country has come to.
“Kwaniqua”...... all I needed to know.
My parents and grandparents also used to not only let us do stuff that would get them in trouble today, they would also sometimes asked us to do stuff that was maybe a bit questionable even back then.
When I was about 7 my cousin and I were at Yellowstone National Park camping with my grandparents. My grandfather asked my cousin who was about the same age and I to paddle the canoe down a river that was behind our campsite into Yellowstone Lake that was about a mile away so we could go fishing. It was a slow moving river and in years past my grandfather had stayed in the same campground had taken the canoe up and down the river to the lake to go fishing. But for some reason this year there were signs at the campground that warned people not to take their boats out on the river. The signs did not say why and it made my grandfather mad.
My cousin and I loved to paddle around in the canoe so we were more than happy to take the canoe out. But I was an advanced reader for my age and saw the signs. My grandfather just said that the sign didn't apply to kids, but even at that age I was a bit skeptical. So my cousin and I started paddling down the river.
When we got to where the river opened up into the lake it got shallow and there was a herd of moose standing in the water eating weeds with their calves. Ahead and above us there was a big crowd of people taking pictures of the moose "herd" from a bridge. There was also an excited looking ranger who was running around making hand motions and yelling something at us. We couldn't understand what he was trying to say. My cousin and I didn't think anything about it; the moose just looked like weird horses to us and we paddled right through them without any confrontations and out onto the lake.
When we got to where we had agreed to meet my grandfather, he was talking with a couple rangers. He had told them that we had taken the canoe for a joy ride and that “boys will be boys”. The rangers gave us a stern lecture about how we had just done something very dangerous and that our poor grandfather had been worried sick. We were savvy enough to go along with the story, so we all got let off with a warning from the rangers and got to spend the day fishing for trout with my grandfather. Afterward grandfather had to walk back to the campground and get the station wagon, while my cousin and I guarded the fish and the canoe.
Florida. Of course.
Sad to say, you are probably right.
Seems to be the cause of a lot of stupid stuff these days.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.