Ugh, how terrible. I only recall my Reaganesque father doing two questionable things in his life. One of them was buying my (then) 60 year old mom with macular degeneration a turbo Maserati. I was her passenger only once and that's all it took to have a serious sit down with dad to end that! This poor girl did what 16 year old girls (or boys) are expected to do with a high performance machine!
It’s like the PJ O’Rourke quote:
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”