“Our 11-year-old granddaughter, the oldest of 5, asked if she can have it when she turns 16,” Tom says. “I haven’t given her an answer.”
Sure, Grandpa! Give her the keys to a $250K car and a bottle of Jack for her 16th Birthday, LOL! What could go wrong?
(Cute story, though!)
I had a friend growing up whose father had purchased him a 55 T-Bird. It was stored in the garage and was to be given to him when he got his license at 16. His dad had done the same thing for my friends older brother and sister. We had gone to school together since the 3rd grade and we would occasionally go into the garage to look at and day dream about the day he would get it. I had moved away by that time but he became somewhat of a HS wastoid when he finally got it. He proceeded to thoroughly trash it and eventually wrecked it.