Evening,
Taking my boys to school this morning, it came on the radio that around 20% of all children think their parents drive to fast.
So, I ask the question. "Do I drive to fast"? The answer was no from both of them so Im sitting there feeling quite good about it.
So, the second question then comes out "Do I drive to slow"? Yes was the answer.
I cant win, I'm only 44 surely I cant be too old yet. Can I?
I believe I'm a "normal" driver.
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20% of statistics are made up - 97% of people don't know that.
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phew!!! just asked 11 yr old SWMBO in waiting, she said yes!! GOOD and I am 52!
Senior Management then asked her same question, and yep, she drives to slow! "she" is 49, must therefore be a forties thing!
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In plain English, 20% of all children are wimps. Your sons are normal. :-)
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Errrrrr...
By what criteria do kids measure speed?
It isn't as if they little tinkers can actually drive a car, is it?
I suspect the nanny-state education system is behind this.
Next thing, the kids will be telling you to put that fag out, and not to use so much lard when you cook.
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Next thing the kids will be telling you to put that fag out and not to use so much lard when you cook.
They already do! At the age of about 5 my grandson told off people who smoked, and my 10 year old grandson told me I'm racist because I admitted to owning a golliwog when I was young.
Edited by L'escargot on 13/11/2008 at 07:02
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my 10 year old grandson told me I'm racist because I admitted to owning a golliwog when I was young.
The jam just doesn't taste the same these days, does it?
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What do the other 80% think - that their parents drive too slowly, or at the right speed?
Does the 20% mean always too fast, or just sometimes?
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my 10 year old grandson told me I'm racist because I admitted to owning a golliwog when I was young.
Oh for the old days, when a sharp clip around the ear would have sorted out their uninformed political views...;-)
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My 3 yr old loves flat out acceleration! The pride I feel at this cannot be put into words.
Cheers
DP
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To answer your original question there's only one thing worse than getting older. Not getting older.
Along similar (age) lines I was driving from Swadlincote to Glossop last Sunday night and caught up with an old Morris Traveller; 40mph and semaphore indicators. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
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My oldest daughter always complained if we weren't going as fast as possible.
Nothing to do with the thrill of driving fast etc, she's just impatient, basically.
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On the PC aspect of this we were in a large family group at the panto two years ago to see Aladdin.
I heard one of the nephews - about 11 - worrying out loud that the portrayal of Wishee Washee was racist.
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>>my 10 year old grandson told me I'm racist because I admitted to owning a golliwog when I was young.
And if you had an "Action Man" but not an equivalent number of female dolls, or if you spent more time playing with Action Men than female dolls, you were guilty of sexual discrimination.
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found this little gem on the news wire.
From one of the little-britisher papers...
MOTHERS are better drivers than fathers and children feel happier when women are behind the wheel.
Youngsters said their fathers were aggressive, drove too fast and lost their tempers quickly when in the driving seat, but mothers managed to appear happy all journey.
A poll by Hyundai also revealed that four out of five children thought their mother's driving was best despite, they said, her being more likely to stall or have trouble reversing.
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I remember when my kids were sub-teens we used to play a game where they would tell me when to overtake, I would perhaps decide not to and tell them to count to 10, if anything came the other way during the counting we were all dead! We 'died' a lot until they got the grasp of the principles involved!
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I remember when my kids were sub-teens we used to play a game where they would tell me when to overtake I would perhaps decide not to and tell them to count to 10 if anything came the other way during the counting we were all dead! We 'died' a lot until they got the grasp of the principles involved!
Excellent idea.
There's a school of thought locally that one of the reasons that accidents involving young drivers are on the increase is due to the 'playstation generation' having no idea of speed, stopping distances, closing speeds, anticipation etc etc, as they have little or no experience of riding bicycles.
This struck a chord with me - my brother and I both rode bicycles a lot as kids, but my sister didn't. And she is RUBBISH behind the wheel of a car!
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I remember when my kids were sub-teens we used to play a game where they would tell me when to overtake I would perhaps decide not to and tell them to count to 10 if anything came the other way during the counting we were all dead! We 'died' a lot until they got the grasp of the principles involved!
That is such a good idea. Learning to overtake safely and also knowing when not to is actually quite a difficult concept to grasp safely and this seems a good way of learning without the nasty consequences of making the mistake properly.
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I remember telling my children our car could fly. Used to touch the heater control then tell them the car was airbourne. I would only fly a couple of inches above the ground as it was quite dangerous in traffic! thought no more of it until I heard one very excited youngster telling his mum that he`d just had a lift in Alex`s dads car and it can fly.
Felt quite embarassed having to explain my behaviour to a group of parents outside the school.
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