Thread: Geez am I banana annoyed

How much is the car worth?
Arrange for a wreckers to crush the car in front of him.

take it down to the wreckers and crush it, make him watch. Then tell him buy his own car.

Originally Posted by graceysdad

At home I have this old bubble back ford laser I have been slowly fixing for my middle boy, today the little %@$#$ took the thing for a drive to his mates place, the idea itself was fine but he has no licence, the car has no rego or insurance, I totally blew my fuse and I am still glowing red with anger so I am venting some steam here, I cant for the life of me make this 16 year old @$#@#@ realise what he did was plain wrong, he cant fathom the idea that I am majorly @^#%$ at his ignorance and lack of common sense, I got the old didnt I make stuff ups as a teenager, well I did but I paid for them dearly with my old man being the iron fisted old thing he was and is, we have trouble with this boy on a regular bases, he joydrove our AU when we were away and wrecked the backend trying to drift in inverted commas, left school uneducated, left home and lives with skank and her even skankier mother, comes home 3 mornings a week to deposit washing and scoff as much cornflakes as he can, I just cant see what I need to do with him now, the effect this sort of thing has on my atrial flutter is really unwanted, friggin kids Arrrghhhhh!, someone tell me I am not the only one who has these dramas with teenagers, I cant get over thinking what if he had killed someone, yes the keys were hidden, dont know how he got it going but it needs a new ignition now I put the axe through it in a bout of anger earlier, it wont go anywhere anytime soon!, mind you you dont have to be a rocket scientist to get an old laser going, most stolen car in the world

You get that.
My Son prior to getting his licence, let a mate drive the "Kids Corolla", and ran it into a tree!

When we got home from our holiday, here was the son and his mates in the house with a car out the front sporting a new black guard and lots of other bent pieces.

I was furious!
The car was almost sold on the spot.
If it were not for the wife, it would have been

Cheers,
Ron

Well, my boy's not one yet, so I ain't no expert...but

Fix it up then sell it. Tell him the deal to fix it up was for him to get a licence, get a job and start making something of himself and to stop bludging (cornflakes) off you and your family. Since he's demonstrated the inability to give a sh*t about anyone but himself, the Ford goes.

Good luck with him mate. Shame you can't sign him up for the Army - a couple of tune ups for insubordinance never anyone hurt (much).

I have to admit I did the same thing GD. I realise now how irresponsible it was but several years ago it just happened and as a young person didn't really see the issue.

Your son will never see the issue until he is older and having someone yell at him won't get it across it will just make him close down.

I'm not sure about crushing the car it seems you put in all the work and it would be a waste of your time. If you are going to get rid of it at least get some cash to fix up your series with.

Xav

yes my 2nd ex teenage son was exactly the same sort attitude and skank girlfriend who had 5 kids with different fathers and only had custody of 1 them as he was negro amercian sailor somewhere else in the world the other 4 she had lost custody of and she was 11 years odler than him.

only solution l find to work was to say stand on your feet and provide for yourself and stop bludging off me as l closed the door on his face.

I havent been happier in not seeing him and the $72,000 l paid to his mother when she left to settle the home ownership issues was cheap purchase of my freedom and sanity.

Originally Posted by graceysdad

comes home 3 mornings a week to deposit washing

Deposit his washing back on the street. If he can't wash it, there's no reason why your wife should.

I am also confused. Was the car being built up for him or another son?

My son was 17 when he did that.

I was at work, he decided to take his unregistered Scorpion out for a test drive with his mates.... I didn't even notice it gone when I got home.... must of been tired.

Next thing there's a knock at the front door.... the police... for a few seconds my heart stopped. They had an accident and rolled/totaled the scorpion. No injuries, thank God.

The police were good about it. They ripped shredds off him in front of me ( a lesson for both ?) but only booked him for neg driving (could have got him for a few more charges)... The boy sorta smiled at that until I reminded him about the double demerits in force...(lost license for 3 months - I think the police knew this).

I was angry as hell. I didn't yell at him or carry on. Tried to speak to him as an adult and how stupid his actions were... particularly as he had a young son a few months old.

The next day we went to the wreckers to pay the tow truck driver. I nearly lost it when I saw the wreck.... it was totaled. How they survived has amazed me to this day. All I could do was hold him tight and repeatedly tell him how lucky he was.

Perhaps you should see the police and organise for them to have a 'chat' with him.... intervention has got to be far better than worse case....

They grow up.... eventualy....

Good luck mate.

Pete