Prudie Day

flantastic · June 2024

ILoveBeachMusic said:

banana468 said:

ILoveBeachMusic said:

I agree a car needs to have the safety features, but I doubt the teenager was complaining because the car wasn't safe enough. I'm figuring it wasn't the model of car or the color of car they wanted. That is where I think the kid is being a brat and entitled. So seatbelts were about the only safety feature in cars when I started driving (I'm sure we didn't have any airbags). I repeat, I would've been happy with any car my parents would've offered to buy (all of our family cars had seatbelts). I will say I didn't regularly use seatbelts until I met H. He wouldn't start a car until passengers had seatbelts buckled. This was several years before it was mandatory to wear them.

FWIW the only thing I'll say to soften my stance in the kid's favor after showing the X Thread to DH is that his assessment as the car enthusiast is that the car is 20 years old and is very much dented. So this is absolutely a car that's not going to be nearly as safe as one her parents drive if they drive newer vehicles and the dents in the car also imply it's worse for wear.

I don't think the teen is complaining about the lack of features but the age of the car chosen which contributes to its image. Kid probably knows hardly anything else other than 'my parents bought me an old car'.

I'm so glad you regularly use seatbelts now. It was a battle to get my dad to use one despite being in an accident as a teen when his head went through the windshield.

I haven't seen the thread so I have no idea what the car looked like so I will defer to your and your H's opinion. I'm just thinking of some of the kids my sons were in high school with who drove luxury vehicles and expected to get new ones if the trashed the first ones their parents bought them.
Oh my goodness I would never not wear a seatbelt now and have always worn one for the past 44+ years.

Now I'm thinking of those kids too, ha.