The Grandson called Friday afternoon, wanting to know if he could spend the weekend with us. He is 17. While I love it that he wanted to come over, I suspected ulterior motives.
He has his driver's license but does not yet have a vehicle (the truck his dad is fixing up for him is still not fixed up). He needs a vehicle for some school activities but has not had a lot of driving experience. The Husband and I suspected that he wanted to borrow one of our vehicles until his dad gets his truck running.
Sure enough, that's what he wanted.
You may remember that when he was 6 years old, I promised to give him my Wrangler, if I still had it when he turned 16. I still have it. A few years ago, I even bought myself another vehicle in order to save wear and tear on the Wrangler in anticipation of giving it to him when he came of age.
He left here in the Wrangler today, headed to a friend's house. In the front seat was a never-used, still-in-the-box 10-disc CD changer that I'd bought for The Husband years ago but was never installed. He and his buddy are going to replace the roached-out CD changer that came with the Wrangler when I bought it 20 years ago (it has been wet a few times over the years) and see if they can fix the radio that suddenly quit playing a couple of month ago.
Watching him drive away was tough. He hasn't had nearly as much driving experience as he needed. We let him drive a lot this weekend. Teenage boy that he is, with his big size 12 feet, he "punches it" a little harder than I think he should.
Before he left, I told him, "Do not wreck the Wrangler. I don't want either of you hurt."
When he got to his friend's house, he texted The Husband that he had arrived safe at his destination and had hit only one pedestrian in the process. Smart-ass kid. ;)
Pray with me that this wasn't a mistake.
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