Mine flipped two...not one..but two...cars.
School and fulltime job and a girlfriend living 3 hours away = sleep upright with eyes open..but brain off.
He lived to marry her. I thank God flips were middle of the night and no other cars involved.
He is now 39 and a responsible father of two and a pretty good husband..dad..cook and housekeeper.
I had my doubts and many a time thought that there must be something wrong with me to create a creature with such poor judgement.
A true story....he got a lot of tickets. Misc stuff including speeding.
I spoke to a lawyer..I was afraid that we would get sued if he damaged property or worse. He was a college student...were we liable??? Not sure what he had ticket wise. He was driving our car sometimes ( his was a heap ) to go back and forth to college at times.
The laywer said he would look into it....."check my son out."
He called. The boy had a lot of speeding tickets.. I wept..I wept a lot...
I told the lawyer that I was sure I birthed a bad seed.. It could only get worse. (I was the mom that cried in the principles office when my son backed up the school toilet when he flushed a kids hat doen the commode and so I knew early on that Inwas raisig a sociopath)
The lawyer said.:
"NO ..no...don't cry...look ...you ought to see MY son... Rotten through and through..no remorse.. YOUR son seems to have three lawyers...all local.. ..he THINKS none of the lawyers is aware of the others. I spoke to all three and they are very much aware of his connections with all of them. Clearly, he is too embarrassed to fess up to any one of them that he is a serial speeder. His auto insurance is through the roof but it is current. One lawyer told me recently your son sent him a check for $4 and change toward his bill. All his lawyers say he is paying them something every month.... I assure you...your son has all the markings of a responsible adult."
Now..I had to think about that....hard...... But..that being what it was.... I had to take it and chose to believe him. He was correct. It could have gone the other way.
