Nope...even during the darkest years of the Billary coup d'etat, my hair was thick and dark. :D

The day my oldest took the 300TE and pulled away from the driveway...Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins' Ava Adore blasting on the Alpine:

In you I see dirty
In you I count stars
In you I feel so pretty
In you I taste god
In you I feel so hungry
In you I crash cars
We must never be apart

That's the day when my hair began to fall off by the handful and began turning gray (rather attractive shade of silver I must say). :D

Man, you sound like me at 16.

Honor roll student, the kid all parents wanted their kids to be like, looked upon by teachers as the "oldest 16 yo around."

Yet, when I was behind the wheel it was like Jekyll and Hyde. My doppelgänger would take over and watch out!

I think that giving a driver's license to a 16 yo is crazy! :dizzy2:

The Provisional License has been the law in NJ for a while.
I have to say, I've seen a lot less in the way of teen drivers doing stupid things compared to years ago.
As a very regular motorcycle rider I do pay attention of who is driving what and their actions that I can see inside the car.

When I was 15 and 16, I spent a lot of time on my moped. It was a Cimatti that could do 40. As a result, I learned a lot more than most about how to drive in our NJ environment safely. Of course, that was prior to idiots with cell phones.

It would make more sense to actually train them to drive, and before that encourage responsibility, than to impose regulation to correct stupidity, however this is the USA we're talking about. But, when I was up until yesterday, probably sometime later this week again, I always take my junk off-road, where I'm alone. Rally racing was always my favorite.

A fine ideal, however, most don't have the desire or the attention span to seriously train to properly drive a vehicle. Just ask 'em. The'll tell you that you're an old fart and it's not a big deal.........any moron can drive a vehicle.

Sadly........apparently, they're correct..........

Yeah, I know, and if they don't get a license they'll drive anyway. It hurts them in the long run, in the form of zillions of road pigs and speed limits.

*** And this happens ***
 

Hey! Even the "pros" need a kick in the @55 now and then...

This afternoon, I'm heading through the west-bound construction zone, in the right-hand lane, and ahead is where the west-bound I-90 traffic is getting ready to MERGE back onto the true west-bound I-90, on the left lane. And about 1/4 mile ahead is Exit 2...

As the semi/18-wheeler is coming onto the left-lane, I'm even with him, in my PUNNY LITTLE S-10, in the right lane - He's MERGING back onto the true west-bound (I mentioned that, didn't I?)

Anyways, I looked up and into his cab through his small "foot window" and at the same time, I could see his right front tire move over to the center line, then it started to ride ON the center line, then...YEP - THE SOB IS COMING OVER INTO/ONTO ME!!!

I pulled on the sholder/rumble strip, hit the gas and squirted ahead of him by about 2 feet - a warm feeling was coming from ... Oh, never mind!

He did a very neat left turn back into his lane and didn't manage to jack-knife the rig in the process.

If I hadn't been watching him and thinking "WTF is he going to do?" I'd be wrapped around his number 2 & number 3 axles right now, tying up traffic 'til the chalking and orange paint dries.

He just wanted to slide over to get off at Exit 2, which is where all this crap just about happened.

I hope his pants are warmer then mine almost became! :P

DEFENSIVE DRIVING IS WAY TOO UNDERRATED...