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Oct 20, 2022, 8:16 AM
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One of the life skills that you're never taught is learning how to smile and say "It's ok honey" when your 16 year old daughter is bawling after pulling in the garage before the door is all the way up and destroying the @#$%@#$ out of two of the four panels with the roof rack on her car. That was my evening.
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That's not how my father would have handled that
Oct 20, 2022, 8:18 AM
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if we had a garage
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It's not how I would have handled it either
Oct 20, 2022, 8:19 AM
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with my son. Sexism works both ways.
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My father was an equal opportunity ### kicker***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:19 AM
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Re: That's not how my father would have handled that
Oct 20, 2022, 8:37 AM
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My diddy hit the garage door once so I had a little bit of insurance with my driving #### ups.
A little.
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Did you at least say
Oct 20, 2022, 8:21 AM
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"What the Fuck, daughterofobed???"
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It was more like
Oct 20, 2022, 8:22 AM
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"Sooooo, when you heard the initial loud noise, what knowledge of physics made you think it was a solid idea to keep pulling forward?"
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She's the reason JFB's insurance is so high***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:23 AM
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Physics class doesn't come until at least junior year second
Oct 20, 2022, 10:04 AM
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semester
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yeah....these scenarios
Oct 20, 2022, 8:22 AM
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I'm not built for this. Gotta soften up which I've been told comes with time.
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You can be the most self-aware, stone-hearted SOB
Oct 20, 2022, 8:24 AM
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in the universe, and daughters will manipulate you like a marionette in a scenario like this.
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Quite frankly, I don’t know which is worse
Oct 20, 2022, 8:26 AM
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When lilmissgrouching does it knowingly or without even trying.
Either way, #hesrightyouknow.gif
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I figure it's a life skill, so I'm ok with it.***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:27 AM
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Me too, while simultaneously covering my wallet.***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:31 AM
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This sounds a lot like our favorite female coot
Oct 20, 2022, 8:39 AM
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on FB from J.L. Mann. Her hump dumpling has destroyed 3 or 4 cars and the last one just produced anguished wails of "Just take my keys away, I can't drive!'
Apparently, she does grasp the obvious.
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Lulz! Guy I know here is one of those good old
Oct 20, 2022, 8:41 AM
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boy blue collar rich guys who's done really well in contracting. His little darling was given a new Maserati SUV for her 16th b-day. It's been replaced twice, with the same model car.
Assuming I ever reached the point of insanity where I got a kid a car like that (I wouldn't, hypothetical), that second or third car would be a 2003 Suburban with 250k miles.
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With leaky exhaust into the
Oct 20, 2022, 8:51 AM
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passenger compartment.
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My boys say my daughter is the favorite.
Oct 20, 2022, 9:41 AM
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The reality is she actually likes to hang out w me still, watch shows, go for bike rides etc. the boys just care about video games and girls (the older one).
I don’t have a favorite but I prob spend more time w daughter bc she actually asks to spend the time w me.
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Like the time sonof backed into my car with his car
Oct 20, 2022, 8:23 AM
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in the driveway. Double whammy. And, I have it captured on video (which I saved, of course.)
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Wife took the rear bumper off my S2000. I think I cried.***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:26 AM
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We only had a two car garage so neither son ever pulled in
Oct 20, 2022, 8:25 AM
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with their car. But MIL was staying at our house once and called and said the garage door would not shut.
We get home and she had hit the wall, damaging not only the track the door was on, the sensor but also the brick facade at the bottom. Yea, I can see why it would not shut.
She denied hitting anything of course.
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You know, if we just formed a giant pile
Oct 20, 2022, 8:29 AM
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These things would never happen.
Man that sucks. Garage door work these days is like.....expensive and stuff. Someone in here recently dropped a lot of cheese on garage door(s) but I don't remember The Who.
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Re: You know, if we just formed a giant pile
Oct 20, 2022, 8:34 AM
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I probably could have sorted out the door being jammed against the car (zero car damage, whew) and taking the door apart, but one of the cables snapped and one was still intact, so I don't eff with Torsion springs. $350 to have the guy come out last night and basically help me sort the thing out to where I can manually raise it and lower it by hand.
Supposed to come out Friday and give me quotes on the two panels but lead times suuuuuuck right now. I actually went skraight FBC and found an entire door on CL that was really nice (can only assume they replaced it with juana them fancy new wood ones) for $250, which is hella cheap.....tempting.
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Re: You know, if we just formed a giant pile
Oct 20, 2022, 8:36 AM
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U should probably demo the garage so it never happens again
Oct 20, 2022, 8:35 AM
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An ounce of prevention ya know ...
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I didn't think your people were involved in the lives
Oct 20, 2022, 8:35 AM
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of their children
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Success stories are out there on every corner.***
Oct 20, 2022, 8:37 AM
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I have four daughters, I, too, learned this lesson
Oct 20, 2022, 8:37 AM
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over many mistakes.
My son ? " Hey, son, you know you ###### up, right ? OK, don't do it again."
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Re: Parenting.net
Oct 20, 2022, 8:40 AM
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My neighbors, well, the wife rules that house with an iron fist and not too long ago, she ripped the roof off their brand new golf cart by backing out when the garage door wasn't all the way up. He was also very gentle with her but I think for other reasons.
The rest of us on the street were not so gentle.
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I'm picturing you, drunk in the driveway with the Mexicans,
Oct 20, 2022, 8:43 AM
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yelling "Hey, chica, nice convertible!" when she drove by.
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Back in high school, my sister drove my dads golf
Oct 20, 2022, 9:00 AM
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cart straight through the shed doors trying to park it, and it was my fault for not leaving the doors open. My other sister intentionally rear ended golf cart driving sister in her pristine 2001 BMW 330Ci because they were in a fight. I took that one a little more personally than I should have, frankly I'm still mad at her about it. That car was beautiful.
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LOL when Dad-of was dating mom-of, he pulls VW van
Oct 20, 2022, 8:47 AM
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into Mom-Ofs parents garage, which was underneath the house.
It was a 2-car garage and had one of those pillars in between the bays, supporting the house above.
He clipped/removed the pillar. House did not collapse.
Not sure what how Grandad reacted to that, but boy howdy.
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On two (!!!) occasions my youngest sister forgot to put her
Oct 20, 2022, 9:25 AM
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car into park and it rolled into my parent's garage door. As you said, she got consolation. If I had done that it would have been the apocalypse.
My MIL also backed into her garage door because she didn't realize it was still raising.
I'm noticing a trend in these stories.
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I'd suggest leaving it like it is until she moves out.
Oct 20, 2022, 9:37 AM
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A - will only have to repair it once.
B - constant reminder for her to be careful.
C - if you ever think she's going to ask for something you don't want to do...just go in front of your house and stare at the garage door. She'll leave you alone.
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Just take it out of her upcoming NIL money
Oct 20, 2022, 9:56 AM
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It's a fair deal. Problem solved
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Have her call g'ma and g'pa in tears, see if they will pay
Oct 20, 2022, 9:58 AM
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for it. Tell them I said hey
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Parenting.net _ here’s a different approach that worked …
Oct 20, 2022, 10:30 AM
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to some extent when raising kids … or at least kept them off guard.
Get POed and mad when they do little dumb things. When they do big dumb things be cool and comforting. In the first case they may not know or really care because the consequences are small. Unloading on them is somewhat preventative. When big dumb happens, kids can see and understand the consequences. Little use in pounding that message in.
Plus it confuses the Mom.
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Is it fair for me to assume there is a 100% chance that
Oct 20, 2022, 10:38 AM
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while hitting the garage door was a bummer, she did in fact get her be real posted in time?
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I'm still waiting to get compensated for a garage door
Oct 20, 2022, 11:13 AM
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my wife crinkled in 2004 when she put it down while I had the tailgate open on my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
It wa only about $700 for a new door, and $1500 in paint and bodywork to the Jeep.
Much like anything else, somehow it was my fault. She got mad and shut the door out of spite because I was outside drinking beer with my neighbor.
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Well played. Which Rover was she driving?***
Oct 20, 2022, 12:25 PM
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LR3
Oct 20, 2022, 6:57 PM
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Not a scratch on it.
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I backed my Sport into my garage door one time.
Oct 21, 2022, 10:06 AM
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But I was on the way to the hospital driving myself to have my first child.
Husband of took one last stupid business trip when I was about to pop and shore enough it was time to go. My mom was with me but too nervous to drive me... sooooo yes, we blamed him.
Not a scratch on the RR, but total loss on the garage door.
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Re: Parenting.net
Oct 20, 2022, 12:31 PM
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So, this is why women can't drive
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I blame alot of stuff on people staring at their cellphone
Oct 20, 2022, 12:43 PM
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was the cellphone involved?
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Obed, we needs answers.
Oct 21, 2022, 9:33 AM
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@oObed®
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trying again
Oct 21, 2022, 9:33 AM
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One I did develop was teaching the children that...
Oct 20, 2022, 7:09 PM
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waiting for the garage door to stop before they try to park in the garage is a vital driving lesson even though it's not on the test.
My daughters, four of the five, know how to check the oil on their car's engine(s). IDK if that plural or not and I'm tired.
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my daughter smacked wooden shelves at the back of the
Oct 20, 2022, 8:27 PM
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garage and dented the front hood so it would not open and close right after that
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