My sister's son, her firstborn, me dear sweet baby nephew, turned 16 years old today!!!! I'm still mad at my sister, 16 years later, that she missed having him on my birthday by one day. She should have pushed harder.
I just got off the phone with her and Hale passed his driver's test today. Check out his new ride!!!!! My sister bought him a Jeep!!! Okay, technically, she's saying it's not HIS, she's just letting him drive it every single day to school and it's their fourth car. But it's not HIS.
"He better not wreck it!", she told me yesterday on the phone.
I started laughing so hard, I was choking. I am STILL laughing today. He better not wreck it? I wrecked my car the day after I got it! I mean, literally, THE NEXT DAY!!!
My mom gave me the car on my birthday, and I wrecked it on the way to school the next day!!! I turned left in front of the quarterback and he slammed into me in his Pontiac Trans Am, right outside the school parking lot. I didn't get ticketed because he was hauling butt through the desert and flew through the dirt on the side of the road, on the wrong side of the road, so technically it wasn't my fault. I had like 10 people in the car, too. I kept picking people up and everyone was sitting on top of each other.
That was just the first car I wrecked. I also totaled a Mazda RX7 before I turned 19.
I didn't get ticketed for that one either because an old man from Sun City turned left in front of me when I was running a yellow light. That car was so low to the ground, he swore he never saw me. The whole front of the car buckled like an accordion, but I didn't get so much as a scratch.
I also got rearended in a Nissan Pulsar when I was 21. I was hit by a drunk driver and had my Mercury Topaz totaled in Vegas when I was 25.
Greg's dad used to tell me he thought he was going to get fired from Ford because they gave him a leased car every year to drive as a perk and his three sons wrecked every single one!!!
So when I wished my nephew a Happy Birthday today, I asked him, "Are you taking it to school tomorrow?"
"I don't think my mom will let me.", he said.
"I would TOTALLY let you if I was your mom. Your mom is so strict!!!!"
"I know, isn't she?", he said.
"Yes! You have the strictest mom EVER!"
Being an Aunt is like the funnest thing ever!!!
For the record, I'm not going to let my sister talk to my kids at all when they are teenagers. At all!
Enjoy it now, Michele, because you know what they say about payback....
ReplyDeleteJust had to chime in that my first brand new car was a Nissan Pulsar - black, 5-speed. I loved that car!
ReplyDeleteMy boys are 18 and 21, and neither of them have even gotten a speeding ticket (knock on wood).
My Pulsar was blue! Loved that car. I drove it to 150,000 miles.
ReplyDeleteThat jeep is cute, looks like a Tonka truck, but don't they flip over so easily? Glad I don't have kids that age, anymore. Every darn time I heard sirens in the distance and the kids were gone somewhere, i just knew....
ReplyDeleteJeeps flip easily but that is what the roll bars are for, right?
ReplyDeleteMichele really? Blue shoes with black hose? I can see the blue eyeshadow even with the blurry picture. You where such a fashion diva.
ReplyDeletePayback is a bitch sissy. When your girls start middle school I will send them tiny little string bikinis. Then I will give the boys leather racing gloves when they turn 16 so they can hang onto the steering wheel when they two wheel a corner. I can't wait, my kids will be long gone and I will need someones children to dysfunction. Oh what fun!
ReplyDeleteI too love being and aunt. I like the way you put together the anecdotes. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteNancy- I'll have you know I died my pumps to match my dress because I was TOTALLY BITCHIN'.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps it was DYED my pumps, but either way, I was TOTALLY BITCHIN'.
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny. My husband never let the kids call their cars "theirs." He always said "It's not YOUR car; it's a third car that I allow you to drive...." Then he actually surprised our daughter with personalized plates and said "now remember...it's not YOUR car..." She just bats her eyelashes and says "okay daddy." *sigh*
ReplyDeleteHeidi
You’re some kind of magnet for having had so many car accidents in the past. If I were in your shoes, I would have grabbed insurance plans to make sure everything’s covered financially. I wouldn’t want to be held down by car repair payments and medical fees after. On another note, being an aunt can be a crazy job at times. Sometimes, you’d have to go against your own sister/brother just to be the ‘cool’ aunt to your nephew or niece. I know, I’m an aunt too!
ReplyDeleteElnora Cowger
You must have all the luck in the world not to get any major injuries after those accidents, Michele! Anyway, I believe you should also advice your nephew about the safety rules on the road. Share him your experience so that he won’t have to experience the same accidents you had in your younger years.
ReplyDeleteBarbie Mauricius
“I wrecked my car the day after I got it! I mean, literally, THE NEXT DAY!!!”—That was so unfortunate. My father drives for more than three decades now and he got into an accident last month. The last time he encountered such was way back. You see, even if you say that you’re a safe and responsible driver, you still never know when you will find yourself in an accident. Having insurance is really helpful especially when you come across an unlucky situation. This will not let you worry about the expenses because it will cover all the damage costs.
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