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Yeah, I groaned and moaned about teh expired registration, but I didn't make a huge fuss over it as it was my fault. In the case of that ticket I mentioned that was thrown out it was the insurance companies fault for not sending me my card. They sent me a card when I put teh car on the policy, the card was good for a couple days. They sent me that card instead of the card for the new 6 month term. The fact that the judge dismissed that ticket should say something about it.
I think it's like that in many states. They will let anyone pbutt. My friend is a driving school teacher and he knows some of the people at the DMV. They will always pbutt middle-aged people regardless of how unsafe tehir driving is. The reasoning is that those people need a car to support themselves. Gee whiz, younger people don't need a car to support themselves? College isn't free! Rent isn't free!
In any case, people should only be given a drivers license after completing a real road test and performing very well on it. Not the ridiculous drive around the block and parallel park things they do here. My ex should not have gotten her drivers license. After she got her license we spent a lot of time working on teaching her how to drive before she ever drove on her own.
My current girlfriend pbutted her test despite parallel parking on a snow bank. I guess I can see pbutting a person if their parallel parking is the only questionable part. People will generally avoid parallel parking if they don't know how to. I still have to teach her to drive though. She got her first car a week or two ago, an '86 Monte Carlo. The first time she drove it on her own she ran into a sign pole and messed up the pbuttenger side fender and door. She said the car stalled, she started it and it lurched forward. I figured maybe the neutral safety switch was broke and in a panick she started it in gear. Not the case, it will not even start in neutral, must be in park. She is clueless about driving. When driving with her I have had to correct her countless time about not turning the wheel quickly enough. She will turn very wide, turning onto the wrong side of the road or nearly hitting parked cars (if I were to not say anything). I don't think she should have been pbutted on her test. At least all she hit was a sign and she only messed upa cheapy $700 beater car. Glad we didn 't get her a nice Fox body Mustang as she originally wanted, it woulda been a shame to mess up something with a nice body and nice paint.
I don't know how she got the thing to stall. I drove the car when we went out the day and night before when she hit the pole and it drove quite nicely other than a slightly rough idle. I have since rebuilt the carb and given it a tune-up. It runs much nicer, but the idle is still rough and it smells rich. It's the damned computer controlled carb and distributor that's making it run rough. If it were a normal engine I would have it running very smoothly and cleanly by now. Oh well, it's jsut a cheapo beater car. It doesn't stall though (even when I've tried to make it stall) and now runs better when cold and has more power. She's afraid to drive now after hitting that sign, so her car is still in my driveway. I don't think she'll be driving alone for a little while (a good thing IMO). She drove us to Subway today and did decent, except that park where someone was pulling out of his driveway and waiting in the middle of the street for someone else to pull out. She stopped and then started slowly driving forward adn to the right towards a telephone pole. I had to tell her to stop and wait. Bah, she'll figure it out eventually. At least now she's stopped getting upset when I tell her I'd rather her not drive alone yet. She was quite upset when I told her I don't want her driving her dad's rest trap Buick with bad brakes (hardly any pad left, grinds sometimes, badly warped rotors), a completely shot suspension, worn steering that pulls hard to the right, and an engine that hesitates and stutters and time you hit the gas at more than a snails pace (acts like a bad accelerator pump, but it's fuel injected). Her dad doesn't take care of cars. Bah, in any case, too many bags of worms to mention.
Hey, that cop was cool. He just smiled and waved as I cruised on past with smoke still coming off the tires and the police station totally engulfed in smoke. :) No harm done and no danger, so no problem I suppose.
Cory
