Adventures in driving

[pegkerr]

Fiona and her boyfriend Mitch went to a play at her high school last night. While they were there, freezing rain began to fall. We got a call from her fifteen minutes before her curfew, informing us that they were fine and the car was mostly fine, but they had slithered into a snowbank on their way down a hill.

I was impressed and appreciative that she had called right away to let us know they were going to be delayed. I was even more impressed that Mitch then called his dad and told him he didn't think he wanted to risk driving any further, and could his dad come and pick him up?

A friend following shortly behind stopped and helped lever them out of the snowbank, and then brought Fiona home. Mitch's dad, unfortunately, got into a three car-tap-the-bumper incident on the way to pick up Mitch, but everything seemed fine, no harm done...until a 17 year old girl who was going much too fast for the conditions plowed into their rear end as they were all out exchanging insurance information. Bummer.

Mitch called shortly afterwards to make sure that Fiona made it home safely. As Mitch's dad and I discussed in church this morning, we were all impressed with the good judgment they displayed last night.

Comments

[john]

Good on them! I wish that there were more stories of "young people behave in very sensible manner! Story at 11", but I guess that doesn't make good media hype.