Getting your first car is pretty awesome and taking it out on that first drive alone is even better. I remember back when I got my first car. My parents sat me down and gave me all these rules and reminded me of all sort of driving rules, including not texting while driving and no fumbling with the radio while driving. They might as well have been telling me about little blue aliens because that is how much attention I was paying them. All I was thinking about was taking my new car for a spin.
Of course, I got in the car and back out of the driveway slowly, since I knew they were watching me. And instead of heading to movie theater, which is where I told them I was going, I set off to the mall. No way did I want to spend two hours in the theater when I could drive a little further into town and go to the mall.
Getting on the busy freeway was not that bad, so I was feeling pretty good about my driving skills. I decided that I needed a soundtrack for my trip and started looking for good driving music on the radio. I finally found a good song and looked up just in time to see the stopped cars before I hit them.
Despite the fact that I was going a little fast, I managed to get out of the car with just a few bumps and bruises. One of the passengers of the cars in front of me wasn’t so lucky and had a broken arm. I had to exchange car insurance info with everyone while I waited for the police and my parents to arrive on the scene.
As soon as we got home, I was grounded for lying about where I was going and causing the accident. A few weeks later, that grounding was extended because our car insurance did not have enough coverage for the medical bills of all the other people. And since my parents did not have a separate public liability insurance policy, they had to pay out of pocket for all those extra expenses. My parents also made me get a job and turn over all the money to them for the medical bills.