Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Ticket to ride

One of those moments of truth for Caz.  The new MA state laws prevents newly licensed drivers, under a certain age, from driving passengers who are outside of their immediate family.  At least when Caz gets his license, he can drive his little brother to school.  But I digress.
     Caz has friends who are getting their license.  However, due to that law, they are not in a position to drive the group anywhere.  To some extent, they are still house bound.  They need to rely on their parents for rides.  But that group is testing the waters.  We have already spoken to two of them about adhering to the law.  It is between us for now, but if they push it, the other parents will be brought in.  One parent will ground their kid for life, so I think he got the message.  I just hope Caz heard it too.
     Caz had his own mishap.  He went to the movies with a group of kids.  The driver was just about the exit the period where passengers are limited to family.  Just about.  But not yet.  And that is the point.  The law is the law.  The deadline is the deadline.  If we can't trust Caz to adhere to laws as a passenger, how can we trust him as a driver.  That is the discussion we had with Caz.  He didn't agree but I think he got the point.  He better have.

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