{"id":4631,"date":"2012-01-11T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:17:28","slug":"l-plates-are-on-teenwolf-is-off-sob-snotter-wail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2012\/01\/l-plates-are-on-teenwolf-is-off-sob-snotter-wail\/","title":{"rendered":"L Plates are on. Teenwolf is off. Sob. Snotter. Wail."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This wee pudding behind a wheel……get me the smelling salts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well it has finally happened.
\nTeenwolf Is learning to drive.<\/p>\n

My baby is behind the wheel of a car ,<\/p>\n

Bring on the vapours.<\/p>\n

He is just 17 and it has been on his mind since he was \u2026well\u2026born actually.<\/p>\n

So when he broke his arm \u00a04 days short of his birthday in November I was very sad but confess as we waited for his plaster cast to set \u00a0part of me did think \u2026well at least he won\u2019t be able to drive for a while.<\/p>\n

Huh!<\/p>\n

No sooner is the plaster off than he is badgering me to take him out.<\/p>\n

He wore me down so off we went. to the Murrayfield Stadium car park which is a vast area with not a soul around.<\/p>\n

As I wemnt over the basics.<\/p>\n

This is a car he rolled his eyes<\/p>\n

That is the clutch I pointed at th clutch he rolled his eyes<\/p>\n

That is the accelorator and the brake isin the middle.<\/p>\n

It was as if I was talking to a man with over 25 years experience on the road. He couldn\u2019t wait for me to shut up so I did.<\/p>\n

As he turned the ignition on he put his foot down \u00a0on the gas with such velocity we did a wheelie I am not sure who got more a shock, him, me, his ears \u00a0or my bowel.<\/p>\n

After a few steering grabs and screams<\/p>\n

\u2018For gods sake Mum don\u2019t scream at me \u2018 he screamed at me.<\/p>\n

\u2018Well it\u2019s hard not to when you see your life flashing before you!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Dad won\u2019t be like this\u2019;<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right he will be worse\u2019<\/p>\n

So after going round about 25 times he got the hang of the clutch and the fact if you go round a corner at anything other than\u00a0\u00a0 crawl you are likely to skid, topple or crash.<\/p>\n

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His first official lesson was the following day.<\/p>\n

He was out there with a brave brave man called Stephen \u00a0for 2 hours.<\/p>\n

2 hours!<\/p>\n

He drove from Crammond to Letih..<\/p>\n

I was in shock when he told me<\/p>\n

\u2018On the road?\u2019 I asked<\/p>\n

\u2018Yes where else ?\u2019 \u00a0the indignant response.<\/p>\n

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So not only have late night clubs and wild woman become a regular reason to wake up and worry now we can add the potential passing of the test and car napping my wee rustmobile to go cruising.<\/p>\n

But I will not be foiled. I have a plan.<\/p>\n

My options I outline below.<\/p>\n

Make sure there is no petrol\u00a0 in the tank\u00a0 after all its flammable and therefore deemed dangerous.<\/p>\n

Sell\u00a0 it.<\/p>\n

Burn\u00a0 it.<\/p>\n

Pay someone to steal it. (a joke ofifcer a joke)<\/p>\n

Buy a bicycle ? Nope worse than a car.<\/p>\n

I know what ! I’ll put on an eposide of Top Gear! One look at Clarkson should put him off for life. No he quite likes him – unbelievable really.<\/p>\n

So we have come up with the ultimate deterrant.\u00a0 The long suffering husband and I are going to buy an Inspector Clouseau car to use as advertsiing for the restaurant<\/a> and brand it up as a giant haggis….well maybe a raost haunch of venison – either way a teenager driving a themed tiny car around the streets of Edinburgh means he’ll be on shank’s pony for a wee while longer yet….<\/p>\n

Phew.<\/p>\n

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  Well it has finally happened. Teenwolf Is learning to drive. My baby is behind the wheel of a car , Bring on the vapours….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,77],"tags":[1584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}