Daughter swears she didn't run over anything

[bacongrease]

  Well,when there are trust issues about little things,  they carryover to larger issues.
 Apparently.    loo

[frozengoose]

We did talk to her about not running over motorcyclists. She said don't worry Guzzi riders are like skunks. Too fat, slow and the smell is hard to wash off!

I bet if she's as nice as you say, she'd never say anything like that, must be one of your old jokes.
Besides, everyone knows Guzzi riders are more like raccoons, curious, shifty, and hard to pin down, or something like that:)

[moto-uno]

  You sure your daughter wasn't making reference to Harley riders  Peter

[SIR REAL ED]

So here's a little more about my daughter.

When we bought the car she agreed to pay me back the $3,000 I loaned her over 24 months. At the time April 2018 she was a junior in HS working part time at a pet shop making barely over minimum wage. Part time was 30+ hours a week. The 1st month she handed me $300 and said she like to pay "junior" off faster if that was okay. 9 month later her debt was paid + she also covers her insurance payment. After junior was paid off she's continued to give me at least $300 per month to hold for her so when it comes time for a new car she'll have a nice down payment.   

After she graduated HS in June of 2019 she got a full time job working 6pm to 6am as a nurses aide in a dementia unit of a local retirement home. Her job tasks include cleaning, diapering, bathing, feeding and moving patients twice her weight. She works 12 hour shifts 3 nights on 2 nights off 2 nights on 3 nights off. She works overtime when available, covers shifts when others call in sick. Did I mention she has 22 screws in her back and is about 5'-2" and skinny as a rail and has other afflictions that most people would beg to be on disability for. She loves caring for "her people" and is the least selfish person you'd ever meet. I also asked her that since she's working full time its time to start a retirement fund and asked what she'd like to contribute per month. She said would $500 be enough or should I put in more. I know adults with good paying job who think they are doing good socking away $40 per pay into retirement. Not many 19 year olds even know what retirement is.

Around home she cleans up around the house, does laundry, buys some groceries and regularly mows our lawn as well as the neighbors that his lawn is 10x as big as ours. If she uses my truck and it has less than 1/2 tank of gas she'll fill it up with her money even if she only drove 15 miles round trip to work. She has a credit card that if she uses it will immediately come home and transfer money from her savings and pay it off. She hates owing people money and has never asked me for a penny in her entire 19 years 3 weeks she's be around.

As for her paying for the damage to her car  the only reason I cannot is she would not let me.


We did talk to her about not running over motorcyclists. She said don't worry Guzzi riders are like skunks. Too fat, slow and the smell is hard to wash off!

 

Sounds like an outstanding young lady!  You should be proud of her.  Daughter of a Moto Guzzi rider who enjoys caring for elderly people with dementia?  That sounds like part of god's plan to me.

I wonder if one of the questions during the job interview was "What do you know about caring for people with dementia?"
Perhaps the answer than got her the job was "Well, my dad rides a Moto Guzzi..... so I'm used to dealing with some of that already!"

[Perazzimx14]

Sounds like an outstanding young lady!  You should be proud of her.  Daughter of a Moto Guzzi rider who enjoys caring for elderly people with dementia?  That sounds like part of god's plan to me.

I wonder if one of the questions during the job interview was "What do you know about caring for people with dementia?"
Perhaps the answer than got her the job was "Well, my dad rides a Moto Guzzi..... so I'm used to dealing with some of that already!"

Proud is not the word. She is my idol!  I can only hope someday I am 1/2 the person she is! The world is a better place having her in it!

[SIR REAL ED]

Proud is not the word. She is my idol!  I can only hope someday I am 1/2 the person she is! The world is a better place having her in it!

She is kinda my hero already and I don't even know her! 

At that age, I like to get the young people in my life a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the translation by Maxwell Staniforth speaks best to me.  IMSMO, the greatest how-to book for living life I have yet to come across.  Others such as As a Man Thinketh by James Allen come close.

If you ever want to get her a gift she will remember for the rest of her life, get her a consult with Patty Summers where Patty talks to one or more of her animals.  Website: psanimal.com.  It will blow her away.  Patty's book Talking with the Animals is one of the greatest chick books/animal lover books I have ever read.  She will love it.  After she reads it, I have a question for her.

You tell that little gem that she has more fans than just you.  You are absolutely right, people like her make the world a better place.  Most of us are just along for the ride. 

I am always amazed what young people with excellent parents can accomplish.  She is a reflection of you and her mother, whether your collective modesty allows either of you to  admit it or not.
 
Best wishes to you and yours!

[Perazzimx14]

New wheel and tire were installed and took it for a test ride to find unsurprisingly that it was out of alignment. Instructed daughter yesterday morning not to drive Junior until he got fixed up.

In short order since the local Hyundai dealership was not open yet she took it upon herself to text the 24/7 line asking them to call her to check availability. After several hours she did not get a call so she called them back. I called her about noontime to she how she made out with Hyundai and she said they were  booked for 2 weeks so she called around to other shops and found one that could get he in the same day. Her appointment was at 1:30pm and by 2:15pm she was back on road. When I got home there was $140 waiting for me to cover the cost of her wheel & tire and she paid for the alignment when she was there.

   

[oldbike54]

 

 Dusty

[pressureangle]

She noticed it but she's not admitting it. There's no way she couldn't notice something like that.

I'm in with this. My 32 year old daughter now sits around with me and laughs at the shit she tried to lie about. She learned quick though, because for events like this, I just handed her the phone and told her to figure out how to deal with it. It the events where I fixed something, I charged her the standard shop rate of $100/hr.

To mitigate the dickhead factor, I'll acknowledge that she drove my cars on my insurance. Once she owned her own stuff, the damage magically disappeared.