Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Finally, A Responsible Parent!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#1Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:11pm
'Meanest mom on planet' sells son's car
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet."
After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone -- by placing an ad in the local newspaper.
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-whatever2
#2re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:19pm
Go, Mom!
If sonny boy is 19, he's old enough to buy his own car, anyway.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:20pm
That's not resposible, it's stupid. He's 19, there's very few places in the world where 19 year olds are not allowed to drink. There are people out there getting away with proper crimes, gun crime, theft, things so much worse than drinking, and she sells his car? How does that merit congratulations?
I'm not with you on this one.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Updated On: 1/9/08 at 01:20 PM
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#3re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:20pmShe has my vote as Mom of the Year!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#4re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:22pm
Go mom! I love parents who can get all Judge Judy on their kids.
linnie -- it's 21 to drink in the States.
#5re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:23pmAnd if you're counting on mom to buy the car, she can set the rules.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:23pm
vm,
Get a clue.
Did you read the story? She only had TWO RULES; No Liquor, and Keep It Locked. She found liquor in the car.
She did the right thing.
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#7re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:24pmI know SOMMS, that's why I threw in the comment about there being few places where such laws exist. Thanks anyway.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#8re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:24pm
" He's 19, there's very few places in the world where 19 year olds are not allowed to drink."
Well, in this country the age is 21. And there was alcohol in THE CAR, which most likely means that that is where he was drinking it (possibly putting others at risk while driving). Even if it was a passenger drinking it (who was most likely also underage), he was told when given the car that in order to keep it, alcohol was off limits. It's not that much to ask. He's lucky his parents bought him a car in the first place. I don't feel sorry for him. I got a kick out of the story.
And there are greater tragedies than a 19 year old not having a car.
Updated On: 1/9/08 at 01:24 PM
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#9re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:26pm
I must agree blueroses.
And I'd rather not be told to get a clue. Please don't talk down to me. I'm sorry, i didn't see the part about the two rules. I did follow the link, and read most.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#10re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:27pmThen I apologize.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#11re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:28pm
Good for that parent!
In 2006, an estimated 17,602 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30 minutes.
VM, I'd say that's a pretty bad thing. And I'll bet that every mother, father, sister, brother, friend, grandparent, aunt, uncle and cousin of anyone who has been hurt or killed by an alcohol-related accident would agree.
Get MADD!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#12re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:31pm
Not to worry. Sorry if I was out of place.
I was just coming from my point of view, whether it's wrong or not. I'm 16 years old. I don't drink, I never have, and I've decided that I never will. If I wanted to, however, I could, no problem. My friends all drink, and it irritates me. Seeing 15 and 16 year olds drunk is not funny. Having to clean up after them is even less fun.
Furthermore, I come from a family which hass been affected by alcahol problems at various different times, so I know what it feels like from both ends.
I'm just saying that I've seen people my age fall apart on drugs, hurt themsleves, do awful things. And I've seen them drunk, and I'd much sooner have them pissed than high. That said, most of my friends can't drive yet, so that may not be relevant then.
Apologies.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#13re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:41pm
You need to find some new friends.
And with all of that 'experience', do you still think what the mother has done is wrong, or do you think she's being too hard?
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-whatever2
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#14re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:43pm
I don't know, even reading my own posts I think, why on earth, having said all that, wouldn't you agree? But call me a hypocrite, but my immediate reaction was "That's a little draconian".
I'm not advocating drink driving, or alcholism, I just for some reason didn't think it was the right course of action. However, I hadn't seen that the mother's rules were about no alcohol.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:45pm
"even reading my own posts I think, why on earth, having said all that, wouldn't you agree?"
That's why I was all, like, you know, HUH?!
Here's a hug.
*Hug*
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-whatever2
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#16re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:46pm
I'll take that 'draconian' parenting over this tragedy any day.
edited to add: as long as it makes you stop and think, VM, that's a good thing... 
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 1/9/08 at 01:46 PM
#17re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:47pmShe bought the car, thus she gets to make the rules.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#18re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:49pm
Wow.
I guess that brings it all home.
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-whatever2
#19re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:52pmOh, Addy...1,000 words is a conservative estimate.
#20re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:58pmAs a parent of a 20 year-old driver, plus another turning 17 soon, I agree completely with this parent's actions.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#21re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 2:03pmI agree with the mother also. Especially in this day and age, where it seems like there are very few parents who will even utter the word "no" to their children.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 2:06pmIf the big, grown up 19 year old wants a car, he can go buy one. Then his mommy can't take it away.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#23re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 2:41pm
"Especially in this day and age, where it seems like there are very few parents who will even utter the word "no" to their children."
Or the ones who scream, "My child would NEVER do that!"
That's the reason this story made me happy!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#24re: Finally, A Responsible Parent!
Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:49pm
'Or the ones who scream, "My child would NEVER do that!"'
I love those parents who have perfect children who never do anything wrong and everyone just puts the blame on them "for no reason!" puh-leeze.
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