No. Like a cop flashing his badge to get preferential treatment or a politician using his influence to gain special favors for family smacks of abuse of power, for which people can and should be sued.

Or maybe she’s a shrill, entitled little princess who’s used to her daddy getting what she wants using that badge.

I found at least three of them on my drive to work this morning.

Agreed. It’s like when you learn to skateboard the first thing they teach you is how to fall safely. Same applies to life. If you never learn how to recover from failure you’re just going to fail even harder.

I fully believe in tough love. If my kids can’t hack it I’m going to let them fail. They’re all under 5 right now so they pretty much fail at everything all the time anyway, but when they’re older that’ll still apply.

Dumb things is right. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen, though.

Yikes. My instructor never gave 100% on any driving test, but she was up-front about it. “No one is a perfect driver. You do everything right and you’ll get a 98%.” That’s what I got. Works for me.

My driving test instructor had a similar rule, but it was about stop signs. She said “If any part of your car crosses the white line at a stop sign or stop light before you’ve come to a full and complete stop, you fail. No questions asked. Test over. Better luck next time.” And she was serious. It didn’t happen to me,…

Why on earth would a former state trooper want a thrice-failed driver just given her license? Sounds like a scumbag.

One of the practice cars at my high school’s driver’s ed class had a broken driver’s seat that couldn’t move back so it was stuck in the far-forward position. The teacher just assigned a pair of Asian sisters to drive that one since they were 5'2" and 5'3". Didn’t bother them.

I was in a driver’s ed class with a guy from another country who had almost never even ridden in a car. We got through the classroom stuff and out to the “range” where you practice parking, turns, etc. in a controlled environment. This kid got behind the wheel with his partner who had his foot on the passenger-side…

Now you’re getting it.

That’s true. In that case you’ll have to make it about him rather than the other person since he doesn’t seem to care about them at all. “Hey, boss, just FYI I heard about an exec at another company who got a major sexual harassment lawsuit for this type of thing. Maybe keep that in mind so that doesn’t happen to you.”

We actually have a couple of regulars, so it’s not so much a matter of finding them as it is the additional work it takes to get them up, out the door, drop them off, and THEN make the 25 minute commute to her 7am shift. Then she has to pick them up after work (which usually isn’t until around 8:30), take them home,…

I’m glad it made you feel good. Her friend has been through some troubled times in her marriage and with her family and those dinners could be very healing times, but if the kids are there it’s all about preschool, diapers, nap times, etc. In fact my wife had it all lined up to go to one of these dinners tonight and I…

Necessary: trust.

Well said, sir.

Yeah, it definitely isn’t a solution for everyone and I’d wager that people who aren’t on solid footing in their relationship who try this would just find a wedge driven between them. I don’t think it’s a fix for a broken marriage, but a highly-functional one could potentially benefit.

I said what I wanted to say to you.

I can relate to that. I’m the type that can easily spend days or weeks by myself without a problem. My wife and kids are my major tie to the rest of society. Without them I’d very likely find a job I could do from home and never emerge again.