Listen and Learn

I've been warning my daughter about the dangers of drinking and driving since, well, conception. She's 24 now and still doesn't drive, but when she does I think she'll know what and what not to do behind the wheel.

As a parent, I couldn't help but tune in to the conversation going on between two young men on the bus recently. One had just gotten his license, and the other was about to go for his permit. The first boy talked about how cool it was to pull up to the McDonald's drive-through in his father's Mustang and rev the engine to elicit a smile from the girl at the order window. The second boy responded with an appropriate amount of wistful envy; then the first started talking a little more seriously.