Thursday, January 10, 2008

Tough Love

Jane Hambleton bought her 19 year old son a used car over Thanksgiving.
She gave it to him with 2 rules: No booze and always keep it locked.
Assuming it goes without saying that he had to abide by all state laws (don't speed, wear a seatbelt, use a hands free device when talking on the phone), she still allowed other behaviors that perhaps a mother would deem undesirable such as eating potato chips and leaving crumbs or getting roadhead.
When she found a bottle of alcohol under the front seat (her son says a passenger was drinking it) she decided to sell the car. This is the ad she placed in the paper:

"OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet."

She says she sold the car, and received lots of calls congratulating her for her actions. I'm sure she'll get one from noted tough love advocate jusTON.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way.