Well I don't have a cabby anymore.

[Briano1234]

This Tuesday, my son finally got off his butt, and decided to take the License Exam (behind the wheel).

So all last week end we were practicing parallel parking and backing up..... I used 2 cones in a school parking lot and made them 1 1/2 car lengths apart...Like backing up my driveway isn't hard to do....

We had scheduled the appointment for 4:20pm... we arrived on time.

We had all the necessary paperwork....
And drove the car to the proper spot.

When the examiner came out, he saw the cabby, shined up for BAP, top down, boot on. and he said, "A beautiful day, and a rag-top for my last test of the day, it don't get much better...thank you.." We popped the hood and said, yep the car is clean....

So with a quick check of the lights and signals, off they went.

I was nervous....

My son came back inside and said I got it.....

He scored a 94, two other the other inspectors said that was unbelievable for a "first timer" let alone a "older" driver.... I forgot to tell him that he needed to use the "turn signals" when parallel parking....

Chris said "Dad, parallel parking here is a breeze, I had another 10 feet of room...." to which I replied...." Explorers, and SUV's need more room...aren't you glad I shortened it?"

So since Tuesday, I haven't had a cabby......he is either driving it to school, or running amok.....

But I did Jump his butt when I saw the grease on the seat......he cleaned it up right away...and re-sprayed the protectorant....

[CalAltaDubber]

Brian, I fear you will get even more calls that say "Dad, there's sompthing wrong wit the car".

[kuklaki]

Yeah, you're going to have to get yourself one more Cabby so you can have one Maybe an orange one for your other Irish colour

[kamzcab86]

You scared the heck out of me with that thread title, Brian! Here's hoping your son takes as good of care of the car as you do!

Yours truly got a 97 on the driving test... driving a stick-shift (with the top up )... in SoCal... In SoCal (back then anyway), it was either parallel parking or performing a K-turn (aka, 3-point U-turn); luckily, I got the K-turn.