I don't know if this is news media induced paranoia, or what!
Every Friday night my wife and I take our daughters (age 11 & 12) to the YMCA for "kid's night out". It's a chance for the kids to go swimming, hang out with their friends, etc., in a safe chaperoned situation, while we can go out to dinner or whatever. Anyway, one or both daughters usually invite a friend, and we give them a ride, too. Tonight, though, my wife is taking one daughter to a minor league baseball game, so I'm just taking one daughter (and her friend, or so I thought) to the Y in my '79 CJ5.
First, the other girl's mother (this is all 2nd hand, related through my daughter) said she can't go if the Jeep is open, the top has to be on. She heard somebody once fell out of a Jeep or something. Fine, it was raining this morning when I drove to work so the top was on. Then, turns out the mother doesn't want her kid riding in the Jeep at all, she'll meet us there. I'm not sure whether to feel amused, annoyed, insulted, disgusted, or what!
-Dana
Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 instead of a V-8.
Every Friday night my wife and I take our daughters (age 11 & 12) to the YMCA for "kid's night out". It's a chance for the kids to go swimming, hang out with their friends, etc., in a safe chaperoned situation, while we can go out to dinner or whatever. Anyway, one or both daughters usually invite a friend, and we give them a ride, too. Tonight, though, my wife is taking one daughter to a minor league baseball game, so I'm just taking one daughter (and her friend, or so I thought) to the Y in my '79 CJ5.
First, the other girl's mother (this is all 2nd hand, related through my daughter) said she can't go if the Jeep is open, the top has to be on. She heard somebody once fell out of a Jeep or something. Fine, it was raining this morning when I drove to work so the top was on. Then, turns out the mother doesn't want her kid riding in the Jeep at all, she'll meet us there. I'm not sure whether to feel amused, annoyed, insulted, disgusted, or what!
-Dana
Wernher von Braun settled for a V-2 instead of a V-8.