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, sleep, cars, girls , girls...i am enjoying being a teen personally. 
, sleep, cars, girls , girls...i am enjoying being a teen personally. 
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Stereotyped teenagers
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Are you in North Carolina?
And please do not call yourself a good driver. You may be a good 16 year old driver but you still are a very inexperience and crappy driver. It takes years of driving before you can call your self a good driver.
Thinking you are a good driver is what will get you in trouble. Case and point. My sister who is currently 17 her personality and her nature she should be a better driver than me. She not a risk taker and age 17 she is a much better driver than I was at that time but she is no where close to my current skill level of driving. I am 24 years old. I have had my DL since I was 16. I have a lot of years of experience on her. So while she is more likely to do more things right by the book (less speed, blinker and so on) she still more likely to get into a wreak because she does not have the skills to just things that happen on the road. I have the experience and like I said early it takes 5 years to get to that point. Now the difference in skill between some one who have 5 years of driving and 20+ years of driving is pretty small. Now some one who have 5 years of driving between some one who has 4 it is noticeable.
OMG, thank you for mentioning that. Us teenagers don't have rights. I hate that. My mom always brings up that when it comes to freedom of speech per se. " We can do it because we're adults and you don't have rights as a kid." BS. The Constitution protects me from the day I was born. I have the same freedom of speech rights as they do. I think I am going to start another civil rights movement. Who is with me?
you do not have rights. You do not have freedom of speech. Also you do not understand freedom of speech. All it means is the GOVERNMENT and ONLY the government can not stop you from writing about something. Parents are another matter.
You do not have the right to vote nor a long list of other rights. Face it under the age of 18 you do not have any rights. You parents control all your rights.
Young, fun, dumb, and full of cum. (17)
And now following up on that quote, I love drugs, sex and music, and I have GREAT grades. The only non-stereotypical part is that I related entirely with my mother.
And now following up on that quote, I love drugs, sex and music, and I have GREAT grades. The only non-stereotypical part is that I related entirely with my mother.
Well In Spain teenagers are said to be in "La edad del pavo" wich means in the turkey age..I really don't know why but It is really annoying.
I will say most teenagers are horrible horrible horrible drivers. Mostly because they want to look cool, show off, or they are just still too immature to have their license. I really hate people that drive like that, I am 17 and when I see people burn out constantly I just wonder how bad of fuel economy they are getting and how they are ruining their tires and other components of their cars. My car didn't even have the ability to do so (4600lbs + not a lot of power + AWD).
I am such a trend setter in my school though:
10/30: I hit a deer and total my car
10/31: A kid in my grade doesn't look and pulls out in front of a crane vehicle and totals his car, had it been another few inches he would be dead.
11/3: My friend rear ends my other friend (supposedly sliding on ice... when its 60 degrees out), both their cars are totaled
11/4: My friend is driving with her parents in their suburban 2500 and they get hit by a drunk driver head on, totaling the car, drunk driver I believed died, her family was fine but her dad broke his knee cap.
11/5: Girl at my school goes mental and throws stones and keys another girls car due to a love triangle. (not really related but I'd thought I'd share)
All of that in less then a week.
I would say teenagers are cocky, stupid, don't see through things, have little respect for other people and their property, and some have little understanding/recognition of cause & effect.
I am such a trend setter in my school though:
10/30: I hit a deer and total my car
10/31: A kid in my grade doesn't look and pulls out in front of a crane vehicle and totals his car, had it been another few inches he would be dead.
11/3: My friend rear ends my other friend (supposedly sliding on ice... when its 60 degrees out), both their cars are totaled
11/4: My friend is driving with her parents in their suburban 2500 and they get hit by a drunk driver head on, totaling the car, drunk driver I believed died, her family was fine but her dad broke his knee cap.
11/5: Girl at my school goes mental and throws stones and keys another girls car due to a love triangle. (not really related but I'd thought I'd share)
All of that in less then a week.
I would say teenagers are cocky, stupid, don't see through things, have little respect for other people and their property, and some have little understanding/recognition of cause & effect.
Oh, but I do stay very attentive while driving, especially in places where there's stop lights, brake lights, intersections with cars ready to pull out. And once I was driving to work and I was in a 2lane left turn lane. My left arrow turned green so I turned, and there in my lane, facing me!!!, was a little mexican woman in her car. I was so freaked out I swerved into the other lane, and I guess the guy in the (right)left turn lane saw it too, because he already slowed down to let me over. While I didn't look before swerving over, I would have MUCH rather side swiped a car than gone head first into another.
And as far as the bad merges go, I have never ever ever been cut off or had to slam on my breaks for some idiot merging that was a teenager. Every time it's been someone older, old, or just plain stupid.
Remember.
I live in the south, and it is a huge stereotype that southerners can't drive.
(I'm not a southerner.)
That stereotype stays true about 95% of the time.
I have been driving for 2 years, btw.
I mean yeah I'm not the best driver in the world, but I hate that people look down on me because of my experience. I think I'm a more attentive driver than my mom, sometimes.
But like I said you are still are a rookie driver. Yeah you may be attentive in those area but still a long ways from a experience driver. While you may be more attentive than you mom in some of those areas you mom is still a better driver. Reason for it is because she her subconscious can handle a larger share of the driving and filter out the information better.
Your eye do not move around as much as an experience driver. It something that just takes years to build.
You live in NC I know from experince that some of the drivers there are crap. But still try dealing with traffic from big city traffic where it moves like a living body. You have to be able to be part of that living body not to cause a problem.
I will rightful look down on your driving for a while because of your lack of experience you are still years away from being a skilled driver. Thinking other wise is well stupid. That means you have to put a lot more or you active attention to driving that lets say some one like your mom or me. Your subconscious just can not handle it yet and has not gain the skilled required of it yet.
I took a drivers Ed course, I had a 4.5 in high school, and in college a 4.0.. I have never gotten into a wreck.. my insurance is $230 a month.. I tried everything!
When I said I asked my ins. lady I meant basically the big wig of the place around where I live. The one who should know some of the stats and such
sorry for kind of taking over the thread, I'll stop now but I just disagree with that stereotype in fact my mom AND dad have gotten pulled over more times than me since I started driving
(I do speed, however only in the same places/times...not idiotic like through town -_-) < god forbid their son correct them..ANYWAYS.... Some other stereotypes are loud mouthed, talk-backers, who have no regard for authority and love to rebel. We are also notorious for drinking too (well where I come from....good thing I have only done it once, and the first time was just recently
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Welcome to the world of statistics. It a proven fact that teenagers on average are the worse drivers on the road. They are the most likely to get into a wreck and make stupid risk. The reason unmarried under 21 males are the worse driver is because of the lack of experience mix with they are risk takers who think they are hot stuff is just a bad combination that leads to lots problems and makes them very high risk.
Yes it sucks I just listed ways you can get your reduced. Another thing you can do to reduce it is if you are more than 150 miles from home you get a discount for it. Also something we did with mine is we got the 150+ miles from home and change the location for the base rate. Where I go to college the base rate for insurance here is lower than where I am from. That took another good dent out of it.
Yes you may be a better than average teenage driver but you still are in the very high risk group because statics proves you age group is the worse drivers on the road.
Now I am not sure what my exact rates are right now because they are covered in so many discounts and mix in with my brother and sister that it is hard to pick them out. My parents tell me it is 160 a month for me and I am the cheapest of the 3 kids. I have my Defesive driving discount, I am over 21, A student discount, base rate change, 150+ miles from home, multi car, and the fact they have multiple insurance and lastly they been with the company for over 20 years so that also messes with the amount.
haha this reminds me of the stereotype that teenagers think they are always right lol
lol if you ask a person if they are a good driver, i bet 10/10 will say they are even when not.....
alright fine!
I'm not a good driver.
But I'll say I'm good for my age. Can I at least have that?
And my mom has never been in a wreck, so she is a good driver, but I do question her. My dad only got in wrecks when he was younger because he was drunk, but then again he worked at the Milwaukee brewery so what else can you expect?
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And yeah I live in North Carolina.
It's... interesting.
I'm not a good driver.
But I'll say I'm good for my age. Can I at least have that?
And my mom has never been in a wreck, so she is a good driver, but I do question her. My dad only got in wrecks when he was younger because he was drunk, but then again he worked at the Milwaukee brewery so what else can you expect?
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And yeah I live in North Carolina.
It's... interesting.
I would not question your mom so much and try to learn from her. You while may be a good driver for you age are still a crappy driver and you have a lot you can learn from you parents who both are much better drivers than you.
There is a valid reason for that. Teenagers like to emulate the people they admire. When I was a kid we wore heavy metal tee-shirts, flannels, and what not to emulate rock stars. Kids nowadays emulate a much more low-key, but highly respectable profession. They are emulating plumbers. Now if we teach them to flush...
If you were anything like me
You will refuse all the good advice offered to you by your elders because you think it doesn't pertain to you, then 10 years later look back on it and say "damn, that was some good advice"
And of course, if you find yourself offering teens advice that you yourself didn't/wouldn't listen to as a teen, then you finally lost the right to call yourself young(I'm 27 for what its worth)
You will refuse all the good advice offered to you by your elders because you think it doesn't pertain to you, then 10 years later look back on it and say "damn, that was some good advice"
And of course, if you find yourself offering teens advice that you yourself didn't/wouldn't listen to as a teen, then you finally lost the right to call yourself young(I'm 27 for what its worth)