First Time Dad Let Me Drive

"Shane Moore" (snakesm13) 10/18/2016 at 10:06 • Filed to: None

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The story on the front page made me want to share my story with Oppo. Growing up I did the normal sit in Dad’s lap and steer the truck while we drove around the empty parking lot. But the first time I was in control of the two pedals also was not my brightest moment.

Living on the coast in South Texas, I was spoiled with fishing. One morning we took the boat out fishing, once we were done we headed back to the boat launch. Dad backed the truck and trailer down to the water while I circled in the boat. We loaded the boat on the trailer and my Dad says “Go pull the truck up out of the water.”

I looked at him dumbfounded, He says “ Just put your foot on the brake, put it in drive and give it some gas.”

So that is what I did:

Put my left foot on the brake.

Put it in drive.

Push the gas with my right foot.

It didn’t move so my Dad yells “Give it more gas!”

So I did, that 90's Extended Cab F150 threw crushed shell all over the boat, my Dad, other boaters. I spun the back tires for a good 30 seconds thinking I was going to slip back down the boat launch. I eventually understood what was happening and pulled my foot off the brake and successfully removed the boat from the water but man was that a good lesson learned. One that Mom still doesn’t know about to this day.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Shane Moore 10/18/2016 at 10:10

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“Father inadvertently teaches son to do burnout, arrested”

CalzoneGolem > Shane Moore 10/18/2016 at 10:10

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When my daughter was 10 I had her drive down our public dirt road in broad daylight. I did not post it to social media and the state trooper that lives on our road did not taze us.

Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > Shane Moore 10/18/2016 at 10:17

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Man, I feel for you...I can’t think of a worse time to put a kid in the driver’s seat for the first time...I’ve seen seasoned drivers eff up pulling a boat out of the water.

Shane Moore > CalzoneGolem 10/18/2016 at 10:23

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Luckily this was early 90's so social media was me telling my friend down the street about it while playing SNES.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer 10/18/2016 at 10:31

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On the other hand, throwing off the deep end etc...

OPPOsaurus WRX > Shane Moore 10/18/2016 at 12:05

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i was taking my old explorer off a set of ramps and forgot to take the 2X4 out from behind the wheel that was keeping the truck from rolling away. I gave it a little gas, and a little more and a little more and then the 2x4 launched under the truck, under my fathers truck between my mothers legs, into the garage and to the far wall. It could have been bad if she was just a little to either side.

The Compromiser > Shane Moore 10/18/2016 at 20:19

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The first time my dad let me drive I was 5. It was a school bus. Full of kids. In a parking lot leaving a venue.

Technically I was racing dirt bikes when I was 4 though so...