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Thread ID: 113204	2010-10-09 18:37:00	Don't have kids	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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1143014	2010-10-10 01:45:00	Interestingly I have no idea how you get $8 on the bus. 2 child 6 stage tickets (Papakura - Britomart) on the train at $4 each. (Being at school has its advantages :D)	pcuser42 (130)
1143015	2010-10-10 02:05:00	And how old do you have to be to get a child ticket?	Cato (6936)
1143016	2010-10-10 02:08:00	Well I can bike to school in about 5min. And work in about 3min (Including waiting for the lights) Takes about 5-10 min to get into town though. :p	xyz823 (13649)
1143017	2010-10-10 02:08:00	Your car was free?,and has no running costs apart from fuel? No, if I wanted free I'd have walked.	Cato (6936)
1143018	2010-10-10 02:13:00	And how old do you have to be to get a child ticket? All you need is a valid student ID and you get the child prices.	pcuser42 (130)
1143019	2010-10-10 02:18:00	All you need is a valid student ID and you get the child prices. Not too hard to forge.	xyz823 (13649)
1143020	2010-10-10 03:50:00	Never give your kid a car When your son has to take a push-bike, bus or train to work, perhaps at antisocial hours, or look for another job closer to home, he will start to realise how generous you were and how stupid he was. He's 32. He, until I gave him my car (and transferred it into his name), did take a pushbike or walk to work. Admittedly the job he has now was possible because he got the car, he got the job after. Still what he did with the car teaches him a lesson - not me. I know what kids are like. 32 yr old ones or not. I only paid $1500 for it - 4 years ago anyway. Now he'll have to regret his actions. Mistake made. I'm more disgusted with his other half actually. Went round again today and her attitude (not to do with the car) makes me want to perform violence. I'll restrain myself though......	pctek (84)
1143021	2010-10-10 04:15:00	He's 32. He, until I gave him my car (and transferred it into his name), did take a pushbike or walk to work. Admittedly the job he has now was possible because he got the car, he got the job after. YOUR KID IS 32? THIRTY TWO??????????? :eek: My folks had me on my own before I was even 20 :(	Cato (6936)
1143022	2010-10-10 04:46:00	YOUR KID IS 32? THIRTY TWO??????????? :eek: My folks had me on my own before I was even 20 :( Son is 36 and works nights as security at a bar in town. YES HE LIVES AT HOME! We share my car, he uses it at night and I use it in the day. Works fine. I really have sympathies for someone in Auckland though. Hang in there pctek, don't lose your cool with the son's partner. He has to sort it and the sooner the better! OMG have I become an agony aunt? LL :eek:	lakewoodlady (103)
1143023	2010-10-10 05:53:00	Never give your kid a car, they will have no commitment to it and you will end up paying for their indiscretions or carelessness . As for the lack of a seatbelt, the name 'Darwin' comes to mind . I won't allow my car (used for business and family) to be driven by anybody else except in the case of a medical emergency . Mrs T has her own car and my son & daughter bought a car between them . We insured it via our insurance company, they pay the costs, and the excess/ loss of no claims bonus if they have an accident . I gave them both sufficient driving lessons to get them over the basics without learning too many of my bad habits, then handed them on to an instructor to polish them up . We gave both 4 lessons prepaid, the rest were on them . So far my daughter has had two incidents, one a carpark argument with a post (driving instructor didn't explain that the front and rear steering behaves differently when reversing) and the other (recently mentioned here) a slow-speed collision with a parked car when her windscreen flash-froze after Auckland's coldest night in many years, a phenomenon I have never seen before in over 40 years of driving . Any way, she's paid for the increase in the insurance, and the loss of no claims bonus . Careful as she is, we'd have paid a lot more by now if she was not constantly aware that she is financially responsible for her actions on the road . When your son has to take a push-bike, bus or train to work, perhaps at antisocial hours, or look for another job closer to home, he will start to realise how generous you were and how stupid he was . Cheers Billy 8-{) So have you got your child/s car insured under your name?	plod (107)
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