Taylor takes in pit lane, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 2006
I love this photograph because she is wearing a 25 year old Genesis concert shirt that I packed away and never wore.
Shout out to the 50 new student drivers at the high school and the buses stuck in traffic because of them. ;) Is 16 too young to drive? I'm guilty of putting off my teen's driver's education because she still lives like a giggly, wiggly, frolicking puppy. Our conversations lately start out like this:
Teen: "Mom! Guess what! You'll never believe it.... (at which point I interrupt.)
Mom: "Stop (cool and slow like staaap.) Pretend you are behind the wheel of a car, having a calm conversation with your mother who is your passenger."
Teen: "Ok..Mom...something beyond belief happened to your off spring today." (said in the monotone of Steven Wright.)
I don't think she is hyperactive...she's just too damn happy to drive. I've told her a million times that driving is a huge responsibility and that her mother became the queen of stoic accountability the moment she got her license. I'm basically the same person I am now that I was at 16. Serious...aware. I quiz her constantly on her directions. She's doing her homework at the dining room table. "Quick...what direction are you facing?" She slowing lifts her head like a bloodhound sniffing the air. "East" "Noooooo! Are you kidding me?!" (She's facing straight west...the sun is even setting.) Forget trying to make plans with her friends. It takes hours to plan the same amount of hours. What is she going to be like at an intersection?
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