Apocalypse Now

So I was thinking the other day, gee Adam is almost 17 years old. I'm surprized that he's not driving yet. His mom told him that he had to hold off because of his knee surgery, but he's had a clean bill of health for a while now. So Tuesday morning, I asked him if he was going to take driver's ed. Yes, he said, he's been looking into driver's ed on line and he can sign up for only $99. So I said, show it to me sometime and we'll see. That night he brings his laptop into my sitting room to show me the web site. I tell him we need to check it out with the DMV, so he clicks a few buttons and says that the DMV also offers driver's ed over the internet. This I have to see. It turns out that he was in dmv.com, not dmv.gov. I went to the proper web site and looked at the requirements. The dmv just says 30 hours--doesn't say where.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Adam was navagating around the driver's ed online program he started in and he said, here's a link to show that this course is approved by the dmv. Sure enough, they had scanned an official looking letter saying that this program is approved by the California DMV. So for $99 I tell Adam to go ahead and sign up.

Wednesday, Adrienne gets two e-mails to let her know that Adam has signed up for driver's ed on line. That night, Adam tells us that he doesn't have to pay until he does 20% of the course and he starts the course on line. He tells me that he had completed the first chapter--but it took him a while, because he took a nap in the middle. I put in my credit card info to pay for it.

Thursday, Adrienne got an e-mail that said if Adam finishes the whole course in five days, we get 25% off. That night Adam said he was on chapter two and he gave me a blow by blow of the information covered. It sounds pretty good. About an hour later he came out to say that he was now in the middle of chapter four. So I'm feeling pretty good about this program and then I think, omg Adam is going to be driving soon.

p.s. he's growing his mustache again just like a real grown up, of course for fun he also told a girl in his class that all his hair just fell out the last time he got it cut and he thought is was so funny she believed him. Stupidity is still the height of hilarity.