<p>So I'm at the mall today and I was trying to park and I accidentally kind of scraped the side of my car along the side of the car next to me...I didn't even feel it but luckily there was a "mall cop" who saw it and was able to get me to realize it.</p>
<p>But THEN I was scared because I had people in my car and legally I'm not allowed to drive people until November 6th. But I guess since he was a mall cop and not a regular cop he couldn't bust me on it.</p>
<p>So I gave the cop all of my insurance information and everything and I went home. Luckily, since the damage to the other car was so minor, the owner of the other car isn't going to take any action. So none of my information was even released to him or anything.</p>
<p>I feel so stupid for driving other people now, it's so not worth it. Learn from my mistake, CCer's...don't get pulled under by the "It won't happen to me" mentality. It will, and it will happen when you least expect it.</p>
<p>And if all you're going to tell me is how stupid I was being...stuff it, I already know. To put it the old fashioned way, "I have learned my lesson."</p>
<p>Funny, I witnessed an accident today going back home. The stoplight didn't work so the intersection turned into a bad 4 way stop. I was extra cautious and the car to my left went ahead and was going to make a left turn but out of no where a car from my right slams into the other car. Squeaky brakes. Easily Crushed Metal. It was seriously like a pancake.</p>
<p>Who says it doesn't pay to look both ways many times over?</p>
<p>i see you're a fellow californian. im from sacramento and here the sac pd does NOT care if you have people in your car. its awesome. i drove people around the day i got my license. i know like half a dozen people that got pulled over for running stop signs, speeding, etc with people in their car and never got in trouble.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>The LB police is a little bit iffy on it, I think mostly they depend on the parents to keep their kids from doing stupid crap like that.</p>
<p>That sucks, jespere, it doesn't sound like any kind of fun.</p>
<p>It's funny...my friend Chris crashed his car earlier this morning. XD apparently this is a bad time of the year for cars.</p>
<p>I've been in an accident... I was hit from behind. That really ruined my day. Thank goodness it didn't affect my insurance though!</p>
<p>wanna hear something wierd</p>
<p>freshman year, my brother was driving us to school when we reached a stoplight. my bro sneezed, took his foot off the brake for like 2 seconds, and tapped the car in front of us. it was minor damage (small paint problem), but damage nonetheless. so a report had to be filed, etc. and i knew i was going to be late to school. after about 25 minutes, we were able to go on our way.
literally 25 seconds after we left, about 70 yards from where my bro bumped the car, we stopped at another light. when the light turned green and the cars in front of us started to go, my bro was about to go, but a truck for an electric company rear-ended us because of brake failure, completely destroying the rear of the car, but the truck escaped unscathed. luckily nobody got hurt. when the same cop as before came to look at the damage, he said to my brother something like "omg what did you do now?". my bro had a hard time explaining it to my parents. to make matters worse, it was slushing outside...</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>The police where I live aren't too hard on driving other people, I think. Mostly speeding and running stop lights and stuff like that.</p>
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<p>Lucky. It took the cops 3 hours to arrive. And then the half hour wait after that. And it was the night before an AP exam.</p>
<p>Thats nothing.....</p>
<p>I was pulled over once for going 105MPH on the thruway. When the cop came I thought I would fool him by pretending I did not know English and only spoke Russian. Little did I know the cop was from Moscow and was very fluent in Russian. After 5 minutes of chat he let me go with a warning.</p>
<p>Very lucky for me since I do not have A US driving license only my Russian one.(Not sure how that works in the States?)</p>
<p>BTW: It sucks driving on American Thruways compared to the autobahn.</p>
<p>Speed limits = Boring
Go at whatever speed you want = Good :)</p>
<p>^ Yes, but crashing at 120 mph = bad. Very bad.</p>
<p>^I agree.</p>
<p>XD that reminded me of this camp I went to that was a CSI camp. And one of the "witnesses" to the murder was Russian.</p>
<p>And we were doing Witness interviews and he was talking about going to the airport and he goes, "You Americans are so silly with your airports. Back in Mother Russia there is none of this security. You walk in you say hello, they say hello you get on plane."</p>
<p>XD he was our favorite Witness. The 3rd round we could only bring back 4 witnesses and we brought him back just for fun.</p>
<p>yeah, the autobahn is very scary to me.</p>
<p>i am very proud of myself, because i have never had a ticket or an accident yet, and my mom has had two or three tickets and one accident in the time since i got my license, haha.</p>
<p>Rub my face in it why don't you.</p>
<p>XD j/k.</p>
<p>haha. </p>
<p>now i will probably run into a tree or something next time i get in my car.</p>
<p>i always jinx myself.</p>
<p>LMAO.</p>
<p><em>Knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>I'm so glad I have my full license...I can drive wherever I want, whenever I want, with as many people as my car holds. I've never been in an accident either, but since I live in a rural area there's not too much to hit. I've hit the curb a couple times, though!</p>
<p>i dont have my full license yet, but we get a warning before we get in trouble. so maybe i will stop driving other people if i get my warning. but i will have a full license by the end of september anyway.</p>
<p>I'll technically have my full license November 6th, but ours are Provisional Licenses until we turn 18.</p>
<p>Pssssh.</p>
<p>I've had my full license since March. Full as in ALL privelages.
If I hadn't gotten a full and gotten my license before I turned 17, it wouldn't have been much different (a jr. license here just says you can't drive after 11pm/ before 5am; people in car doesn't matter).</p>
<p>In NY you have a junior license until you're 18 unless you take driver ed, and then you get your full license at 17. I took a lame driver ed course, which I guess was sort of worth it. Mostly it was just a waste of time, though.</p>