Is there only the one high school (the one she attends, which doesn't offer driver's ed)? Because if there's another high school that DOES offer driver's ed, maybe some kind of deal could be worked out for her to take it there?

Oh, I hadn't thought of that! She's in the "rich kids'" school (because they had a program for kids with ADHD) and all of her friends were apparently taught by their parents. Maybe there's a course at the other high school she could take.

I've just been chatting with her and I think I've convinced her that there isn't anything more important she can do with her inheritance than buy a car. (She's already spent half of it on clothes and make-up and an expensive iPhone.) When this kid says she NEEDS something, she probably means a lip gloss.

ION, there is a very fit young man on my patio with his shirt off. This is making me nervous. Now I have to go put on a bra.

Oh yeah, for whatever reason, I did driver's ed at a public school not the one I went to.

I just got an email from my massage place about a discount on cupping, if you book during the Olympics. They are very entrepreneurial!

ION, there is a very fit young man on my patio with his shirt off.

Did someone sign you up for Beefcake of the Month?

That is entrepreneurial indeed, Jesse!

Is there only the one high school (the one she attends, which doesn't offer driver's ed)? Because if there's another high school that DOES offer driver's ed, maybe some kind of deal could be worked out for her to take it there?

That's what I had to do--my school stopped offering it so I had to take it through another nearby high school in the summer.

That said, if she's 18 she may just need to study the rules (no class needed) and ...isn't there anyone else who knows her and would let her learn on a rural road somewhere with no traffic??

(In my state(?) if you got some grade (A or B?) on an official drivers Ed course, you still had to take the written test but no driving test!! Otherwise you did both, but there were different rules for over 18 and under 18)

No driving test?!? I would have been even more of a menace on the roads than I was.

Did someone sign you up for Beefcake of the Month?

He is my landscaper and he's about to lay a concrete walkway, and it's very hot.

That said, if she's 18 she may just need to study the rules (no class needed) and ...isn't there anyone else who knows her and would let her learn on a rural road somewhere with no traffic??

That's what she's decided to do (for now): study the rules and then just get in her mom's old car and figure it out. She has no idea how hard this is going to be for her. She's prone to screaming meltdowns when frustrated. I think her mom is not going to agree to let her "just figure it out" on her old manual Subaru.

I need to step away and stop trying to help, but it's hard to listen to my BFF having her own little meltdowns over what to do with her problem child.

Huh. He's laying your walkway. Huh huh huh.

Huh. He's laying your walkway. Huh huh huh.

Layin that hard, hard concrete.