Family Problems

damn hotdawg i have to agree with you! but i have to disagree with the taking away your keys bit. when i was a teen that was the only thing i had that i cared about, to any teen their car is all they care about. girlfriends, jobs,even friends come and go, but your first car that stays with you forever no matter how old you are. im 25 and still miss my old mazda. its like losing your virginity you will always remeber it!
i know how it is to be in broken home cuz in from one. my dad left my mom when i was 5, she then married my stepdad 7yrs later. we never got along not because i felt he was replacing my dad but because i didnt like him, nobody did. my mom felt it was the right thing to do since i was going down the wrong path in life. despite my wishes she did it, and to this day we still cant get along. though they are going through a divorce now my mom said shed had enough! she told me just the other day that had she known how it was gonna ruin my relationship with my mom she would have never married him. my dad was never in my life, so all i had was my mom. anyway back to the point i dont think its fair to say give me your keys. yea i know "my house, my rules" and "dont like it then theres the door" but its just not right. im pretty sure you disagree with me because you have more experience in life than i do but taking a kids keys is wrong. if you pay for it why should they take it away? is it that parents think by taking away your car is gonna solve anything? in my case it just made it worse!

oh and slammed83 i always thought you were older!

nope most people think im around 25, and when i tell them im 17 i seem tog et alot more attention towards my truck cause i did it all myself.

cool it is a badass truck, good job!

Slammed sorry bro. But if your dad had to call you 14 times to get you home, then you deserve to lose your freedom for some time....no matter if you are 17. Sounds as if he was actually gonna be ok until you tried to walk off from him, in which instegating the situation further. And there seems there was no need to "hear your side" aka "excuses". He called you 14 times before you decided "ok I'll go home now". Which to me is blantant refussal to listen.


this is were you not knowing the whole story comes into play, i left my phone at my buddys house cause we were gonna ride up to the store so i thought needless to say he blew a cylinder so we were damn near cripeled, so we had to limp the car to a local shop get a new one put on needless to say i was gone for almost 2 hours instead of 15 mins, so me not having a phone and him not having a phone you no i could only do so much.

and as far as me walking off, i was walking down to my room because i thought he was done talking to me cause he said nothing else then he said, as far as your truck goes its going in the garage, im sorry but blackmaleing a 17 year old just cause the trucks in his name isnt right

i no how that is mine was in my moms name im 18 now and its in my name so theres nothing anyone can do=)

wow. Im with hotdawg on this one. Who gives a shit? My dad and I had never gotten along in middle school and high school. Ya know why? Its because he didnt want me to make the same mistakes he did. Although somethings were off the wall everything he did he was looking after my future.
The problem with kids today is that they think they deserve shit and they dont respect anyone. Maybe it goes along well with this whole hip hop Im a hard gangsta crowd. My mom went out on her own when she was 18 and joined the military. My dad left home when he was 16. They built a life from nothing and built a better future for thier kids. I know we dont always see eye to eye but dammit I respect them for they have done. Man up and admit that you made a mistake.

what was the mistake i did, i told him i was sorry for not calling there wasnt nothing i could do at the time, i had no phone and i was half stranded as soon as i got back i got my phone and called and he was like get home i was like thats cool gimme 15 mins, i got home and he said everything was fine but as soon as i started walking down to my room, he was like the trucks going in the garage and thats when i had it, my dad always uses my truck as an example everytime i do something wrong and i no i do, i know he put a rough over my head and such but its not right to constantly hold my truck over my head just cause its in his name.

normally i just stalk the mazda forum as im on rangerscene but this topic was interesting. if the truck is what u care most about then its probably in his opinion the best thing to use in terms of discipline and getting you to listen...just my thought. If you had a car u didnt give 2 shits about and u got rides from people everywhere and didnt want to be seen in it...taking ure keys wouldnt do jack. But since its something u care about it gets ure attention. Im a firm believer in parents pretty much have the right to do whatever they see fit as long as its not abusive...and taking keys is not. My suggestion is to go away to college and get out of the house life will be dandy, im 19 and a love it. I mean my high school days were just two years ago so I remember them well. And part of having a cell phone is also for ure parents to keep in touch with u, u were being irresponsible by not having it on you, granted everyone forgets it now and then but it doesnt change the fact u didnt have it with u. If a parent calls and gets no answer 14 times they are goin to think somethings up.

ya i agree with you ^ im not like hell with this ima be 18 time to leave i just wanna take a break for a bit cause me and my dad have random shit fights for some reason, but other thing is he compares his realtionship with his wife to mine * example* she calls him at least 6 times a day he has to do the same to me which i think is fuckin nuts, he will call me 3-4 times while im at work asking me what im doing and what time i get off and ill post my schedule on the fridge but oh well. i just need a break from him for a bit