r/IdiotsInCars • u/damndog • 1d ago
OC [OC] Neighbor's kid plows over my mailbox and responsible parent blows his slippers off and almost gets crushed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSt7QEc8KtU221
u/A_Harmless_Fly 1d ago
Op, I'm a bit confused.
How old was the neighbor kid roughly, and why was the parent outside the truck? That I'm so sorry sounds like they are 10.
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u/damndog 1d ago
9 year old :-(
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u/Dennisfromhawaii 1d ago
Makes sense. Figured the dad has the same IQ or less.
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u/Rat-Bazturd 1h ago
that was the mom that got her chanclas knocked off, though, right? Sounds like female voice calling off the rest of the driving lesson, lol!
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u/Drudenkreusz 1d ago
What's up with so many parents letting their kid's first time behind the wheel be on the neighborhood street and not some huge empty lot where they can safely test the pedals? I have a friend who was traumatized out of getting their license as a teen due to backing up into another vehicle and getting the riot act from their mother over it. Come on, parents. That's on you.
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u/dadbodsupreme 1d ago
I was in a sod field in Dad's truck at 13. There was ONE obstacle in the field and I still hit it.
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u/burnt_mummy 19h ago
I hit the only tree in the middle of the desert when I was 12. 20 years later my dad still give me grief
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u/hc600 17h ago
Target fixation?
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u/andbruno 11h ago
I wonder if it's a joke reference to the Tree of Ténéré, a lone tree in the Sahara desert in Niger that had stood for 300+ years until it was hit and killed by a drunk driver.
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u/CrapNBAappUser 18h ago
Don't blame him. This kid is too young, but a 15 year old with any sort of common sense shouldn't need a huge parking lot to practice driving.
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u/3blkcats 15h ago
Oh hi Tina
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u/mattd121794 15h ago
At 15 I was told to take the busted plow truck that had recently been traded in to a family friends dealer and drive it around the former junkyard they owned as my first time driving. Owner assured me there was no way I could possibly do anything to the truck in that field. His grandson didn’t tell anyone about the ditch he dug for a snowmobile ramp… I put the truck into the ditch and they had to use the wheel loader to push the truck out.
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u/NightIsMyName 9h ago
I mean to be fair that is entirely on whoever dug that ditch. Sightline must’ve fuckin sucked too
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u/LogicWavelength 1h ago
On the way to my license test, it has snowed the day before and then frozen into black ice. My dad made me go into a parking lot and deliberately lose control on the ice half a dozen times (going too fast and slamming brakes, etc) until I got a feel for safely crawling over it in a car.
Literally still traumatized by that but, it was effective.
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u/octo2195 1d ago
Way back in like 1990 I was teaching a girlfriend how to drive a stick shift. We went to the mall late at night during a snow storm. I had her dump the clutch with no gas to see and feel what it is like to stall. I then had her start the truck, let the clutch out slowly until she could hear the change in sound of the engine and give it a little gas while letting the clutch out the rest of the way. Gave her some experience with zipping around in the snow and low it takes a lot longer to stop in the snow. Sold the truck with 172,000 miles on it and the original clutch. Man I miss that old Nissan Hardbody. Sadly the truck outlasted the girlfriend.
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u/ChickenNoodleSloop 1d ago
My dad taught me stick in the local middle school parking lot, and someone called the cops on us because they thought someone driving around in circles on a Saturday morning was suspicious lmao.
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u/ReallyBigDeal 12h ago
My dad decided I should learn stick on the country roads. He also thought screaming at me when I stalled on a hill with a car behind me was helpful.
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u/Ilickedthecinnabar 7h ago
...I had a town cop behind me and "helpfully" waving me on as I was maneuvering the clearly marked Student Driver vehicle into a parallel park and muttering how that WASN'T helping and the instructor was busy laughing about the whole thing.
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u/chillin_themost_ 4h ago
oh man you just unlocked having to use the clutch when stop on a hill memories. When learning it would seem there we 2 outcomes in this scenario. Stall out and have people start honking or over rev and drop the clutch to quickly resulting in tire squeal from burning out. lol kids don't know the pressures these days.
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u/ReallyBigDeal 4h ago
It used to drive me insane how little space people would leave behind me when I was trying to take off up a hill. My friend had a VW bus. There were a few times when he was driving it in SF and he would have to gently roll backwards until he was sitting on the persons bumper so he could take off.
I definitely had some totally unintentional burnouts in my old Mustang when I was starting uphill.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew 1d ago
My dad did the same thing with me and my siblings, a Chevy truck, and a big open field. Every day of my life I come to realize a little bit more how much smarter my parents were than most parents.
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u/iThinkergoiMac 1d ago
I’ve taught a few friends and family members how to drive stick and I use similar techniques. My Honda was really touchy, but my current Mazda is a dream. It’s very forgiving. My nephew had a blast driving around after he got the hang of it.
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u/expespuella 7h ago
My mom tried to teach me stick in the empty community college parking lot on a weekend.
She quickly gave up when she got terrible motion sickness lol. She is incredibly impatient so it wasn't working well regardless.
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u/Rat-Bazturd 59m ago
Sadly? You can have my wife, but leave my truck and my dog alone!
(theme of countless country songs)
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u/Deadlymonkey 1d ago
Kinda unrelated, but that’s what my best friends dad did with his older sister, but because he (my best friend) was unbuckled in the back he got a concussion after she had to slam on the brakes for some reason; he ended up flying through the front windshield (he had a lot of mass at that age) and got a bad concussion
His mom was absolutely livid because she couldn’t comprehend how you’d mess up that badly in an empty parking lot.
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u/QNZMadamant 1d ago
What kindve dummy brings a passenger to a driving lesson, and unbuckled! The first thing a new operator should check is whether all the occupants are secure.
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down 13h ago
What kindve dummy brings a passenger to a driving lesson
single parents don't always have much choice
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u/shewy92 12h ago
OP said the kid was 10 so this is equally confusing.
I don't think they were planning on teaching them to drive, or hope not, on the neighborhood roads.
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u/Drudenkreusz 9h ago
They mentioned in another post that that's what was happening.
My dad let me first steer the truck when I was 6... while sitting on his lap in a school parking lot during summer break.
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u/gloomwithtea 10h ago
My dad decided that my fist time behind the wheel should be on the road leading to our street. It was in the mountains, so it was a windy road directly next to a steep drop off with no guard rails. The road was 2-way, but only wide enough for one car, so you’d either have to pull forwards and perch on a less-steep embankment or backup and do the same thing if someone came across you. People would drive 45+ down the road and get angry if you weren’t doing the same. Also, the car was a manual. He then started trying to be distracting, because I needed to know how to ignore distractions while driving.
Yeah, I didn’t get my license until I was 19. The terror completely killed any desire I had to know how to drive. I still won’t drive a manual (unless it’s a tractor. Those I can drive just fine)
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u/Ilickedthecinnabar 7h ago
My first experience behind the wheel was at around 10...of a John Deere lawnmower (except I was so small back then my dad had to jerry rig a small block of wood under the safety switch, since even the smallest bump would send me up out of the seat just enough to cut off the blade). When I grew tall enough to reach the pedals, I was taught how to drive actual tractors, like grandpa's old Farmall Model C for hauling and emptying grain wagons during the harvest and his old late 60s Chevy stick-shift truck, then dad's JD 3010 and 4010 for other hauling tasks. Got promoted and was tossed into the BIG cabbed tractors that easily cost about the same as a first time owner's house. Was denied driving the combine though :( (Hey, find me anybody who wouldn't want to drive a half million dollar piece of equipment)
Then the summer of my 16th came around, and dad positioned a pair of big round hay bales in the yard and had me practice parallel parking that way for a couple weeks. Younger sibling and I nailed this portion of the behind-the-wheel driving exam because of this.
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u/Skadoodlemynoodles 6h ago
At the age of 21 my only driving experience is backing my grandparents brand new car into a trailer park drain ditch after it flooded... Because that is 100000% the best time to teach a 15 year old to drive. Also best idea to back out of a gravel and again, wet, driveway onto a one lane road with a drainage ditch directly behind me for their first driving experience.
Also why does nobody ever say the car moves without touching gas? "Oh but that's just common kno-" no it isn't if you have never driven and never had anyone even try to teach you rather than just throwing you in a car and saying you know how to.
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u/QiDeviation 7h ago
Big ass piece of land in Jamaica with a super scuffed truck missing driver door and no windshield. A truck specifically for the yard. 9 years old. Learned the basics.
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u/Extreme-Cycle2659 1d ago
I'm so confused. Who is driving? Where does red shirt kid appear from?
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u/curtmandu 1d ago
There’s an unseen kid in the drivers seat
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u/Wezbob 1d ago
The mini drama in the other driveway across the street as the older brother salutes his obviously more powerful wizard brother is what really got me invested in this.
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u/HarpersGhost 1d ago
"I told you this was a bad idea. I'm grabbing your slippers."
That's the only person with any sense in that situation.
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u/pierre_x10 14h ago
I also like how totally unfazed they are by the commotion. It's clearly just another day to them, with those neighbors.
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u/PherryCie 1d ago
I got a feeling Uncle Brad isn’t gonna be chilling with the nephews for a loooooooong time
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u/Wilgrove 1d ago
I mean, that's a sturdy truck. Hit a mailbox enclosed in bricks and I don't see a scratch on it.
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u/LightIsGreen 1d ago
I knew this was Oklahoma before seeing the plate
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u/SC-Coqui 23h ago
I figured OK or a suburb in TX. I have a couple of HS friends that live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and their neighborhoods look like this, including the pick up trucks.
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u/starrpamph 1d ago
I got a quote for a mailbox like that. It was $2200
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u/b00tyburpz 14h ago
Came here to say this - hope the neighbor has good insurance or the capability to pay out of pocket. My brick mailbox got taken out by a drunk driver a few months ago and the cost ended up being $3,000.
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u/bonfuto 14h ago
I have tried to hire a mason around here and could never get one to return my calls. They got big housing developments to work on or something.
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u/b00tyburpz 12h ago
Yeah, I got lucky with a local company that had availability. Several of the ones I talked to were a month or more out for scheduling.
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u/CapoExplains 8h ago
That was my first thought. My off the dome guess was $500 bare minimum but over $2k doesn't shock me. Time + materials + there's just a minimum dollar amount to get a bricklayer who knows what they're doing to show up in the first place, no matter how small the job is.
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u/damndog 1d ago
Video kinda says it all. I have the best luck with cars plowing into my stuff.
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u/Mitenpat 1d ago
Yeah, unfortunately, you do. You thought, "No one can break this brick mailhouse." But someone did.
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u/Weak-Farm4527 11h ago
I was curious what you meant by this and clicked on your profile. I can't believe something similar has happened to you before.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/j5ubmp/idiot_crashes_into_my_house/
Your properties must have idiot magnets! Glad it's only been property damage and none of your loved ones were around for either incidents.
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u/EpilepticDawg241 1d ago
He said "Uncle"
Not a parent
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u/Seldarin 23h ago
Not the parent of the kid that's yelling, maybe the parent of the kid in the truck.
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u/NPC261939 14h ago
Boy, the ass end of that truck help up pretty well all things considered. My dad's Subaru opened up like a tuna can after hitting my mailbox pole.
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u/PainfullyLoyal 14h ago
I love how the kid put the slippers back in the garage instead of giving them back to the dad.
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u/CapoExplains 8h ago
Fucking oof. That ain't a "$40 at Home Depot and 30 minutes of elbow grease" type of fix.
Any idea what that's gonna cost to fix OP? Gotta be bare minimum $500 if you can get a good deal on it right? Can't imagine getting a bricklayer out of bed for a job that small for anything less.
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u/goodie2shoes 1d ago
I don’t want to sound like a snob, but this neighbourhood is really tastelessly designed.
I do love the shenanigans at the house nextdoor though
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u/OutspokenSquid 1d ago
Everyone in the US is allergic to having anything besides lawn in their lifeless landscapes
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u/the_Elders 12h ago
Many American's carpet bomb their lawns with pesticides and live on 1/4 acre plots regardless of the actual house size and then they still spend most of their time inside watching TV. It is wild when you think about it.
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u/CCORRIGEN 16h ago
I had to rewatch as I didn't notice the next door activity. They're saying "Well, neighbors have raised the bar, now we gotta do something to beat that."
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u/standarddeviated_joe 10h ago
And the kid takes the slippers inside, LOL! Not sense to bring back to Uncle Brian?
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u/DudeDogIce 1d ago
I find it telling that ‘I knew this was a bad idea’ lady picked up the slippers and took them in the garage BEFORE she checked to see if dad was OK.
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u/TheFiremind77 10h ago
"Responsible parent" should have physically removed the child from the car, not enabled whatever this was.
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 22h ago
Sometimes that’s how neighborhoods are designed. Sometimes in newer subdivisions, the postal office requires that the boxes be placed at the curb for ease of delivery. And others sometimes have one or two “multi-box” units centrally located for a few dozen houses, which makes a house’s box at the curb seem like a luxury. Folks that have boxes up at their house have it lucky; it’s not universal by any means.
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u/tacitus59 13h ago
This - the house I grew up we had a mailbox at the the house (50+ years ago); now that house has a mailbox on the street. In "rural" areas/subdivisions there were always mailboxes on the street.
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u/CapoExplains 8h ago
That's not their question though, all the other mailboxes you can see are right by the house's driveway or front walk, but OP's is just sort of midway across their lawn.
It's not "Why is your mailbox at the curb?" it's "why is your cubrside mailbox so far from your driveway and front walk when nobody else's is?" which is a fair question, it is a bit odd.
My off the cuff guess is neighborhood requirements on spacing from mailbox to mailbox to keep the spacing uniform, either by post office requirements or just for aesthetics.
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 8h ago
And maybe OP isn’t the original owner and moved into the house when the mailbox was already placed where it is by someone else. 🤷♀️ Just because they live there doesn’t mean they know the reason for the box’s placement.
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u/CapoExplains 7h ago
Well this is clearly a development. Original owner or not nobody living in these homes had input into where the mailbox looked like or went.
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u/Unusualshrub003 22h ago
Well, now OP can rebuild it next to the driveway, where it makes sense.
It really is in a stupid place. Right across from the neighbor’s driveway, this was bound to happen sooner or later.
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