Nikki Wise, Charger Staff
You’re at a school activity, and it is time to go home. You wait patiently
while you watch the others get into their cars and leave. Your mother is late
picking you up again and you are the last person at the school building. The
parking lot gets dark and creepy, and the thing you wish the most is if only
you could drive.
Driving gives everyone the freedom of being able to go somewhere and leaving
when it is over without having to wait out in the cold in a dark parking lot
that you don’t feel comfortable being in. I feel a lot of compassion on
those whose parents don’t support them in different activities that they
are in. I feel sorry for people who don’ t do a lot at school simply because
their parents don’t want to take them back and forth to different activities.
I am thankful to have people that love me to take me back and forth to different
events even though being able to drive will be nice.
Driving has its positive and negative aspects. You get to go where you want
to go, whenever you want to go, and listening to your favorite radio station
you want to (if your parents let you). If you don’t have anyone to pick
for a very important event you don’t have to panic you can drive yourself
because you already know how to drive. Doesn’t that sound great?
On a negative side a car is very expensive. With the new law this year you
have to have insurance on your car. Insurance is very expensive and not many
parents will pay for insurance for their teenager.
Not only that, but you also have gas and what ever else happens to the car
to pay for.
Despite all the money you have to pay for a car being, able to drive a having a car is still worth it. Freshman, sophomores and those few juniors out there be patient. Your time to drive will come soon.
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