Your Mother is Always Right

During winter, last year, it was snowing really hard, so hard that people could barley see on the road. The news forecast said we would get around a foot of snow, and road conditions would quickly deteriorate from there. While there was a period where the snow has ceased to fall, later it started back up again resulting in poor road conditions.

My mom was worried because she knew my brother was out in the winter storm, so she had texted him to stop driving because it was getting dangerous outside with slippery roads, and poor visibility. He however, decided to read the message but ignored it to go to Walmart because his girlfriend wanted him to go shopping. While making the poor decision to not listen to his Mom, he decided to go out anyway. While driving his car, he lost traction through an intersection and hit a curb.

This resulted in a smashed up bumper and some scratches on his car. He thought to himself “Oh well, this damage isn’t so bad might as well keep driving.” He later told us about the damages done to his car weeks later, so when my mom asked “what day did that occur?” He responded “A few weeks ago.” None the less she figured it out, he had crashed on the day she told him to stay off the road. This made her tell him the biggest “I told you so” in history.

He seemed to not mind the damages done to his car, or at least not cared until he brought the car to the Audi dealership to see the repair bill. It was $1,350 for a little plastic piece in the bumper, had he not drove in the snow like his Mom said he wouldn’t have had to pay $1,350. He also couldn’t use his car for 2 days because it was being worked on.

He later got his car fixed after paying a lot of money and he learned a great lesson “you should listen to your mother, because she is always right.” From then on, he learned to drive more carefully in the winter time, and stayed off the roads more often.

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