Matt takes the test for his driver’s license today. He’s ready. I don’t know if we are.
Getting a driver’s license is a turning point. Another milepost along the road to adulthood.
Matt’s a very good driver. I’m not worried about him. He’s responsible. Conscientious. I just reminded him that he’ll be driving a loaded gun, and that 44,000 people die in car accidents a year in the U.S. And I told him about the best advice I was ever told about riding a motorcycle — don’t drive mad.
That’s it. That’s the sum total of advice I can dispense as my son moves on down the road. That, and what Jackie Stewart once said: “Drive spectacularly.”
