Garage doors can be an investment. The kind of investment you'd like to stay where it is, in the condition you put it there in. The first time I visited my friend Kyle's house after school in Orient OH, his dad had just put in a couple garage doors. Not the normal short ones, these were on this separate garage thing and had to be 12 feet or so. Prior to purchasing the garage doors he had made the mistake of buying his daughter - Kyle's little sister - a motorcycle. Not a bullet bike, but a dirtbike type motorcycle. She could ride it, she just wasn't so good at stopping it. You know, that's something only more advanced riders ever get to learning how to do. She was still intermediate. She had chosen to use the garage to stop her. While the doors were down.
Unfortunately for me, I showed up right around the time that Kyle's father figured this out. The problem with the dissemination of information in this circumstance was pretty simple; you see he didn't find out she hit the garage until he already knew that she wasn't hurt. So there was no parental instinct protecting her. It was just the instinct to protect your garage doors that was present when this happened and that didn't bode well for her. Kind of was.
Moral of the story? Don't buy your kids things.
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