re: Did you, or do you plan to, make your kid pay for their first car?

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Jesus, man, what were his insurance rates?

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This was 11 years ago so I don't remember the exact amount but it was high. He dinged a parked police car backing out of his parking space at the mall about a year later. Freaked out and left the scene and didn't tell me. Of course, they tracked him down and gave him multiple tickets. Our insurance dropped him and he had to buy his own.