Just me but I wouldn't do that either under those circumstances. The car is more than just a car to me though others may not see it that way and that's the problem. 
Am I in the wrong?
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Am I in the wrong?
There is a small town festival coming up in my wife's home town June 9th & June 10th and one of the organizers asked if they could use my Vette in the parade on Saturday.
I thought it would be kind of fun so I said sure, and asked what time I needed to be lined up on Saturday. The guys turns around and says we'll need the car for our driver about 10:00 AM.
"Driver?, what driver?" I said. He says the high school senior selected as grand Marshall will drive the car himself. I said "Huh...... what, I'm not letting a kid, not mention a kid I don't know drive my car", he can drive in the car with me".
This guy then says that won't work because he'll have cases of ice-cream bars he'll be handing out to the kids on the parade root.
This time I say "excuse me, you're going to have what in my car with this teenage kid I've never met driving my car?" Hoping when he repeated it he would hear how crazy that sounded, but he just repeated it and said could they use it?
I end up saying no, he was pretty ticked, my wife thought I should have since its a town where everyone knows everyone but I just couldn't get past the part about the teenage boy I don't know with a car with 436HP and ice-cream in my car.
Waaaay too many things to go wrong
As the subject states, am I in the wrong?
I thought it would be kind of fun so I said sure, and asked what time I needed to be lined up on Saturday. The guys turns around and says we'll need the car for our driver about 10:00 AM.
"Driver?, what driver?" I said. He says the high school senior selected as grand Marshall will drive the car himself. I said "Huh...... what, I'm not letting a kid, not mention a kid I don't know drive my car", he can drive in the car with me".
This guy then says that won't work because he'll have cases of ice-cream bars he'll be handing out to the kids on the parade root.
This time I say "excuse me, you're going to have what in my car with this teenage kid I've never met driving my car?" Hoping when he repeated it he would hear how crazy that sounded, but he just repeated it and said could they use it?
I end up saying no, he was pretty ticked, my wife thought I should have since its a town where everyone knows everyone but I just couldn't get past the part about the teenage boy I don't know with a car with 436HP and ice-cream in my car.
Waaaay too many things to go wrong
As the subject states, am I in the wrong?
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I don't think you needed to ask the question because you already knew what we would all say. I think your friend has some nerve asking you to let a teenager drive your car, not to mention the ice cream in the car. 
I would not even let my own teenager do that in my vette.
I would not even let my own teenager do that in my vette.
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Nope, you were NOT wrong. You were spot on!
Last year a friend of mine asked if I would deliver his daughter in my Vette to her prom. I said that I would. He said he'd call me back with the time and details. When he calls back he says that she was wanting her boyfriend to ride with her. All I said what they both wouldn't fit in the passenger seat.
My friend didn't come out and say it but I think he was fishing for me to volunteer to let the boyfriend drive... I don't think so! 
Last year a friend of mine asked if I would deliver his daughter in my Vette to her prom. I said that I would. He said he'd call me back with the time and details. When he calls back he says that she was wanting her boyfriend to ride with her. All I said what they both wouldn't fit in the passenger seat.
My friend didn't come out and say it but I think he was fishing for me to volunteer to let the boyfriend drive... I don't think so!
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yeah a kid yopu don't know driving a car he has never driven handing out ice cream to kids who run up to and lean in the car....what could possibly go wrong? 
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No you are in the right, no way in hell I would let that happen.
He can sit in the passenger seat with the cooler on his lap and hand out ice cream...
Tell them to go to Hertz and rent one for the day. Whats a few hundred $ to them.
He can sit in the passenger seat with the cooler on his lap and hand out ice cream...
Tell them to go to Hertz and rent one for the day. Whats a few hundred $ to them.
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