<p>This all turned out well in the long run. Don’t hold it against your daughter’s friend, if he was trying to ‘teach her a lesson’ …maybe it was a little heavy handed, but he’s only, what? 18?
We should all be happy that everything turned out OK in the end. :)</p>
<p>While tanya’s D was doing a practical joke, it wasn’t a wise one to do because there is a chance of defacing property, even if she didn’t realize it. It could have been a big problem and she’d be responsible for it. She didn’t purposefully have intentions of causing damage but it was a chance she took. There are better practical jokes. It just is not wise to do anything to another person’s property even if you don’t intend to cause damage. It really should be hands off. </p>
<p>I also think his joke on her, while meaning perhaps to scare her and teach her a lesson or get back at her, was over the top, particularly in how he dragged it out for a week and might still have been keeping that stance had she not gone over there to inspect the damage. It may have been better to have just told her flat out that he didn’t appreciate it because it could have damaged the car, or if he wanted to joke or scare her a bit, played the joke for a day and then come clean that no damage was caused. </p>
<p>Neither used the best judgement in my view.</p>
<p>Sometimes kids think something is harmless fun and it can be harmless but when they start messing with other people’s property, there really is a chance that something can go wrong and it is best to not play around like that. </p>
<p>I recall once in middle school, some kids took my D’s flute and hid it in the school so that she thought it was missing. We even were upset with her that she lost it and had to search the school, contact janitors and so forth. This went on for many days. I forget the details now (she’s in college) and how it came out but it came out later that a couple kids thought it was a funny joke to hide her flute and then it was revealed where it was. This may seem harmless as damage was not caused or necessarily intended but by touching her property and in this case hiding it, caused undue stress. These kinds of jokes are not funny, even if nothing is actually damaged. I think the best policy is to not touch others’ property without their permission.</p>
<p>Around here the kids write on each other’s car windows with the paint sticks made expressively for that purpose. It’s a sign of how cool and popular you are. About 8 of my D’s friends wrote on her (2000 Honda Civic) windows for her 18th birthday and she didn’t wash it off for weeks.</p>
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<p>And this one of life’s little lessons didn’t cost you any $$$…a BIG bonus in my book.</p>
<p>My sisters friends came and wrote on her car windows all this stuff about 2007 graduation and congrat’s and whatnot to her. She left it on for two weeks and just washed it off a few days ago.</p>
<p>A girl stuck oreo cookies all over sons car. Cream side down. He drove it around like that for a while. They did leave spots but his car is a piece of junk so it didn’t really matter.</p>
<p>sooz - not funny about the flute. I played a flute (and piccolo) and I think people don’t realize how expensive that little instrument actually is…</p>
<p>and is it safe to drive around with stuff written all over your windows? I would think that would be dangerous and illegal
i saw a girl get pulled over because she had a parking sticker in a bad place on her rear window</p>
<p>I’m not really sure how it works as far as seeing is concerned. I know my sister only drove four times with it on, two miles each way. She didn’t say that there was a problem seeing, and probably would have left it on longer… however it came off when she was washing her car. </p>
<p>She bought her car two years ago and has put 4,000 miles on it. At this rate, she’ll have it when she’s 100.</p>