Mirin everything, srs.

How about 'proud dad' thread. If you posted pics taking your son camping and how much it meant to both of you, I would be first in line to congratulate you. It is pretty simple....he and I like cars. That is our 'thing'. I would be just as happy posting vids of him working on his car (which I have before). Life is good. Your flame does not burn brighter by blowing out other people's candles.....Funny you say that, but I actually had a hard time getting insurance from Hagerty. They would not write me a policy for a 720 even though I have owned a few exotics prior. They wont write any policies unless you have owned it for a year. Even in stock form, these can be a handful. The 720 is a pretty incredible car. First car to scare the sh!t out of me in a long time. But it is brilliant none the less. Just have to respect it.Thanks man. This is a HUGE day for us. Opens so many doors which have been close till now. So many more tracks we can see and go to...etc. He and I have been joking about this for sometime, but really looking forward to the next few years of him and I making our way around to as many tracks as we can.His first car he ever drove, was an 850 hp Huracan on track. Like literally the first time he ever drove a car. By his 3rd turn he was hitting 120+ and doing well. We have spent the past 2 years tracking and he probably has more time going tripple digit speeds than most adults.

Kind of like the difference between giving an untrained kid a loaded gun vs one who has grown up hunting. We save our fast driving for the race track. The 720 is so fast almost any thing you do puts you over 100mph. We already had the talk and he has been with me plenty of times to understand what is appropriate on the roads. On the track....different story. You can have a lot more fun and really get to experience the cars.Of course! That is the fun in owning them. Sharing them with your kids. He has a level head and arguably can drive better than I can. He drives i-Racing on our sim and I cant even come close to matching his performance on downforce formula4 and formula 3 cars. I am just too slow. He has gained a healthy respect for what it means to drive.

We are transitioning. The street cars are meaning less to me. They are still fun, but the tracking bug has really bitten us. Picking up this new car and then finishing my sons, will make for a busy fall for us. I am not sure what is coming after the McLaren. I tend to switch cars about after a year. Not sure what the future holds, but the track stuff is more important to me right now.It does happen in a blink! SO true. Make the moments, take the time and be 'present' to remember them. Life is what you make it. COVID taught me to make moments when there were not any. That is what really threw us into the car thing. There was nothing to do, but fortunately the car world kept on. We had events and gatherings ever week and got out and enjoyed life. The car world about universally rejected all the 'lockdowns'. We just all did our things. No masks, no vax's....and yet somehow we survived. Without cars, I am not sure if we would have had any memories from those times since it was a big black hole in everyone's life.

So that was a lesson I learned. MAKE your moments. Like today. Is that part of it that is stupid to hand my son with a fresh license the keys to a 1000hp car and tell him to go have fun?.... Sure. Yes, there is a lot of that can be said for what can go wrong. BUT.....what are the odds, that someday when I am dead, and my son might be telling his grand children about the day he got his license and what his dad did. There is no value you can place on those things. And it could it that I cared to take him fishing, or threw a ball with him, or admired his artwork. It does not matter. Be a part of your kids lives and enrichen the experience for them. You only go around once!

Mirin

Living the dream life srs

Thanks man...that is cool to say, but dont want to come off the wrong way. The 'dream' is not an expensive car. For me the dream is having an incredible wife that I am still 100% in love with after 22 years of marriage. It is having two kids that really love us and want us in their lives even though that are getting older. They include us and want to be around us.

Having anything else on top of that is just icing on the cake. But I lived for a few years with very little after the economy collapsed. I went from having quite a bit of 'stuff' (like having 3 helicopters at one time) to have very little. We had a roof over our head, and a mini van and a truck I still own. My kids were 3 and 5 then and I spent 3 years watching them get on the bus every morning, and being at the bus stop at 230 to see them get off.

Those years taught me where my real happiness in life came from. Prior to that, I was always chasing MOAR. I learned what was important to me. The 'stuff' is cool, but only if everything else is there go with it. I have many times over the past decade, gave up the opportunity to make more money because I was unwilling to make compromises to my life and how I want to live it. I live with a lot less and focus more on trying to find the balance to live life on my terms. Vs, becoming a slave to a black hole that will swallow you and never leave you feeling satisfied. Success can be like that I and I was lucky to learn a lesson at an early age.

Money does not buy happiness. Anything over and above meeting your needs is just a bonus. Can you have fun with it?....sure. But it is not a source of true happiness. NEVER sacrifice the life you want for money alone. It is not worth it. If you can find a path that keeps both in balance, than great. But I see decades of guys chasing a carrot they will never catch and then find themselves empty. Disconnected from their wifes, and kids. Unhappy...sure they may have some money, but the path they took was not worth it.

Keep your family first, and all will work out.

Still never answer my questions. How would you feel if your daughter dated a jogger? Ded fkn srs

Boyo is trying to form a misc family merger

What does your son plan to do after high school?

Fuaaaarkkkk this is awesome bro. Congratulations and stay being a dope father.

I have one sitting around because I dont want to upgrade my PSU. Make me an offer in PM. No thread hijack for good father posts

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i repped you before for your ultima thread, difference being it was interesting and you onky made the thread once

this fkn guy makes the same thread at least once a month always bragging about him, his family and/or his friends. Always types out the same life story as if it must get more interesting with each retelling

Yea just remember to make sure your kid knows to be responsible. At that age, accidents are very likely.

The government shouldn't allow billionaires. There isn't enough chit on Earth for everyone to live that way, so it is entirely unfair that some do while others starve. I think that is a fair position to take.

i won my golf club championship last month and havent made a single thread about it. Its the absolute pinnacle for the 99.9% of amateurs. Currently watching the 4th test at Old Trafford, here every day its about the biggest event in world sport this week next to the Tour de France. Was in Mayfair last week, America and Scotland earlier this year. Op has never left bumblufuk nowhere. And Im still outlifting anyone I know

I wouldnt say I was ridiculously wealthy but Im enjoying life, just dont feel the need to show off. Its a british thing try it

how come you are beefed up yet yer son is some gay twink?

Das it

good attitude

it is just stuff

Do you have kids of your own Sammy?

Nice thread, OP. Glad to see you're having so much fun, and that your son is too.
It isn't a "British" thing. It is a "bitter" thing. And not just for you, for many posters on this forum. Over all, it is a lack of emotional maturity on your part, which explains why you see a simple display as "bragging" or "showing off".

You listed a bunch of achievements there - congrats, but this thread isn't about you, much as you're trying to make it so. Just like SS ffs, lol.

OP, what do you do for a living?

cant win though can I.. get called out for being bitter and say nothing, youll say told you so, list why im nit bitter and im making the thread about myself lol

fact is i havent made a single thread about it, so that will have to do

he was born into wealth and maintains it

You could just say "Hey OP, nice car - glad your son is into cars too. Making memories is important- time flies."

But you didn't say that, did you? Hence my post.

I'll become a father for the first time in the next few days so, yeah - it isn't hard for me to imagine making fun memories with a kid of mine. You?

Looks like a good kid…..congrats on getting his license

On a forum full of losers with multiple accounts, mental illness, racist losers, Op is a true MOGGER.

If only I had 25% of your drive to make success and money.

two of the biggest bitter old farts on the misc lmao

Congrats on the milestone, ID. I've got two driving already and my youngest just got her permit.

Also congrats on somehow still consistently have regular haters on here for 10+ years now. They are devoted. LOL.

-AJ

I am not sure any kid (especially boy) knows what he wants to do. He would like to be a professional gamer but doubt that will pay the bills. I am not sure college is a good route for him. He is a lot I was at that age. I hope to expose him to opportunities and see where life takes him. He is a smart kid with better people skills than I ever had at his age. As parents we know he may be the kid that takes the unconventional path. Vs my daughter who is the typical rule follower, finished her first years of school with 3.85gpa...etc. That is not him. He is going to have to find his way.

I think that would be about the best compliment I could ever get. Lots of things in life you can work at, but being a parent is something that comes with no instructions. I am thankful that I have an awesome wife who has helped me become and even better man. I think the person that I have become was in many ways dictated by being motivated to be better for those around me. Having good motivation in one's life is pretty powerful.
I might put a wager his 16yo twink might be stronger than you. He does 15+ pullups with a 45 on weighted belt. But part of his thin nature is a medical condition he has. Not going to get into it, but he has a chronic medical condition we have been dealing with since he was 5. At one point he was only in the 3rd percentile with weight. We are happy to say he is doing pretty good now. That is another reason we got so into cars. His condition got so bad he had to stop playing soccer 2 years ago. That was always his thing he loved the most. So cars became a place where he could get out and still experience competition without the physical barriers he was experiencing.

But he is not much different than I was at his age. At 18 I was 135lbs. I took up lifting after breaking my collar bone which ended my college hockey career. By the time I was 21 I was 190+ (yes nattie)Whatever pays the bills.I do a few things. Real-estate investments for past 13 years. Income properties. But on a daily basis I design custom homes. I am self taught, but in construction in one form or another for almost 30 years. I used to run a larger business, but after 2008 I decided to just focus on what I love to do. So for the past 13 years, I just work from home with no employees. (used to have 50+ people I had to deal with). I could make MOAR, but I have chosen quality of daily life over stuff.Ha....dad was an electrician who left my mom when I was 15 and didnt pay child support. My mom took a job making $8/hour to try to make ends meet and we moved in with my grandparents. I went to college, but dropped out since I could not bear the thought of my mom trying to support me. She could only send me $50/ week to live on. I realized I was taking student loans for a degree I did not want. I dropped out what would have been my Sr year.

I took all my belongings packed in garbage bags and old milk crates, and packed it in my truck I bought with working construction over the summers and I moved south... Not knowing what it would bring. I found myself down here, and within 4 months I started my first business. I did pretty well by all accords, but I was never happy. I had all kinds of stuff. I went on to open a helicopter business besides my two other businesses. I had a personal helicopter that I flew in and out of my home. I had a 9000 house that I designed and built myself. All the stuff you would say would make a person satisfied.

I was not. I was always looking at the next thing to achieve. In 09 I was almost killed. Suffered a broken neck and TBI. Had partial amnesia and short term memory loss. Took me about a year to recover and THAT is what changed my life for me. I started working out again (and have never stopped). I had been out of the gym for a decade. I slowed my life WAY down, and learned to be present for my family. Before I was always distracted. I lived a VERY simple life for quite a while.

These days I try to balance enjoying each day and making a better life for my kids. I could 'retire', but I enjoy doing things. Not sure I will ever retire. But having the flexibility to live life on your terms is worth more than any amount of money. I have had more and had less at times, and know that happiness does not come from the amount of stuff you have. With that in mind, I can enjoy things.

Oh yea....I still workout 4 days a week at 50. This is after all.... "bodybuilding.com"

I don't have any children yet but if I had a son that wanted to be a professional gamer I would totally support it. I would tell him to start a youtube channel and start streaming on twitch but take it seriously like a job. It's hard to make it on Twitch and these other platforms, etc but it's possible if you believe and actually go for it, just like becoming wealthy. You would know this first hand. Sounds like it's his passion. (not saying you're not btw just speaking in general)

Mirin brah

Keep being a good dad. I wouldn't give up on college for your son just yet. He likes gaming. What about trying to learn computer science and maybe make a game project? I am sure he will figure out what he likes. I had a student who seemed to HATE school, especially math and science, but he found his thing in urban planning of all things. He's now finishing his graduate degree and working for a city in Cali. You never know. Can't write kids off.