An article in a newspaper reported a funding problem for a program in High Schools. Teenage girls were provided with a rubber doll, that needs attention just like a baby, feeding, cleaning, nursing etc.
It was to give them an idea what it will be like, to have a baby. I thought it was a poor way of looking at motherhood and wrote the following article to the newspaper and the High School that administers the program.
Experience - the great turn-off
Having been a driving instructor (fair dinkum) and inventor (sort of) for the past 24 years, I would like to tell you about our latest baby, with the view that you can see the potential. On TV Channel 9’s Current Affair, just now, it was shown that young people get their driver’s licence too soon. They then bring home a car and get a shock, when they find out what it’s all about.
To make any potential new driver (let’s call them PND) realize the responsibility of having a licence, we came up with an invention. It’s an aluminum, lightweight contraption (let’s call it ALC), which is the size and shape of an average motor car. It works like this:
The PND inserts a key into the ALC, which then makes a noise. It sounds like vvrrumm-vvrrumm and is fairly loud, let’s call the noise LVV. Every 3.5 hours (210 minutes) the LVV will gradually get louder and louder. This demonstrates to the PND that the ALC wants something. The PND must response to the LVV soon after or it will get louder and louder. If NPDs don’t meet their obligations, they have to go on a ten-kilometer power walk (TPW) or report to the nearest police station.
LVV’s can be very loud. They have the potential to wake whole neighbourhoods. There are five categories of LVVs. They are: LVV, LLVV, LLLVV, LLLLVV and, you guessed it, Kaputt VV. This final category is reached when extreme ALC’s break the sound barrier, which I personally have experienced (Please ask for details).
After 210 minutes the LVV moves to a higher level. The NPD must insert 5 two-dollar-coins, real money, into a slot in the ALC. This is the normal way to silence the LVV. If a NPD thinks he can do it his way, (not meeting obligations) the LLV goes up one level every minute, until Kaputt mode. Immediate Kaputt mode is triggered by alcohol consumption, sleeping, rushing around, risk-taking, lawbreaking or inattentiveness. Depending on the severity of the Kaputt mode, many, many TKWs may be required to get back on the road, if indeed a second chance is given.
In view of the inconvenience of LVVs, experienced by NPDs, contemplating to get real ALC’s, and the fear of going kaputt, many would learn the lessons and defer driving until they cope better. Our invention would see less cars on the road, resulting in less crashes. Less girls would get pregnant in the back of cars, because only mature people would be able to visit drive-in theatres, the type that stays in the driver’s seat.
The project is still in an infancy stage. We trust you don’t think it all sounds too fancy and hope you can see the potential. Please contact us in view of assisting in the development of this life saving de vice.
Kind regards
PS They ought to invent something similar for teenage girls: A small doll that makes a noise, like a baby, when it wants something. It would make them appreciate the work their mothers did for them.