Chloe’s Weblog

I don’t completely agree with the mother’s decision. I think it was right of her to sell the car; she and her son had made an agreement before hand that he wasn’t allowed to have any alcohol in the car. This was an extremely sensible rule. Drinking and driving is dangerous and stupid.

I don’t agree, though, with the way the mother sold his car. Even though she says she only wanted to sell the car, it seems that cannot be the only reason she put her sarcastic remarks in the classified ad. The article states that she left the ad in the paper for another week just to get feedback. I think having your car sold is enough of a punishment without public humiliation.

Still, the mother didn’t put her son’s name on the ad, so maybe she never meant to humiliate him, but if that’s the case, she simply had poor judgment in what she was doing. Perhaps she was simply too angry to think her actions through at the time (I know I would have liked to put a similar ad in the paper in this situation, even though I don’t believe it was right). Either way, it seems the mother should have anticipated the publicity in her ad and realized there were much more affective ways to sell her son’s car, if, as she claims, that was all she intended to do.