We remember a Far Side cartoon of a group of cowkids - what else do you call cowboy’s sons - on horseback while another sits dazed alongside a horse with an accordioned neck. One of the cowkids says to his unfortunate colleague, “What are you going to tell your dad?”
Indeed, it’s a dilemma many have face. Not us, of course, although that was more through Providence than any behavior - or lack thereof - on our part. Our contretemps have been either on the race track or, many years ago, in a BMW 3-Series off the road and into an telephone pole guy wire while avoiding a collision with a poorly driven car, or more recently, when through no fault of our own, T-boned an older Camry while driving a Cadillac SRX.
Precious few, however, have had to make a phone call home to Dad explaining how his new Ferrari F360 Challenge Stradale centerpunched a telephone pole, as did the young Aussie in this story.
The parently response is typically - or should be - “As long as everyone is OK…” In this case, that should last, oh, for about a minute.
What piques our curiousity, however, is how the kid explained it to his old man when he made the call. We’re soliciting suggestions. We’ll start this off with this: “Uh, Mom, do you know where my passport is?”