Farmer parents hilariously find out years later that their 16-year-old secretly rode her horse to school when she was grounded from driving: ‘All we could do is shake our head’

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    "Teenager grounded from driving gets even"

    Years ago when my youngest daughter was a teen, she had a truck that she could drive to and from school. Well as most teens are, she managed to get herself grounded (don't remember why now). Dad took her keys and grounded her for 2 weeks. This meant she should be riding the school bus to and from school or walking.
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    We lived on a farm just outside of a very small town. The high school was just over a mile from our house as the crow flies. Our daughter was also a barrel racer and had a few horses.
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    Her horses had been trained to go home if they lost her rider (daughter) as daughter often rode her at the arena on the other side of town or way out in the far fields. If we saw the horse without rider, we knew there was a problem (way before cell phones).
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    Her dad and I both worked off the farm and left early in the mornings, well before daughter would go to school and didn't get home till around 6 in the evening.
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    For some reason she wasn't complaining too much about being grounded from her truck. What we found out later (actually much later) was that she was riding her oldest horse bareback and just a halter to school and then turning the horse loose to go home. A
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    friend would give her a ride home and she would put her horse back in the proper field before we got home. All we could do is shake our head as she didn't drive her truck to school for 2 weeks, but also didn't ride the school bus. After all what 16 y/o farm girl would want to ride the bus.
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    Ref_KT Would have been even better if the old law in Montana still existed where the principle had responsibilty to look after the horses of any students who rode to school.
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    Lay-ZFair Classic case of horse sense! ;) Good for her!
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    prankerjoker Some Random Old Lady: In my day we had to use horses to get around. Your Daughter: Let me tell you about the time I couldn't use my truck for two weeks
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    MoreThanSufficient Living in rural Texas, I occasionally see a horse hitched to a highschool railing. Student probably couldn't get the truck to start.
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    Kitty_tamer Can't fault her for finding a loophole.
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    wornoutBumblebee This is amazing!! She found a workaround, lol. And, oooh, just wait until she experiences the same scenario in life, and you get to bring this golden memory to the table!! JustMe5588 OP She now has 3 boys and yes she is experiencing some of the joys she gave us :)
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    CoderJoe1 Kids, always horsing around
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    verminiusrex That's one of those times where even if you'd found out during the grounding, you don't punish a creative solution because it's just too impressive.
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    aburena2 That is awesome! Independent, smart, and sprinkled with a little rebellion.
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    CawlinAlcarz Barrel racer... you're lucky her malicious compliance wasn't worse.
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