LOL.....When I got my license at 16, with my '71 Demon, working part-time for $2.15 per hour, driving to high school with my buddies was awesome...............Until I needed gas! Didn't take me long to appreciate the free school bus!!
That sounds pretty familiar and my buddies were seldom around when the gas station stop came around, lol, that was alright I felt like a rich guy making $5.70 an hour in 79 after school. Come winter it was back on the city bus.