Carpooling at night, though the leading cause of teenage sulking, is the very best type. Pick up the kids after movies, parties or ball games, and you're an eyewitness to history. You know who's drinking, who's smoking, who's about to peel off from the group and get pregnant. Of course, you have to give up some of your own social life and have a thick hide for this. I didn't get lost, and neither did she.
Love does conquer an awful lot.
But it's inescapable that love takes time.