# Drive Like Your Kids Lived Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007 "2015-12-21T16:13:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/21 "2015-12-22T00:05:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I have been considering buying one of those signs. Buying one? 😕 Do you have the legal authority to put up public street signs? Or you just want to put it on your own lawn? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/22 "2015-12-22T00:13:25Z")
I sometimes drive through a neighborhood where there’s a street sign saying “We Love Our Children”, which tends to provoke the sentiment “But No One Else Gives A Rat’s Ass”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/23 "2015-12-22T04:13:40Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > My DC neighborhood is filled with Maryland drivers cutting through the city and driving like they’re on I-95. I’ve love if someone reminded them that this is our neighborhood and not their speedway. > [@enipla](#): > > Speeding on residential streets really pisses me off. This is miles from the highway, on a turn that forces you to slow way down, and right after a known cop car hangout which also forces you to slow way down. Plus, I’ve never seen any kids playing anywhere near the area. On a bad day I could burst into tears wailing “I have no children and never will! When I’m gone I will have left no trace of me!!” and blindly plow into someone’s house. Is that what they want? IS IT??!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/24 "2015-12-23T01:34:14Z")
There’s a senior citizens housing complex near me that has one of those "Drive like your kids live here’’ signs along the main road. One of the old ladies ran the sign over. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/25 "2015-12-23T01:49:48Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I don’t have kids, but I can’t see getting upset about a sign like that. My DC neighborhood is filled with Maryland drivers cutting through the city and driving like they’re on I-95. I’ve love if someone reminded them that this is our neighborhood and not their speedway. This Maryland driver will be careful driving through your neighorhood. All the kids are somebody’s and the ones in your neighborhood could be my students. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/26 "2015-12-23T02:32:54Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Buying one? 😕 Do you have the legal authority to put up public street signs? Or you just want to put it on your own lawn? The site I saw had street signs or yard signs. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/27 "2015-12-23T03:33:57Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > A woman in the neighborhood took it upon herself to put placards on 15’ plastic sandwich boards IN THE STREET that said “Slow! Children at Play” > > Target practice is what the locals thought they were. To be fair, 15 feet is a pretty big obstruction in the roadway. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/28 "2015-12-23T03:46:19Z")
I turned down my street one day to find a father walking with his two little kids down the middle of it. While I was trying to get past, he waved at me to stop, and asked that I drive more slowly around his kids. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/29 "2015-12-23T10:05:05Z")
My children “live **d** ” here? What, are they dead now? Well, fuck the other kids! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/30 "2015-12-23T11:24:02Z")
How about I erect a sign: “Supervise your kids like there’s traffic nearby”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/31 "2015-12-23T11:26:01Z")
“Remember, your kids are road kill waiting to happen.” ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/32 "2015-12-23T12:46:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > My children “live **d** ” here? What, are they dead now? Well, fuck the other kids! i) Proof, once again, that the English language is in dire need of a for-real subjunctive. ii) I don’t think you should be encouraging anyone to fuck kids, no matter what has hypothetically happened to yours. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/33 "2015-12-23T13:52:39Z")
Our neighborhood harpy took it upon herself to take a couple of cones from a building site and put hand written “caution children” signs on them and then place them almost in the middle of the street at each end of our block. This, several months after she knocked on all our doors - mine at 9:30 one night- asking us all to attend a City Council meeting t_he next morning_ so we could support her in asking the city to install . . . some kind of traffic calming device. We already have a large speed hump (and signs that say “hump ahead”. That pleases me :p). What I seldom see her do is supervise her two children who play in the street and will literally just stand there and stare at you as you approach in your car. No, I don’t want any harm to come to hers or any other children and yes, I always drive cautiously in residential neighborhoods (though this is more due to watching out for animals, but same results) but if you care so much, keep and eye on them and make some sort of effort to teach them to stay out of the street. Or, and this is wacky I know, take them to that giant park that is literally two short blocks away. It’s going to be a sad sad day when someone hits one of them, and I will feel almost as awful for the driver. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/34 "2015-12-23T14:27:32Z")
Won’t anyone think of the front bumpers!!?? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/35 "2015-12-23T15:03:11Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > (and signs that say “hump ahead”. That pleases me :p) Hee. I giggle like a 11-year-old boy when I see these at the parking garage here. > [@Mean Mr. Mustard](#): > > “Supervise your kids like there’s traffic nearby”. I like the way you think. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/36 "2015-12-23T16:04:28Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > You should post signs in their yards, facing their houses that read: “Teach your kids not to play in the street where I drive” > or “Explain to your kid what it means to be crushed” > or “Chain up your kids in the basement” > etc… Your right to have a nose ends where I can swing my arm. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/37 "2015-12-23T16:06:29Z")
And yet some of the craziest drivers are the parents dropping the kids off at school in the morning; they’ll stop in the No Stopping zone, let their kids out across the street from the school, or go the wrong way up the one-way drop off lane. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/38 "2015-12-23T17:36:24Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > This Maryland driver will be careful driving through your neighorhood. All the kids are somebody’s and the ones in your neighborhood could be my students. I appreciate it. Most Marylanders drive through my neighborhood like the poolboy who’s banging their mom on the side lives here. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/39 "2015-12-23T22:43:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Our neighborhood harpy took it upon herself to take a couple of cones from a building site and put hand written “caution children” signs on them and then place them almost in the middle of the street at each end of our block. This, several months after she knocked on all our doors - mine at 9:30 one night- asking us all to attend a City Council meeting t_he next morning_ so we could support her in asking the city to install . . . some kind of traffic calming device. We already have a large speed hump (and signs that say “hump ahead”. That pleases me :p). What I seldom see her do is supervise her two children who play in the street and will literally just stand there and stare at you as you approach in your car. No, I don’t want any harm to come to hers or any other children and yes, I always drive cautiously in residential neighborhoods (though this is more due to watching out for animals, but same results) but if you care so much, keep and eye on them and make some sort of effort to teach them to stay out of the street. Or, and this is wacky I know, take them to that giant park that is literally two short blocks away. It’s going to be a sad sad day when someone hits one of them, and I will feel almost as awful for the driver. You know Child Services have removed children from their homes for less. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007/40 "2015-12-24T01:29:49Z")
If we ALL drive slowly in streets with kids in them, how will we spot the pedophiles? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-like-your-kids-lived-here/741007.md?page=3)