Not sure what your’re trying to say here. That you think I should be worried? I am, in certain ways that I won’t hijack this thread with. My sense is that grandma got a lot of the child raising duties for reasons that I have a feeling are unsavory, but I don’t know the whole story. I’m torn between minding my own beezwax, looking at them askance with scorn and annoyance (hence my contribution to this thread) and not wanting to heap more hardship on a family that already has what seems to be a heapin’ helpin’ o’ shite. It’s my feeling for the kiddies that prevents me from being a real cunt about it (except, of course here, between us Dopers).
No, this is just like those silly “baby on board” signs. Sort of. I mean, my kid’s school put a bunch of these signs out in the neighborhood, that said something like “Drive safely, XXXXX School children playing here,” and I thought it was stupid, and my kid DID live there.
I have also recently seen one that says, “Drive like your pets live here.”
Hey, while you’re at it, drive like some coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, and rabbits live here. Because they are the ones always ending up dead in the streets. Well, not the coyotes.
Probably just projecting my intense annoyance at the man walking his children down the middle of my street on to your situation; I wouldn’t lightly report a parent for neglect. (I might fantasize about it, but I wouldn’t do it.)
The world must revolve around my children. Everyone else (and their kids) can go to hell.
Huh. I thought walking in the middle of the street (especially when there are perfectly good sidewalks) was the thing for shithead teenagers to do.
Well the little d-bags gotta start somewhere. Snotty little brats make for shithead teenagers.
One of my neighbors placed a “Drive Like Your Kids Lived Here” sign in their yard, near the road, shortly after they moved in. I guess they did not park on the street for a bit before they purchased the house.
The posted speed limit is 25; however most people go 45-50 because it is a rare straight spot in the road and people in the next town use it as a short cut to get to the next town. After a few weeks the sign was gone. Did they give up or move away?
This area is narrow winding roads and houses with 2-3 acre yards so I do not know why their kids would be playing in the street.
Just about everyone in CT drives like a nutter. Well except me of course:D
Turtle crossing signs would be a good idea. Nobody wants to run over a turtle.
Who grow up to be entitled asshole parents that chide their neighbors for driving on the street.
I can’t believe I’m still annoyed by this.
It’s the circle of life! And, all kidding aside, I *can *believe you’re annoyed. You (we) are not some child hatin’ ogres. It’s about everyone having consideration for everyone else.I will automatically use caution while drivnig around reidential streets because I am not a pschopath upon whose laundry list it is to mow down a human. I am also a tax paying adult whose realty contract did not include the proviso that I am part of that mythical village that it apparently takes to raise some kids. Sorry, I did not grow up in such a village and my parents only took part in raising me and my brother, so I’d prefer to opt out. Except I can’t; because you making me do the " do not hit the kids in the road shoo bop shimmy shimmy" dictates that I hold your family " values" way above anything else.
Actually, I am perfectly willing to be part of this mythical village, as long as one of the responsibilities can be saying, “Hey, we already have an idiot! Keep your kids out of the road.”
When I was delivering pizza in college there was a guy who placed 5 or 6 signs in the street in front of his house as a road block. I’d blare the horn and run over at least one sign every time I was in the area. There were never any kids playing outside, he just bought a house on an arterial street in his subdivision and felt entitled to not have any cars driving on it.
Actually, they do.
I’ll never comprehend the level of self-absorption needed to move into a community and immediately try to force the community to bend to your will. Like moving into a new subdivison built by a shotgun range which has been there for 60 years, then trying to get the range shut down.
I DO drive like deer live here when on back roads. A friggin herd of them emerged the other night; thankfully I saw them with plenty of room to stop and let them all cross.
Yep,
Here in suburban Chicagoland, new arrivals to Glen Ellyn complain about all the shotguns going off at the skeet shooting range :rolleyes:
The gun club has existed long before the recent NIMBY types moved in. The gun club has even altered their shooting hours etc. to placate those dopes…
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We (my wife and I) actually have one of those very signs in our yard. Not to mock you for not having kids, but rather because our nice 30 mph residential street is routinely used as a short-cut by people going 40-45 mph and not paying attention. We have a 4 year old and a 1.5 year old- and if you’re not aware, impulse control isn’t a strong suit for children that age. They might easily go chasing something stupid that they dropped and that subsequently rolls/blows into the street, and never look either way.
My pickup truck got rear-ended while parked out in front of our house by a driver going fast enough to require my truck to be flat-bed towed away and spent 4 weeks at the body shop being repaired. Our neighbors next door had their minivan hit similarly.
And the city says they don’t have enough money to put road humps in, based on the budget.
So the best we can do within the law is buy one of those signs.
Those speed humps don’t do much. On our street the drivers floor it until they get to the hump, slam on the breaks, creep over the hump and floor it to the next hump.
I think the idea is that if they’re appropriately spaced, they never get going particularly fast before they have to brake again.
A better approach (both less annoying and more effective) is to texture the entire road surface. Nobody speeds on cobblestones, for example.
Parking as many vehicles as possible on the street does help–though obviously it incurs the risk of damage to those vehicles.
Do you have street trees?