Grrrr......
So today I'm driving through this upper middle-class neighborhood outside of Austin. I go around a curve and there are
five (5) little kids playing in the street! And there are a bunch of parents standing right there! The speed limit is 30, I was going about 25 and I came to a complete stop about forty feet from the kids.
One of the mothers grabs her kid who was in the middle of the street and yells at me to slow down. WTF? I was going 25 and I stopped before I got anywhere near them! I thought about yelling at her for letting her child(ren) play in the street. Those homes all have spacious backyards and there are broad sidewalks so there is no excuse whatsoever.
So now I'm wondering.....What the hell are these people thinking? The people in that neighborhood are at least in their 30s, educated and intelligent enough to attain the degree of success needed to afford one of those homes......and yet they are naive enough to assume that everyone who drives down that street will be sober, alert and cautious. How can anyone who has spent any time on the road at all be that deluded?
So my point is this: If you have small children, please keep them out of the bleeping street! I'm not saying this because I am a road hog, I'm saying this to avoid tragedy. I was going 25 in a 30, but I have seen people going 60+ through that very neighborhood. And if someone is rolling along in an Expedition or some other vehicle that's 20 feet off the ground, holding an eyeshadow applicator in one hand and a cell phone in the other, they are not going to notice a two foot tall child in the middle of the road.
So yeah......keep them out of the road please. For their sake and everyone else's.
OK. That's the end of my rant.