What a moron!

[Lookingglassman]

I was driving home from work. Near my house is a small hill and you really can't see anything at the top of it until you reach it.

As I neared the top I slammed on my brakes because right at the top was a moron kid laying on his stomach on his skateboard.

He jumped up when he realized he was seconds away from being run over. I hollered at him out of the window and he ran off.

How stupid can you be? This kid looked like he was about 13-14 years old. If he had been standing he would have been easy to see, but laying practically even with the road made him impossible to see until the last minute.

Well that is my rant for today!

 

[Capn Flukie]

Ah, that crazy young Jim Kirk.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

What can ya say? Kids are stupid and think they're immortal.

And lately they've been getting on my lawn too damned often, too!

 

[Amaris]

I was driving home from work. Near my house is a small hill and you really can't see anything at the top of it until you reach it.

As I neared the top I slammed on my brakes because right at the top was a moron kid laying on his stomach on his skateboard.

He jumped up when he realized he was seconds away from being run over. I hollered at him out of the window and he ran off.

How stupid can you be? This kid looked like he was about 13-14 years old. If he had been standing he would have been easy to see, but laying practically even with the road made him impossible to see until the last minute.

Well that is my rant for today!

Wow, glad you saw him in time, LGM!

What can ya say? Kids are stupid and think they're immortal.

And lately they've been getting on my lawn too damned often, too!

You know, I realized I was getting old when I saw some teens cut across our lawn to get to their house and my first thought was "I wish those damned kids would stay off my lawn". It was at that point I started crying.

J.

 

[Captain Ice]

What can ya say? Kids are stupid and think they're immortal.

And lately they've been getting on my lawn too damned often, too!

By jove, it's a Skipper sighting

How's it going, Grumby?

 

[freak]

Oh those damned kids need to get their asses off the road for pete's sake! And where the hell are their parents when all of this happens???! We have neighbors who let their kids run amuck and one lady moved to another housing addition because of it. And what's worse, the parents could care less and laugh when their kids get in the way. It's uncalled for and just downright wrong.

 

[SeerSGB]

I'll raise you kid on skateboard, for late night last winter nearly hitting a kid in the dark.

There's a steep incline next to the shopping center where the wife works, that leads up to residential area. Last winter, slick roads, dark, this kid comes sliding off the hill into traffic and across all four lanes. How we didn't have a bad wreck is something only the gods know. City police run over, check the skateboard and the drivers, Find out it wasn't a kid but one of those fucking "my size barbies" taped to the board. The little punk that threw it out in the road was standing at the bottom of the hill laughing his ass off. Wasn't laughing so much when the cops put him against the cruiser and started rattle off a list of charges.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I almost hit another kid the other night. It was 10:00pm and there was no street light on the patch of 31W I was on. This kid had on a black shirt, black pants and was a very dark-skinned black guy. He was going to try to dart in front of me and the girl who was in my car happened to notice him at the last moment and I swerved to avoid running him over.

I'm like, "DUDE! If you are going to run out in the road looking like a ninja, at least have something shiny on so drivers can see you!"

 

[SeerSGB]

We had a guy that used to dress like that and prowl the back parking lot of the theater I used to work at. County chased him off a couple times a week, then one night he got hit by a customer (didn't kill him, just broke a few bones) when he was trying to run from the cruiser that had pulled into the parking lot-- who wasn't even there for the Lot Ninja.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Those kids today thinking that they're immortal and can do whatever what they wants to, but they could get killed on the road if they're careless to do about their lives for once, lucky for me, LGM, we didn't have any problems where I once lived in state of New Jersey.

But most kids in my former school were amazingly immature and loves to teasing me a lot, they sure know how to push the red button on me, that's how teenagers thinking that they're immortal, just wait until they're getting much older and realizing that they're not immortal, that they're mortal and that will forcing them to grow up to be more mature the way that society wants them to be.

LGM, be thankful that you didn't run over that moron, but you could teach him a lesson about the life, though!

 

[StarryEyed]

It's not kids today, it's kids of every era. I'm frankly astonished by how many of us survive to adulthood.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Kids of every era, you say, StarryEyed? Sorry, but I must disagree with you respectfully. How can you says that kids of every era behave like that who thinks that they're immortal and can do whatever what they wants to? Again, I'm disagreeing with you there.

 

[StarryEyed]

Well I'm 50 and most kids I knew when I was that age were no different. I remember me and another teen racing our piece of shit cars down the highway at 120 mph on bald tires. Lucky we're still alive.

 

[SeerSGB]

Well I'm 50 and most kids I knew when I was that age were no different. I remember me and another teen racing our piece of shit cars down the highway at 120 mph on bald tires. Lucky we're still alive.

Try two lane blacktop, pouring rain, downhill grade, shit tires, bad brakes, but engine that idled at blow your fucking doors off, and blind curves that'd make a rattle snake puke, a ridge line on the left hand side, foot in the gas the whole way. I almost lost it, end up going the last 200+ feet sideways across both lanes trying to fight the car back into my lane; just jamming my foot from gas to brake.

Hot damn that was fun...stupid, wouldn't do it know that I have kids and wife, but if I had that old Grand Am again I'd be sorely tempted

 

[Trekker4747]

I'm biting my tounge, er, fingernails; here on the OP. My comments would involve a tank.

Anyway, I was driving down the road once when a kid on a snow-sled flew down the bridge abutment and onto the road. Luckily I saw him up there and expected it to happen so I was going slowly enough and had the brake covered.

 

[sidious618]

I'm suddenly in the mood to grab my cane and yell at some kids.

 

[FPAlpha]

Isn't it funny how we are arguing about kids these days when most of us were just like that not too long ago?

Happened to me almost a few days ago.. crusing in my part of town looking for a parking spot when suddenly some kids burst onto the street mere metres away from me and my car.. luckily i wasn't going fast or else i might have hit some.

Just today i nearly had two accidents because of other idiots.. it's not only kids. Adults can be idiots too.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Isn't it funny how we are arguing about kids these days when most of us were just like that not too long ago?

Happened to me almost a few days ago.. crusing in my part of town looking for a parking spot when suddenly some kids burst onto the street mere metres away from me and my car.. luckily i wasn't going fast or else i might have hit some.

Just today i nearly had two accidents because of other idiots.. it's not only kids. Adults can be idiots too.

Very true. Some adults refused to grow up to be like adult that the society wanting them to be, but rather than to be fooling around. My friend, she's really hot (she's MILF, just to letting you know.) Anyways, she told me that her kids are now all grown up and still fooling around, but she was so shocked that I'm not like them, because I'm very mature of my own age.

She really like me a lot.

We've been parting our ways since of last year, we haven't met each other ever since. Would love to share more story about her.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Isn't it funny how we are arguing about kids these days when most of us were just like that not too long ago?

The things you forget when you 'evolve' into your parents.

Flukie, did stupid things as a kid too. [I believe it - everyone]

 

[Joshua Howard]

On certain stretches - about 3-5 miles worth - of Highway 7 (which is actually not a highway at all, but a 5 lane arterial street) people who want to cross jaywalk randomly. The situation is really not very good any way you cut it. Even when they stand at the crosswalks, it is difficult to see them - particularly at night - until it is too late to stop. Additionally, jaywalkers cross even at night, and so it isn't unusual to be cruising along and suddenly notice that there is a dude standing on the lines inbetween lanes trying to get across the road frogger-style.

The other evening I passed a vehicle on that very stretch of road which was stopped at a crosswalk with a woman leaning in the passenger side window talking to the driver, who had just killed her dog (which was still laying - dead - in the crosswalk.

I have never come particularly close to coliding with a pedestrian, but there are times when one does something that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. As a child it was drummed into me heavily that "cars can't see you at night", and I always took that seriously.