Skateboards

Why is it you cannot drive down the streets of Northfield without being slowed, challenged and swore at by someone running, biking, skateboarding or doing some other pedestrian activity in the middle of the street?
Tonight I came up behind a kid on a skateboard, listening to his IPod, in the middle of the lane!! He did not hear me until I was right behind him he jumped out of the way and promptly swore at me! Sorry, wrong answer buddy. I stopped and had a little chat, now I have nothing against kids, have a couple of my own, nor anything against skateboarders, except when they bring their attitude and foul mouth at me.
Then we have a problem and I can guarantee you I can be a helluva big problem when pissed off. But this whiny punk and I mean whiny, whimpered about the “cops” “give us a ticket if we are on the sidewalk”. Like the cops make the rules? No adults, responsible adults, like his parents are supposed to be, make the rules!
I told him that the middle of the road was not for him and he persisted in WHINING “about the cops and tickets and sidewalks!!” I told him I did not care about that, just get out of the road so you don’t get run over!! He finally picked his board up and walked away.
Sorry kid, streets are for cars, trucks, motorcycles and other LICENSED vehicles. Not punks on skateboards, not idiots running down the middle of the street, not bicyclists blatantly disobeying every rule of the road and don’t get me started on the college idjits on the wheeled X Country skies!!
You know it takes parents to raise children, teach them responsibility, accountability, not the “village”, it appears we are failing. Of course with so many broken, single parent families out there, it is not a wonder we are failing.

~ by maddmedic on March 30, 2008.