Boo'sMom
<font color=teal>Talks to the people in LK's head<
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Morning Angels....
Off to a late start here...must be the rainy weather....
Just took the kids to school...and now I have to rant!!!!!!
We live about 2 miles from the school...in nice weather Patrick has been allowed to ride his bike, just this week AJ was allowed to ride for the first time with Patrick before Patrick goes off to the district school. The road the boys ride to school on (and the same one I drive on) is a "village road" (and the name
)and it's a 35 mph road, fairly flat, fairly straight, and runs parallel to the state highway that runs through town....at 55 mph. Cars tend to sometimes go a tad too fast on our Village Rd, simply because it is just like the state rd. Well, about 1/4 mile from school, there is a long curve that comes to a fork in the road, you bear to the right and head to the school, but coming back from the school, you can't see around the corner as it's also coming up a hill.
(do you all have a picture of this now...LOL)
well, we get to the curve today, and there is a house with their driveway in the dead middle of the curve....out of the driveway come two boys on bikes...not even looking for oncoming traffic (ME) and neither of them wearing helmets......enough to annoy you already, huh????....it gets better.....
one of the boys, the one who lives in that house....was HIT by a dumptruck back in October when leaving school on his bike. He almost lost his leg due to the injuries. He just recently started back in school, after being in extensive physical therapy for 7 months.
It just pissed me off to no end that (1) his parents would allow him to ride to school without learning any better safety measures. and (2) HE DIDN'T HAVE A HELMET ON!!!!!! oh but wait.....the town police department GIVES BIKE HELMETS AWAY FREE every year!!!!!!!!!!!!
grrrrrr.....amazing....you need a license to fish, but not to have kids!!!!!!!!!
Off to a late start here...must be the rainy weather....
Just took the kids to school...and now I have to rant!!!!!!
We live about 2 miles from the school...in nice weather Patrick has been allowed to ride his bike, just this week AJ was allowed to ride for the first time with Patrick before Patrick goes off to the district school. The road the boys ride to school on (and the same one I drive on) is a "village road" (and the name
)and it's a 35 mph road, fairly flat, fairly straight, and runs parallel to the state highway that runs through town....at 55 mph. Cars tend to sometimes go a tad too fast on our Village Rd, simply because it is just like the state rd. Well, about 1/4 mile from school, there is a long curve that comes to a fork in the road, you bear to the right and head to the school, but coming back from the school, you can't see around the corner as it's also coming up a hill.(do you all have a picture of this now...LOL)
well, we get to the curve today, and there is a house with their driveway in the dead middle of the curve....out of the driveway come two boys on bikes...not even looking for oncoming traffic (ME) and neither of them wearing helmets......enough to annoy you already, huh????....it gets better.....
one of the boys, the one who lives in that house....was HIT by a dumptruck back in October when leaving school on his bike. He almost lost his leg due to the injuries. He just recently started back in school, after being in extensive physical therapy for 7 months.
It just pissed me off to no end that (1) his parents would allow him to ride to school without learning any better safety measures. and (2) HE DIDN'T HAVE A HELMET ON!!!!!! oh but wait.....the town police department GIVES BIKE HELMETS AWAY FREE every year!!!!!!!!!!!!
grrrrrr.....amazing....you need a license to fish, but not to have kids!!!!!!!!!
