Thu 15 May 2008
Highway Menace
Posted by Claire D under Babeled, Current Events, Society
Every time I drive to school in the morning I am faced with a menacing situation that causes drivers to slam on their brakes, stop suddenly in the middle of a busy highway or crawl along at 30 mph below the posted speed limit. No, I am not talking about a massive fruit truck disaster. I am talking about school buses and school zones. I hate school buses and school zones. There is no reason whatsoever that there should ever be a school bus stop on a major four-lane highway. There is even less reason why that bus stop should be followed by another bus stop thirty feet down the road. These kids can’t walk fifteen feet each and meet in the middle? They have to be picked up at the terminus of their driveway. Ridiculous. You can’t even go around the stupid thing. I have to stop my vehicle, even in the other lane, for this bus stop. At a grown up bus stop, the bus itself doesn’t even come to a stop sometimes. Forget about the other cars stopping.
If those of us who chose to reproduce took any responsibility for themselves and their children, they would teach the little parasites to stay out of the road and look both ways before running out into a highway. Then everyone else wouldn’t need to adjust their lives to accommodate other peoples’ unwillingness to teach their children. Kids should learn to be responsible for themselves. There won’t be any school bus to protect them when they are older, and they will have no idea that the whole world doesn’t stop just so that they can cross the street.
We are turning our children into a bunch of wimpy, slack-jawed mouth breathers who can not even avoid being hit by a car while standing on the side of the road. A bunch of babies who can not even walk across the street without every single car in both directions coming to a complete halt. Why should I put myself at risk of being rear ended by some careless moron who doesn’t see all the unnecessarily stopped vehicles in front of him? I have no vile little progeny running around not knowing how to cross a damn street. Why should I have to alter my life to make space for other people’s untrained idiot children?
And school zones are even worse. By the time the brats are in the school zone there are government subsidized babysitters running around telling the little morons what to do. Yet, everyone still has to go real slow just in case one of the wee beasties breaks free and chases its imaginary friend on to the road. If that happens, it should be the baby sitters’ problem, not my problem. The road is for cars, not kids. If your babysitters are inadequate, then large fences should be erected to prevent such an occurrence, preferably electric.
It is things like school zones that stop the good work of evolution. Can’t cross a street correctly? You deserve what’s coming to you. Get out of my gene pool, you are peeing in it.
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Now that was a top-notch rant. Anytime slack jawed mouther breather is dropped into a post it is elevated to legendary status at once!
May 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Now then as a parent. No matter how much you teach your kids they always have their moments.
They actually have a bus stop on the highway. that is stupid.
You may also want to consider leaving a few minutes earlier or later to avoid the bus.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
“Wee beasties”
Haha, that was great!
More evidence that kids are turning into wimps is that they no longer are capable of carrying a traditional back pack, instead they use carry-on luggage that they can wheel around.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
The current going jury rate for a wrongful death run-over of a slack jawed mouther breather at their bus stop or in a school zone is about $4 million. So be careful. Its a lot cheaper to stop for them or leave a little earlier or later to avoid your stress.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I’m fairly confident that this is only an ancillary example to a broader point.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am
As a christian I don’t approve of abortion, but, you are a perfict example of why there should be a choice. Someone should have aborted YOU!!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I’m both comforted and pleased to know that you clearly understand and follow the teachings of Christ so closely.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
At no point does Dan come close to making a cogent point germane to the subject; additionally, the inability to spell “perfect” is inexcusable for anyone over the age of twelve.
Judging by the intelligence Dan has displayed, it is within the realm of reason to believe his offspring will be genetic pollution and that is why this blog offended him so deeply.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Why is it that the Christians always have to bring abortion into every topic? No one else I know insists on inflicting their view of abortion on others (who could be total strangers, which abortion is not an appropriate topic to discuss with a stranger) like Christians, who, when they introduce themselves, proceed to inform you of both their religious affiliation and their assumptive view of abortion (as if we all already didn’t know as soon as you said you were a Christian…).
Thanks, ranting done.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hey Dan, quit pissing in the gene pool.