Thats fine, but I am sure you would not appreciate it if some guy told your mom to STFU if she was pushing your baby brother in the stroller, even if she was wrong. There are other ways to get your point across without having to resort to profanities.

 

I don't think I was really angry, just astonished at the nerve of someone to tell me to slow down so her kids can play in the street when there is a perfectly good park less than 100 paces from her front doorstep.

I have no problem with kids playing in the street. That's what kids do. Even if I have to slow down a bit while they move their portable hockey goal or whatever, I don't generally mind (unless they take their sweet time doing it).

I just think that if you're so worried about your kid playing in the street that you have to direct traffic and try to impose a lower speed limit on people, then you probably just shouldn't let your kid play in the street. The primary purpose of a street is for driving. Sure, let your kids play on the street when it's not being used by cars, but don't try to interfere with the street's primary purpose.

Honestly, if the sign had said "Caution: Children Playing", I probably wouldn't have even had a second thought about it, but just the fact that it said "Slow: Children Playing" rubbed me the wrong way. And the "Slow" was written inside a stop-sign shape, like I'm supposed to stop and look both ways before driving past their house.

 

i never told someone to shut the **** up when their kids were around, maybe youre thinking of someone else

 

[QUOTE=mxt_77,Sep 18 2008, 05:04 PM] I don't think I was really angry, just astonished at the nerve of someone to tell me to slow down so her kids can play in the street when there is a perfectly good park less than 100 paces from her front doorstep.

I have no problem with kids playing in the street.

 

i go slow in residential neighborhoods, but not too slow, and i spend the entire drive scanning both sides of the road for any sign of movement. if i see kids or pets anywhere near the road i drop to 10mph and watch them like a hawk. i just don't want to be responsible for hurting anyone's child or pet, and i try to stay alert to prevent that.

as for the rest... if you're going the speedlimit, no one has the right to yell at you, period. thats rude, i don't care what the circumstances are.

on the other hand, if you see a sign that says 'slow, children' i don't see why that would bother you. its not rude, its just more or less a polite warning/request...

 

No. I don't. Are you attempting to make a point? I'm not seeing it.

I don't think that having kids would suddenly make me decide that I am responsible for directing the traffic in front of my house. If I was concerned that someone would run over my kids in the street, I'd tell my kids not to play in the street.

 

I don't understand why you think they are directing traffic. They are just pointing out the fact that there are kids playing outside.

My 4 year old was riding her bike in the driveway. She got going to fast and couldn't stop in time and ended up in the road. Luckily, there weren't any cars around. I don't let my kids play in the road, or in the front yard, but how many times have you seen kids chasing balls that have rolled away from them?

 

I truly wish you luck with this!!!

 

I have no city streets to speed on, no kids to send scurrying for safety. No adoring milf's to yell at me as I pass at 25 mph! I only have the occasional deer or coyote with a wanton disregard for their life!

 

The signs says "Slow". It doesn't say "Caution" or "Notice" or "Attention". It is specifically telling me to lower my speed, presumably below the legal speed limit. Like I said earlier, if it simply said "Caution: Kids Playing," I likely wouldn't have a reaction to it (other than thinking it's overkill). But, since it is actually telling me to slow down, I was bothered by that.

Similar to the old fogeys telling people to slow down even though they are already driving below the legal speed limit, these parents don't have the right to tell me to slow down just because their kids are playing nearby (or even in the street). If they want to alert me to the fact that their kids are out there, fine, but their inability to keep their kids out of the street doesn't override my legal right to drive the posted speed limit.