Stupid Skateboarders

So here's my grump for today. Why do people have to drive so fast down the street I live on? Is there a particular reason that it is necesary to drive 50 mph down a residential street? I realize that it is a looooong street and clearly wherever you are trying to go is important, but there are a lot of children and pets that play on this street. A delay of maybe a minute is really not that big of a deal. I am consistently surprised by the speed at which drivers are going down a residential street where you really should not be driving any faster than 25 mph, 15 would be better. Seriously, people will tailgate like 3 feet from my bumper when I drive home and then will swerve around me and zoom down the road, flipping me off in the process. Ask Jane, they did it to her too! Fine, man, you go on driving like a madman and run over someone's pet, or Heaven forbid, hit someone's child. I personally prefer being a teeny bit more cautious. Now before you get the wrong idea that I'm objecting to driving fast, let me disabuse you of that idea. I'm all for driving fast, I do whenever I can borrow a car that goes more than 45 mph in fourth gear. But I don't do it when there are houses and people who live in them within a step or two of my high velocity vehicle. Honestly, it frightens me that Xavier might be riding his bike someday and some psycho speed demon comes racing on by.

And along the same lines, what is with the group of teenagers who ride their skateboards in the middle of the road, clearly taking their lives into their own hands by being in the middle of the road and not paying any attention to the aforementioned speeding vehicles. Let me set the stage for you. I'm driving down the street on my way home at my usual 25 mph, so I see these guys in their stupid skinny jeans and shaggy haircuts (WTF?) riding their boards dead center in the middle of the street. I know they saw me because it took me a good 60 seconds to get to their location. I actually had to come to a complete stop and honk at these punks to get them to move out of the road so I could continue on home. Seriously, do you have no brain at all? I am happy they have a hobby that keeps them close to home, I am a parent too after all. But is it possible to remind these stupid little punks that they are playing in a ROAD WHERE CARS DRIVE and they do need to yield that right of way to a car. I hate to think what would happen if one of those speedster cars came racing around the road with far less notice than me and hit a kid. SLOW DOWN PEOPLE! Its just not worth the minute of time you might pick up. Really.