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shinypenny wrote: *Why is it that so many people talk on their cell phones while driving? *Don't they realize that research has proven that folks talking on a *cell phone wouldn't even notice a gorilla walking in front of their *car? I don't know about a gorilla, never having come across one in my travels, but my cell phone did not prevent me from seeing (and stopping for) the 8 foot tall inflatable rat crossing the street illegally the other day. Go figure. -- Hillary Israeli, VMD Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." --Groucho Marx |
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In article .com,
"shinypenny" wrote: I'm sure you do none of these things yourself; please take my use of "you" above as not meaning you personally! Just venting one of my big pet peeves! I understand your frustration. We are a five car family (we've got five drivers with a total of six jobs and somewhere between 2 and 3 in college most of the time, and there just doesn't seem to be a practical way to use mass transit for most of us.) One is a mini-van, and we try to park that one in the driveway. Three are old wrecks, and one a smaller car in decent shape. However, I think we generally avoid creating the kinds of problems you have with your neighbors; at least, I hope we do, and I hope they'd tell us if we ARE doing something inadvertant that annoys them! (We do have one neighbor, several houses down, who will come out to tell us that we're in "her" spot if we park in front of her house. We know she's wrong -- street parking is all first come-first served -- but it upsets her so that we don't argue.) -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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Donna Metler wrote:
I'm thinking when she outgrows the infant seat we buy 2 copies of the next carseat, too. Yes do!! My dh and I each need our own car the way our lives are set up and it is quite common that one will drop kids off and the other pick them up. We did the carseat switch about three times, lol. Ever since we've had a full set of carseats in each vehicle. It was money well spent. -- Nikki |
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"Sue" wrote in message ... "Mandy Anderson" wrote in message ... I'm furious with my neighbors who seem to think the streets in our subdivision are for playing. Several women who have nothing better to do petitioned the county to put speed bumps in to slow cars down, yet the speed limit of 25 mph is still fast enough to kill or injure a child. Our neighborhood has sidewalks that start and stop and most of the time, the kids are forced into the street to ride their bike. One thing I have learned in kindergarten that has stayed with me all my life, is that we must learn to share and look out for one another. Too bad you haven't learned that. They may be better off riding on the road all the time. Drivers are able to see kids better when they are in the street than when they are on the sidewalks. And kids can often see drivers better, because they may have a better view, esp. if there are bushes or trees in the way. The were studies done that show that kids who ride in the street are injured less frequently, but, younger kids tend to ride on the sidewalks, so the comparison is not all that good. Jeff -- Sue (mom to three girls) |
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"Donna Metler" wrote in message ... "Hillary Israeli" wrote in message I didn't realize just how annoying that would be (since we have bases for the infant seat in both cars) until we flew with Alli and had to install the base on each plane and in the rental car. I'm thinking when she outgrows the infant seat we buy 2 copies of the next carseat, too. -- People think that's excessive but we have two of each carseat. Until DD gave up her booster(s), both car and minivan had two carseats (for DS) and two boosters (for DD) and then we had spare boosters (Evenflo for $25) for friends of DD (they hated it but it was our rule). We still carry an extra booster for DD's younger friends. Jeanne |
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"Bruce Bridgman and Jeanne Yang" wrote:
"Donna Metler" wrote in message . .. "Hillary Israeli" wrote in message I didn't realize just how annoying that would be (since we have bases for the infant seat in both cars) until we flew with Alli and had to install the base on each plane and in the rental car. I'm thinking when she outgrows the infant seat we buy 2 copies of the next carseat, too. People think that's excessive but we have two of each carseat. Until DD gave up her booster(s), both car and minivan had two carseats (for DS) and two boosters (for DD) and then we had spare boosters (Evenflo for $25) for friends of DD (they hated it but it was our rule). We still carry an extra booster for DD's younger friends. Jeanne My kids got together and bought an extra car seat so that my mom and I would have one when our grandchildren/great grandchildren would have one when they came to visit by airplane. DD#2 often flew to visit us, and since she was traveling Space A, she didn't usually take a car seat. Her sisters had them, but my mom and I didn't. grandma Rosalie |
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"Jeff" wrote in message
k.net... They may be better off riding on the road all the time. Drivers are able to see kids better when they are in the street than when they are on the sidewalks. And kids can often see drivers better, because they may have a better view, esp. if there are bushes or trees in the way. The most common car/bike accident happens when a motorist backs out of the driveway, and hits the bicyclist. For obvious reasons, this happens mostly when the cyclist is on the sidewalk. A backing motorist can not see the cyclist, and is looking out into the street for cross-traffic, anyway, not to the sidewalk. It's why sidewalk riding is more dangerous than the street. Having your kids ride on the sidewalk is fine when they are little, going at a pedestrian's pace. An older elementary school kid should be riding on the street. After you teach your kids to ride, you also need to teach them the rules of the road. This goes for kids on scooters, too. You also need to set the boundaries for them to ride, based on their skill and development. A ten year old can judge crossing a street better than an eight year old, and should have a wider range of streets to ride. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Claire Petersky wrote: The most common car/bike accident happens when a motorist backs out of the driveway, and hits the bicyclist. There have been numerous times my DF almost got killed because a motorist parked on the street opened the door without looking first. The thought terrifies me that someday he won't be able to brake his bike in time. A bicycle helmet is fairly useless to protect against a full body slam into a car door. :-( jen |
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"shinypenny" wrote in message oups.com... If you absolutely need two cars, make one an SUV and the other a smaller car for those trips when you aren't carting around extra people. Okay, now you've hit on one of *my* peeves! This has nothing to do with the rest of your post as we live in a suburb with a 2 car garage and park nothing on the street -- or across non-existent sidewalks. But we have 3, count 'em *3* cars (for 2 drivers) and 2 of them are SUVs. The third is a minivan. This has been an ongoing argument between DH and me. I don't see why we need more than one big car. In my childhood family, my mom always had the big car because she toted around the kids. My dad always had a zippy little 2-door for commuting. But even though I hate that minivan, we "need" it (so says DH) for family vacations when we have a lot of crap to take along. Apparently we can't fit it all in an SUV. On the other hand, we "need" an SUV because we need the 4WD for our ski vacations. We don't "need" the 3rd car, which is a 17YO pathfinder, but hubby is very attached to it, and does like to use it for trips to the hardware store to lug around mulch or whatever. The minivan is almost 7 years old. I've told DH that I'll keep it for 10 years, then I'm getting a small 4-door sedan -- maybe a Prius. I need the 4 doors because I'm still the one toting the kids around. He says that we should be able to get way more than 10 years out of the van. I said that's not the point -- I shouldn't have to drive some- thing I hate for more than a decade. But then he pulls out the ultimate guilt-inducer. Without the van, we won't have room to take the dog with us. Bizby |
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