TamraSLOW DOWN!
February 7th 2008 00:58
And I don’t mean on the treadmill at the gym. I mean when you’re driving around school/s. For heaven’s sake people, it’s not the Bathurst 1000. Just watch, tomorrow morning, seemingly normal parents will be screaming up that ‘Drive 40 For Me’ road, braking to only just avoid hitting your child and driving their kids up onto the pedestrian crossings outside school!
What is it about school zones that turn reasonably sensible people into mad, irate, rule-breaking petrol-heads? People are pulling stunts outside schools that would send the RTA into a tailspin. Double-parking opposite school gates; parking in disabled zones without actual children with disabilities; driving up one-way streets the wrong way, and mounting the footpath to avoid having their children actually step up onto them!!??
And don't get me started on the four wheel drives... Look, if you want to drive around city streets wasting the world's precious reserve on fuel so that you can be just that little bit higher than everyone else, fine. No, go ahead, but for heaven's sake get some decent rear vision mirrors or a reversing camera. I think, and don't quote me, but I think that when a child gets hit from a reversing, large, four-wheel-drive it hurts as much, if not more, than when a small sedan does the same thing. But look whether you're driving a hummer or a citysmart DihatsuyBabyCino, let's not forget our young pedestrians. They're all precious, whether they're yours or someone else's. That meeting, that shopping, that bridge can wait one more minute for you, so slow down and don't smell the rubber. Tamra
"I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat."
Marcus Brigstocke
And don't get me started on the four wheel drives... Look, if you want to drive around city streets wasting the world's precious reserve on fuel so that you can be just that little bit higher than everyone else, fine. No, go ahead, but for heaven's sake get some decent rear vision mirrors or a reversing camera. I think, and don't quote me, but I think that when a child gets hit from a reversing, large, four-wheel-drive it hurts as much, if not more, than when a small sedan does the same thing. But look whether you're driving a hummer or a citysmart DihatsuyBabyCino, let's not forget our young pedestrians. They're all precious, whether they're yours or someone else's. That meeting, that shopping, that bridge can wait one more minute for you, so slow down and don't smell the rubber. Tamra
"I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat."
Marcus Brigstocke
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