Have you ever almost hit a kid with your vehicle because their parents were idiots?

No, but I have been hit by a kid that was wearing those shoes with wheels because the parents were idiots. And it was a hit and run ie no apology from child or parent.

Parents, if you allow your kid to wear those shoes please teach them road ettiquette. I really don’t want to have a child smck into me everytime my back is turned.

I was at the mall the other day and this woman let her son who couldn’t have been more than 4 push the baby stroller across the parking lot, and he let it go and watched it roll down the hill towards my car.
I flipped out.

@rangerr Perfect example. OMG! So did you say something to her?? Yeah, that dad never apologized to me either.

That’s a pet peeve of mine. I’m quite nearly psychotic about making my kids hold my hands in the parking lot. My six year old has lately decided he is a big boy and doesn’t need to hold my hand. So, we compromise. If he walks right next to me, he doesn’t have to hold my hand. He starts to wander once, and he has to hold my hand. He doesn’t wander. :)

I’ve never had a close call with either my kids or someone else’s kid. I have seen parents who don’t seem to mind if their little kids run ahead of them. I don’t get it. The other day I saw a woman walking through the parking lot with a little boy, maybe 4 years old, following about fifteen feet behind her. She didn’t even turn once to look at him. I kept waiting for someone to back over the poor kid.

@Val123 I got out of my car and grabbed the stroller, and the lady [who I’m pretty sure didn’t speak English very well] got MAD at me for touching the stroller.
“LET GO”
I just kind of looked at her and said “If I do, the baby is going down the hill. You need to watch your damn kids.”
She practically ripped the stroller out of my hands and hurried into the store.

@MissAusten @rangerr It’s like, “What the hell is wrong with you people??!!” I almost expected the dad of the kid who ran into me to start yelling at ME! But…he didn’t. Maybe because of the look I gave him.
Have you ever seen a little bitty kid kind of wandering out into the street and honk the horn at them to scare them back and hopefully get Mom’s ass outside to check on them? I have. And invariable they come flying out the door—and start cussing at me!!

No. But I have wanted to hit the parent with my vehicle because they were idiots.

@rangerr Wow, that’s infuriating. I’m not a parent, but I’m pretty certain that if I was, I would not rely on strangers to do my job for me. Especially when it comes to safety!

Every chance I get.

No matter what, if you’re the driver, it’s pretty much always your fault. No?

@skfinkel I guess that’s the mentality.

@skfinkel leagally? yes
realistically? no

I nearly killed a kid in 2001. I was approaching the left lane of three lanes, at a red light when the lights turned green. I accelerated but from the corner of my eye saw the front cars in the stationary two lanes to my right begin to move then suddenly stop. I didn’t know what was happening but instinctively slammed on my brakes – hard. As I slid to a stop at about the level of the lights, smoke off all tyres, a young girl running while pushing a stroller bounced off the front of my car. She had run against a red light, baby and all. She screamed abuse at me and ran off, stroller, and baby bouncing all over the nature strip. I had half been expecting a dog or similar, making a last second dash had caused the other cars to brake. My wife was with me and she almost had a heart attack.

My fiancé was driving the other day (I was a passenger) and we were passing over a bridge when we seen a couple with their child, who couldn’t have been more than 3. Luckily we had our eyes on the child because she decided to run away from their parents who were too busy looking over the bridge at the water beneath to notice their child run into the road, in front of our car! Very scary. We stopped with plenty of time but it still should’ve never happened. The parents pulled her back to the side of the road but it wouldve been too late if we hadn’t stopped. I hope they got a big wake up call that day.

@DarkScribe OMG! You know, your reaction is the result of experience. You knew the other cars were stopping for a reason, and you followed suit. That’s where young, new drivers fail. In Wichita, not long ago, that exact scenario played out, but a 16 year old in another car impatiently whipped around the stopped car—and hit and killed a little kid.
@ItalianPrincess1217 So I wasn’t simply freaky paranoid when my kids were little! I NEVER took my eyes off of them, unless they were in my house or in my back yard.