Sounds like our neighborhoods are similar. About 70 houses, and there’s at least 10 with a golf cart with huge tires and a sound system. And it’s not some retirement community where you’re puttering around visiting friends. We’re right off a road with 50mph speed limit. One of these days they’re going to take a corner too tight and get blasted by an oncoming car.
Where do you live? Is the point of the golf carts so the kids/parents don’t have to, God forbid, walk around the neighborhood?
I had no idea this was a thing.
Nevermind, about the where, I see the answer.
My brother-in-law and his family moved to a new development in GA a few years ago and the majority of the homeowners seem to have golf carts to get around (it’s not a golf course community, and most of them are their 30s/40s). Seems to be some kind of status thing - “everyone else has one so I need to get one” mentality.
I think you’re right about status. While I do live near a lake, it’s still a good 8-10 miles to get there so these ppl aren’t cruising over to their boats in the cart. It’s all status. My neighborhood isn’t big enough for it to really make sense though. It’s about a half mile square off pretty busy/fast roads. Who knows.
Sounds like our neighborhoods are similar. About 70 houses, and there’s at least 10 with a golf cart with huge tires and a sound system. And it’s not some retirement community where you’re puttering around visiting friends. We’re right off a road with 50mph speed limit. One of these days they’re going to take a corner too tight and get blasted by an oncoming car.
Where do you live? Is the point of the golf carts so the kids/parents don’t have to, God forbid, walk around the neighborhood?
I had no idea this was a thing.
Nevermind, about the where, I see the answer.
My brother-in-law and his family moved to a new development in GA a few years ago and the majority of the homeowners seem to have golf carts to get around (it’s not a golf course community, and most of them are their 30s/40s). Seems to be some kind of status thing - “everyone else has one so I need to get one” mentality.
By get around, you mean around the neighborhood? I know it’s hot as balls down there, I lived in eastern NC for 3 years, but that seems to be taking laziness to an extreme. I moved to Maine 10 years ago, I don’t remember ever seeing anyone with a golf cart to just get around down there at the time.
Yep, around the neighbourhood - between houses, or to the pool/tennis courts.
That’s what I was thinking one day last week when I passed the bridge gang and received no shouts or insults. Great, fine. I turned off the trail and was running down a sidewalk, again, in a well-to-do neighborhood. I passed by a house with a couple kids -I’m guessing 5 and 7 years old- in the drive waiting to get into their Range Rover. The youngest one saw me and resolutely flipped me the bird with both fingers. The 7-year-old saw him do it, started laughing, then did the same.
If I caught one or both of my sons doing that, they would not be using those fingers for the next few weeks. That is totally unacceptable behavior. Those kids did not learn that on their own, probably from their Dad, but also a possibility they learned it from watching asinine YouTube videos.
The golf cart thing has not made it in my neighborhood but it’s a thing over on the lake side.
As far as kids sucking, I have been called just every name in the book and had things thrown at me while running/riding in the richest parts of town. Never really have trouble in the “rough parts” but one day I was running to a local MTB trail to do a trail run and these young kids- 9-12 - were standing in their church parking lot. As I ran by, w/o a shirt on, completely minding my own business one yelled “hey fag” and another yelled “go suck a D, gay.”
I normally would have just gone on my way but the fact they were going in to CHURCH made me stop. I confronted the group and called their parents over. I made them tell their parents what they said to me. One dad didn’t seem to care and it was clear the kids learned it from dad. The other moms/dads were pissed at their kids and appeared to take action.
Kids should never treat strangers (or anyone for that matter) that way but to be walking into church and be so mean to someone for the simple sake of being mean was just too much to let go.
I live on a dead-end road that is 1/2 mile long, with half of the lots on water. The lots are anywhere from 3 1/2 acres to 4 1/2 acres in size. One neighbor has a golf cart, one has a Kubota ATV, and several have four-wheelers.
The guy with the Kubota ATV has a 16 year old son that loves to fish. He’s constantly taking it around to the different places so he can fish. We’re a pretty tight neighborhood so none of us mind him driving it on our property so he can stop and fish. I did have to talk to him because he drives it full speed, even when passing us when we’re walking the dogs. He’s a good kid, so he started slowing down near us.
I live on a dead-end road that is 1/2 mile long, with half of the lots on water. The lots are anywhere from 3 1/2 acres to 4 1/2 acres in size. One neighbor has a golf cart, one has a Kubota ATV, and several have four-wheelers.
The guy with the Kubota ATV has a 16 year old son that loves to fish. He’s constantly taking it around to the different places so he can fish. We’re a pretty tight neighborhood so none of us mind him driving it on our property so he can stop and fish. I did have to talk to him because he drives it full speed, even when passing us when we’re walking the dogs. He’s a good kid, so he started slowing down near us.
Nothing wrong with any of that. In my case, the kids driving around recklessly are at most 13 years old with even younger kids hanging off the back. It’s a shitshow.
Sounds like our neighborhoods are similar. About 70 houses, and there’s at least 10 with a golf cart with huge tires and a sound system. And it’s not some retirement community where you’re puttering around visiting friends. We’re right off a road with 50mph speed limit. One of these days they’re going to take a corner too tight and get blasted by an oncoming car.
Where do you live? Is the point of the golf carts so the kids/parents don’t have to, God forbid, walk around the neighborhood?
I had no idea this was a thing.
Nevermind, about the where, I see the answer.
My brother-in-law and his family moved to a new development in GA a few years ago and the majority of the homeowners seem to have golf carts to get around (it’s not a golf course community, and most of them are their 30s/40s). Seems to be some kind of status thing - “everyone else has one so I need to get one” mentality.
By get around, you mean around the neighborhood? I know it’s hot as balls down there, I lived in eastern NC for 3 years, but that seems to be taking laziness to an extreme. I moved to Maine 10 years ago, I don’t remember ever seeing anyone with a golf cart to just get around down there at the time.
Yep, around the neighbourhood - between houses, or to the pool/tennis courts.
If any one of them so much as mentions the cost of their health insurance, etc. they should be tied to their golf cart and dragged around for a run every morning for a year.
That’s what I was thinking one day last week when I passed the bridge gang and received no shouts or insults. Great, fine. I turned off the trail and was running down a sidewalk, again, in a well-to-do neighborhood. I passed by a house with a couple kids -I’m guessing 5 and 7 years old- in the drive waiting to get into their Range Rover. The youngest one saw me and resolutely flipped me the bird with both fingers. The 7-year-old saw him do it, started laughing, then did the same.
If I caught one or both of my sons doing that, they would not be using those fingers for the next few weeks. That is totally unacceptable behavior. Those kids did not learn that on their own, probably from their Dad, but also a possibility they learned it from watching asinine YouTube videos.
I would not have let that one go. I’d have stopped and walked up to the door to let the parents know what happened.
Is the point of the golf carts so the kids/parents don’t have to, God forbid, walk around the neighborhood?
I had no idea this was a thing.
Where I live, lots of older people ride through the neighborhood daily in their golf carts. I think they are getting their exercise. Some have mag wheels and custom paint jobs.
I live on a dead-end road that is 1/2 mile long, with half of the lots on water. The lots are anywhere from 3 1/2 acres to 4 1/2 acres in size. One neighbor has a golf cart, one has a Kubota ATV, and several have four-wheelers.
The guy with the Kubota ATV has a 16 year old son that loves to fish. He’s constantly taking it around to the different places so he can fish. We’re a pretty tight neighborhood so none of us mind him driving it on our property so he can stop and fish. I did have to talk to him because he drives it full speed, even when passing us when we’re walking the dogs. He’s a good kid, so he started slowing down near us.
Nothing wrong with any of that. In my case, the kids driving around recklessly are at most 13 years old with even younger kids hanging off the back. It’s a shitshow.
We were at a party in NC at a friend’s house. New small development with McMansions on the outskirts of town, so you don’t expect the redneck factor to be all that high. Their neighbors who were coming and going from the party too, had a small 4 wheeler which apparently their real small toddler could use. Like he was still in diapers, literally. At some point, he drove it into the ditch in front of the house and got stuck. Thing could have easily flipped or thrown him off and seriously injured or killed him.
It would have been comical if it was so nearly tragic. The kid’s feet were no where near reaching the floorboards, yet there he was in his diapers sitting on it stretching far enough forward to reach the throttle. It didn’t seem to phase his parents in the least what had just happened.
While I didn’t do it, I do think bringing up the behavior to the parents in that case (mine, where the young kids flipped me off) would be reasonable, yes.
If I could communicate one thing* to the teenagers hurling insults it’s this: I’m not this guy, but if you keep yelling at people in public you don’t know, there’s a fair chance you’ll yell at some guy who does not give a single, solitary fuck about beating you to a fleshy pulp ESPECIALLY in front of your little girlfriend and your snot-nosed dickhead friends.
I recall reading previous LR threads that essentially ask, Have you ever been in a fight? And inevitably you get guys posting who actually know how to fight and have fought (MMA guys, ex-military, law enforcement), most of whom steadfastly advise to avoid street fighting if at all possible. They offer several good reasons, among which is that you never know when you’re going to trigger some crazy person just itching to work out their aggression on you and your $70 board shorts.
*okay, I’d also like to calmly suggest to them that you don’t have to be a jerk. You could just let me do my thing while you do your thing. You don’t have to comment on everything. But as others have mentioned, these are teenagers, and 'twas ever thus.
That’s what I was thinking one day last week when I passed the bridge gang and received no shouts or insults. Great, fine. I turned off the trail and was running down a sidewalk, again, in a well-to-do neighborhood. I passed by a house with a couple kids -I’m guessing 5 and 7 years old- in the drive waiting to get into their Range Rover. The youngest one saw me and resolutely flipped me the bird with both fingers. The 7-year-old saw him do it, started laughing, then did the same.
If I caught one or both of my sons doing that, they would not be using those fingers for the next few weeks. That is totally unacceptable behavior. Those kids did not learn that on their own, probably from their Dad, but also a possibility they learned it from watching asinine YouTube videos.
I would not have let that one go. I’d have stopped and walked up to the door to let the parents know what happened.
I’m guessing the parents wouldn’t care. Kids that young don’t do things like that unless it’s modeled behaviour. Although IF my kids did and someone came and told me - that would be the end of privileges for a good long while.
To preface, my neighborhood is full of kids age 10-15 who don’t seem to have any supervision. They all ride around on golf carts, four wheelers, electric scooters blaring music, leaving their bikes in the middle of the street, and generally have no respect for anything or anyone. So I was out walking my dog last night, and I walked by a large group of them playing basketball. This kid about 12-14 years old says “Hey, I like your cat. How’d you get that thing on a leash?” Yes, I have a small dog. No big deal. Hilarious joke. This kid’s attitude just really bothered me. I smirked and kept walking and this kid continues to crack jokes at my expense. I get it, he’s showing off in front of his friends, but it’s clear he’s a bully. That doesn’t sit well with me. I knew that I couldn’t say anything that would put this kid in his place so I turned around and walked right to the front door to talk to the homeowners. When he saw what I was doing his tone changed immediately, starts apologizing, and pleads for me not to ring the doorbell. Most of the kids playing ball ran home leaving him standing there shitting bricks. I talk to the mom of the house, turns out this kid doesn’t live there, but she reprimands him anyway. I didn’t feel great about ratting him out, but I’d never been shown such disrespect like this from a kid. My wife is pregnant with our first, and I think I just imagined my own child dealing with a bully like this and I didn’t like it, especially only a few doors down from our home.
I was at the airport today picking up an item we left on a place. Guy after me in line starts berating the lady at the counter about where the “damn bags are because they landed 30 minutes ago” and was just rude as could be. I laid into the guy in front of everyone about his attitude and he has no reason to treat a person this way. No reason for such disrespect, I don’t care how late the bags are getting off a plane. Dude shutup real quick and the lady behind the counter thanked me. Its not just young kids its adults who need some life lessons, too.
