What are some parents thinking...........

[TexKan]

I actually have a boss that will come get me and bring me home but they are few and far inbetween! We are kinda car poor (got more than we need) but it's a safety factor for us. Besides I don't pay the insurance so I just take the proof of insurance paper every quarter!! LOL That makes me a very lucky girl!

[midgetlover]

Amazing we go from what are parents thinking when they remove their children streetside instead of curbside to whether or not the other person has insurance if they hit your car to get it fixed.

Doe it really matter if the driver has insurance or not if you or your children are hit while STANDING in the street removing them from the vehicle when you could have taken the extra few seconds to INSURE (thats the insurance you need when it comes to both of your safety, careful planning) that you both are safe for the moment.

I have seen so many threads on here get off subject it really doesnt do any good to make any specific new ones. I like the some of the responses I have read so far THANK YOU!

[TexKan]

Oh hell - me too! I think when folks are stupid enough to let their kids out on the wrong side of the car - you can make a general statement. You aren't going to change their behavior and there's no law that says you can't put your kids out where you want to. Of course common sense tells you that the street side of the car isn't the place to off load kids but then again what can you do other than to be extra careful when you are surrounded by morons.

[K C Muffin]

When I leave for work late, I end up in a school zone surrounded by morons. The parents actually drive on the wrong side of the street trying to get into the drop-off lane first. I stopped at the stop sign, the proceeded in MY lane where I met head-on a mother who was trying to butt in the line of cars waiting to turn left into the school. She was on the phone and actually had the gall to shake her finger at me. I just shook my head. No need for even a horn. The parents she was trying to beat into the school drop off knew exactly what she was doing. Unfortunately, that kind of thing makes a school zone REALLY dangerous. There are stop signs to stop traffic for the kids to cross on the south side of the school, but crossing guards on the north side of the school. I would think they need crossing guards on the south side, too - cuz parents just breeze through the stop sign. It's the parents that are doing stuff wrong and then they wonder why it's not safer for the kiddos.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by midgetlover

Amazing we go from what are parents thinking when they remove their children streetside instead of curbside to whether or not the other person has insurance if they hit your car to get it fixed.

Doe it really matter if the driver has insurance or not if you or your children are hit while STANDING in the street removing them from the vehicle when you could have taken the extra few seconds to INSURE (thats the insurance you need when it comes to both of your safety, careful planning) that you both are safe for the moment.

I have seen so many threads on here get off subject it really doesnt do any good to make any specific new ones. I like the some of the responses I have read so far THANK YOU!

Actually, it isn't off topic. When the insurance was brought up it was meant that if you let your kids out streetside and they get hit by an uninsured driver, guess who would foot the bill!!! So, yes it does matter if the driver has insurance.

[Clueless]

[quote=K C Muffin;56875]When I leave for work late, I end up in a school zone surrounded by morons. The parents actually drive on the wrong side of the street trying to get into the drop-off lane first. I stopped at the stop sign, the proceeded in MY lane where I met head-on a mother who was trying to butt in the line of cars waiting to turn left into the school....QUOTE]

We need to read KCM carefully - and remember she's in KC, yet it sounds just like Northwest in DC every school morning! The point is that parental-idiots live everywhere, of every nationality, it's not isolated to Dodge City. It's a 'me' focal change in society and not restricted to school zones.

Often, the dumping of kids on the wrong side of the car or street is because the parental-unit is late. That teaches children that it's OK to disobey rules of safety or public conduct. They grow up to do the same. Courtesy, respect for others, being on-time, and 'look-both-ways' types of education are lost and we see the deterioration every day.

Thanksfully, I was raised with a heavy-handed dose of manners and our children and grandchildren have survived the same social training. Are we lost as a mannered society, or is there still hope? I remain negative.

[midgetlover]

Originally Posted by Bubba

Actually, it isn't off topic. When the insurance was brought up it was meant that if you let your kids out streetside and they get hit by an uninsured driver, guess who would foot the bill!!! So, yes it does matter if the driver has insurance.

It wasnt meant for it to be taken as "insurance doesnt matter" but in the whole scheme does it really matter if the driver has insurance when we can prevent it to begin with by taking the time to think safely and make sure our kids come home safe another day thats all.

Insurance isnt the issue, its why would some parents remove their children streetside when it is the safest route to remove them curbside. I sure am not going to be concerned if the car driving towards me has insurance im worried about whether they are going to hit me or my child.

So to sum it up there is no reason to be concerned if the oncoming traffic has insured drivers if we dont put ourselves in a position to think about it period. Park streetside with a child on board remove child curbside and that should the law.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by midgetlover

...I sure am not going to be concerned if the car driving towards me has insurance im worried about whether they are going to hit me or my child...

If the driver does hit you or your child you would be very concerned if the driver has insurance. If they don't, then you are stuck paying the medical bills for something that was not your fault.

I am the one that first brought up the insurance angle in post 10 of this thread, so I know "where my head was at" and what my meaning was when I thought it up.

[midgetlover]

I never said it was you who brought it up so you donthave to single yourself out becaue i didnt wake up tjios morning and say "Im going to single out so and so..." Yet there seems to be people on here who read something take it out of context and think that the specific staement is directed towards them when in fact alot of it is generalized comments, unless specified.

Why wold you have to sit at home and wonder when IF today is the day that you are going to wind up in the hospital because of a reckless driver or MAYBE if you had taken the time the time to just walk around and remove your child from the curbside then the thoughts wouldnt have to be there. Not only does it cover you and your child it eliminated the thought of whether they have insurance for that specific incident.

Now my question is since you are concerned of whether the drivers have insurance is why wouldnt you just go ahead and get some personal medical insurance for you and your children just in case you diecide to take a self concouis (sp) decision to put the your safety and the safety of your child in the way of oncoming traffic. I say this it is never on my mind to whether the car just passed me while im standing in the street has insurance I DONT STAND IN THE STREET.

[Bubba]

I never said it was you who brought up that I started talking about insurance. I brought up the fact that it was me that started the talk about insurance. I could care less if you were directing anything toward me or not. You said that insurance talk didn't belong in this thread. I brought up the talk of insurance and since I didn't make it clear in that post. I stated why I thought insurance does belong in this thread, at least in my opinion.

If you can't see how insurance should be a factor then that is your problem, not mine. You not being concerned if the other driver has insurance is part of the problem in this country. One of the main reasons that inusrance and medical costs are so high is because of the people that don't have insurance. Medical bills go up to cover the cost of the people that don't pay because they have no insurance and no money. The medical care givers are going to get paid one way or another. If they don't get paid by the ones with no insurance they will raise their rates on everything so that they make their money back on the ones that do have insurance.

The people that do pay for car insurance have higher premiums if it is know that there are a high number of people driving in the are with no insurance, which is the case in Dodge City. Why do you think it is cheaper for an 18 year old driver to drive in an area like Manhattan than it is for the same 18 year old driver to drive in Dodge City? Which it is, by the way, even though Manhattan is more densely populated than Dodge and most of that population is in the age bracket that statistically have more car wrecks, the insurance companies know that most of those drivers there are insured. Those insurance people know numbers and they know statistics. Just ask Muffie!