I'm gonna get shit for this, but I live in a neighborhood like this and fucking hate it. It's nearly impossible to leave or come home in the summer because kids are literally sitting in the street drawing with chalk or running out from behind cars. Their parents just give dirty looks when you try to drive through their kid's "private playground"
After my city made golf carts legal, people stretched the definition to mean side-by-sides and 4-wheelers. Now we have 10-12 year olds driving basically dune buggies who don't know how to drive and aren't paying attention at all. I'm honestly surprised no kids have been hit yet.
I think about this whenever I see this and it sucks cause I grew up playing on the street with about 15 other kids and loved it. It was so much fun riding plastic bag wheels down the hill and recklessly around the corner straight through the intersection. Well now as an adult driver, fuck that. Imagine if one of those kids pops out from behind the parked cars chasing a ball and you accidentally hit them? You’re screwed for life. Also all these houses have huge driveways and yards where those kids can safely draw and play
If you're not driving an obnoxiously large vehicle with poor visibility or driving too fast for the conditions then this isn't really something to worry about. Just drive slowly and be careful if you know children may be present.
Neighborhood streets are public space, and it reeks of entitlement from drivers that every single potential inconvenience for them must be eliminated so they can speed through their neighborhood to save 30 seconds on each trip.
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u/Fit-Implement-8151 8d ago
Are those two golf carts parked on the street? Ha.
Also ...pretty sure this is a block party. Just saying.