Hey all, thought I'll share this while waiting on the lights to come back in New Orleans and for the 49ers to come back as well. Please bear with me.
So, we live in a nice planned community (with a lot of professionals, high-tech workers and such) on a street that ends in a cul-de-sac. There are these neighbors at the end of the street where it intersects with the cross street so, we essentially turn the corner and drive by their house as we come onto our street. They are a young family too with two boys, one 8 and the other 4.
So, their kids play on the street often and usually, close to their home rather than down in the cul-de-sac so, essentially quite close to the intersection. My wife and I are always mindful of that as we approach the intersection and slowdown a lot to look for kids on the street.
Just yesterday, I was driving the S back home and as I was turning the corner, noticed the kids and a couple of their friends on the street with the dad in the middle of the street with his back to me. He obviously didn't even hear me coming and I was patiently waiting at a standstill for atleast 15 sec or so before the older kid alerted his dad. Now, this guy (who's a stay-at-home dad) smiles at me and goes "wow, is that a Jag? A Maserati?"; I had my window down and mentioned what it was - the older kid actually knew what it was and was all excited about it. The dad goes "wow, it looks great! Can't imagine what it must have cost ya."
And, that was that. Had always had brief but pleasant interactions with this family before in the past 7 years or so while our kids played in the cul-de-sac together on the weekends.
Today, as my wife was driving her Mini (with its turbo growl and all) back from errands, she was in the exact same situation and came to a stop and was waiting at a standstill for the younger kid to get off from the middle of the road. All of a sudden, the mom (who was standing in her driveway) rushes onto the street and goes "why don't you show off your expensive cars elsewhere?" and so on while accusing both my wife and I of always speeding on our street and other such choice nonsense! I wasn't there but, the guy also apparently got into it and said something like "do you know how much your car weighs? Take your 4,200 lb car elsewhere". So, he had clearly done his research after yesterday!
My wife was very upset by this point and came home quite distressed.
Well, that's that. We have to look out for these folks from here on given the nastiness and the reason for it. Sucks... Thanks for letting me vent
So, we live in a nice planned community (with a lot of professionals, high-tech workers and such) on a street that ends in a cul-de-sac. There are these neighbors at the end of the street where it intersects with the cross street so, we essentially turn the corner and drive by their house as we come onto our street. They are a young family too with two boys, one 8 and the other 4.
So, their kids play on the street often and usually, close to their home rather than down in the cul-de-sac so, essentially quite close to the intersection. My wife and I are always mindful of that as we approach the intersection and slowdown a lot to look for kids on the street.
Just yesterday, I was driving the S back home and as I was turning the corner, noticed the kids and a couple of their friends on the street with the dad in the middle of the street with his back to me. He obviously didn't even hear me coming and I was patiently waiting at a standstill for atleast 15 sec or so before the older kid alerted his dad. Now, this guy (who's a stay-at-home dad) smiles at me and goes "wow, is that a Jag? A Maserati?"; I had my window down and mentioned what it was - the older kid actually knew what it was and was all excited about it. The dad goes "wow, it looks great! Can't imagine what it must have cost ya."
And, that was that. Had always had brief but pleasant interactions with this family before in the past 7 years or so while our kids played in the cul-de-sac together on the weekends.
Today, as my wife was driving her Mini (with its turbo growl and all) back from errands, she was in the exact same situation and came to a stop and was waiting at a standstill for the younger kid to get off from the middle of the road. All of a sudden, the mom (who was standing in her driveway) rushes onto the street and goes "why don't you show off your expensive cars elsewhere?" and so on while accusing both my wife and I of always speeding on our street and other such choice nonsense! I wasn't there but, the guy also apparently got into it and said something like "do you know how much your car weighs? Take your 4,200 lb car elsewhere". So, he had clearly done his research after yesterday!
My wife was very upset by this point and came home quite distressed.
Well, that's that. We have to look out for these folks from here on given the nastiness and the reason for it. Sucks... Thanks for letting me vent