Another Hit and Run (Page 2): Well, they require something more than money.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

MOST colleges are like that, still I hope.

Maybe they only require SAT or ACT results now....

Well, they require something more than money.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

Well, they require something more than money.

Ollieboy

Have you seen all the illiterates walking around in US colleges, and that includes the faculty.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Ollieboy wrote:

Have you seen all the illiterates walking around in US colleges, and that includes the faculty.

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

jerryc41 wrote:

A 22-year-old college student was walking home at 5:30 PM, walking south in the southbound lane, when he was struck by a vehicle and killed. What a shame. I hope they find the driver. This happened about ten miles from me.

I don’t understand why people walk in the same direction as the traffic flow. I always walk in the opposite direction. If I have to walk across the street to do so I always do. I want to have at least a fighting chance of jumping out of the way and you can’t do that if you don’t see the vehicle veering off course.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fredrick wrote:

I don’t understand why people walk in the same direction as the traffic flow. I always walk in the opposite direction. If I have to walk across the street to do so I always do. I want to have at least a fighting chance of jumping out of the way and you can’t do that if you don’t see the vehicle veering off course.

Ditto.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

tradio wrote:

I live in a college town and I find it incredible how many students will step off the curb right into traffic while looking at their phones. I'm surprised that they aren't hit on a daily basis.

While leaving the high school in a school van loaded with special-needs students, I was holding at the entrance waiting for traffic, and a student actually walked into the side of the van, while looking at his phone...

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Bloke wrote:

While leaving the high school in a school van loaded with special-needs students, I was holding at the entrance waiting for traffic, and a student actually walked into the side of the van, while looking at his phone...

A friend of mine has a 23 year old daughter who when she graduated from grad school she bought her a new car. She totaled the car going through a red light while texting. She bought her another new car and a month later she totaled that car while texting.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Fredrick wrote:

A friend of mine has a 23 year old daughter who when she graduated from grad school she bought her a new car. She totaled the car going through a red light while texting. She bought her another new car and a month later she totaled that car while texting.

While dropping off students outside the high school, in a full-size bus this time, I had a girl back into the side of my bus while trying to do a 3-point turn... If she had even glanced at the mirror, she would have seen a yellow 'wall' filling her view! I spoke with her father, while we were waiting for the school authorities to finish their proceedings, and he told me that this was her 3rd accident in less than a month...

I have always said that 16-year-olds are too young to be driving on the roads...

BigOldArt Loc: Seminole, FL

Are you saying (s)he was in the lane with her/his back to traffic?
Were there sidwalks?

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Bloke wrote:

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I have always said that 16-year-olds are too young to be driving on the roads...

I grew up on a farm and had a driving permit at 14 - I drove pickups to town (5 miles) for parts and supplies. I also drove grain trucks (2 1/2 ton to 8 ton) to the elevator during harvest season. I drove myself to school - and to an after school job which paid for the car I was driving. I got my license at 16 - no issues like these kids today. IMHO, if the parents today taught some responsibility to their kids, we wouldn’t have the problems we are seeing.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

Shellback wrote:

I grew up on a farm and had a driving permit at 14 - I drove pickups to town (5 miles) for parts and supplies. I also drove grain trucks (2 1/2 ton to 8 ton) to the elevator during harvest season. I drove myself to school - and to an after school job which paid for the car I was driving. I got my license at 16 - no issues like these kids today. IMHO, if the parents today taught some responsibility to their kids, we wouldn’t have the problems we are seeing.

AMEN!!!

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

BigOldArt wrote:

Are you saying (s)he was in the lane with her/his back to traffic?
Were there sidwalks?

I was parked at the kerb, disgorging students. She was behind me, but came around me, then changed her mind and went to turn around. Not a terribly wide road in any case, but with my big yellow beastie sitting there, she had no chance of getting around in one. Stopped, stuck it into reverse, obviously didn't even glance at any of her mirrors, then *bang*. Not much damage to the bus, but the plastic at the back of her car was a bit of a mess...

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

Problem with teenagers today is they know it all. When you watch a period drama you note that parents in them used to leave their money to their kids only when they reached 25 or 30. They knew something we seem to have forgotten.

JBuckley

Yes!
The cell phone (drivers) are easy to identify . When the light turns green, they hesitate until the drivers behind them hit their horns.

It’s funny, at the time…unless the lights, quickly turn red for you. Then it’s &@/?’@ from your mouth.