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[clootie]

I've just been up to the train station to collect DH (train delayed again, had to come home ) but I admit to feeling a little wary about the car park and who is hanging around there. There must have been about 12 old cars parked very close to one another with kids in them, extremely loud boom boom music (how old do I sound?) the kind that you can feel through the tyres of the car, but they seem to get out of their cars through the windows They are parked so close together it's not possible to open the doors, then after larking about cursing one another, they get back into their cars and take off around the car park at speed only to park up again.

 

I appreciate there's not much for kids to do these days but they all sit on the bonnets of their cars glaring at whoever has the misfortune to drive past them. They don't do themselves any favours do they? They're probably really nice kids but they don't look it and they certainly look unapproachable. Maybe I'm just getting old and tend to judge a book by it's cover which is something I've tried to teach my own kids not to do. Oh well, I have to go back in half an hour, if I don't come back - it's been a pleasure.

[chick wiggle]

lol, good luck clootie. I do know how you feel but it isnt just teenagers that make me feel nervous. I have to pick my husband up from the town centre and I feel so nervous as I have to park near the dole office (or whatever its called now) and I always lock the car doors while I wait for him. Some of the creatures that walk pass have to be seen to be believed

[abwsco]

Well, I'd be Mrs Nasty and ring the Police about them.

[clootie]

Just back and the police were already there, looked like they were all having a very friendly chat which was good to see. Could have done with some help round the corner with the oiks on little bikes who refused to budge from the road junction meaning I had to drive around them. Grrrrrrr

[chickenanne]

Mad, isn't it? These kids must be over 17, so it's not as if they are actually that young - lots are old enough to do the exact same as any other over-18-adult is. If they can't think of stuff to do...

I really wish parents wouldn't buy kids cars: there was an acident on the road beside our house last year, the lad was about 19, driving way too fast, overtaking his mate, nearly hit oncoming car, avoided it but lost control and ended up half in the river, half in our septic tank outflow (nice).

He was OK, fortunately - obviously from a reasonably well-off background, well educated, etc: so not like a sterotypical media ned. His Dad came out next day to retreive car, and it was ludicrous how little trouble this kid was in: I regretted not calling the police following the accident seeing how lightly his parents let him away with it. He nearly killed the people in the other car, never mind himnself.

[clootie]

half in our septic tank outflow (nice).

 

[Valkyrie]

Karma! Sounds like Back to the Future!

 

There are an awful lot of places like that around here - lots in Basingstoke, and even in this village (that used to be, but not a town yet). One of the girls in DS's year used to be out and about at 13 going off in such cars, did favours for alcohol or cigarettes. Then these cars would race up and around a titchy car park. All under the watchful eye of our lovely big brother cameras which are all over the place here - and still things happen. I don't think they're wired up. It can be very scarey - especially when some are agressive after overdoing the booze. DD went to a "gig" last night and came home late on the train and asked to be picked up from the station, she was a bit worried about walking home in the dark - didn't give it a second thought.