so i was driving to pick up some friends to go out to breakfast, and i passed some kids waiting for their bus, which was right behind me. they were being themselves, stupid, by throwing sticks around on the curb of the street, and with my luck, one just happened to miss the person they were throwing to and struck my car, while i was going about 45 or so. hard. long story short, the kids parents are covering everything, but it's still a pain in the ass and it just hurts too look at. takes time out of your day that you really can't afford to miss, especially when you have to wait around for the guy to come and fix it (they gave me a 5 hour window of when they will come). here's one of the many pics.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v63/oneill8769/?action=view&current=548bc71b.jpg

Yeah, little kids are asses. I hate them too. Within the FIRST MONTH of having my brand new Focus, some stupid kid rode out infront of me on his bike. I was only doing like 10-15 mph, and had time to stop before I hit him, but he dropped his bike on my car and the handlebar hit my left front fender. There's 2 little dents there from where he did that shit. I didn't bother messing with getting it fixed or anything because some other guy that was driving by was yelling and screaming at the kid's mom and she was yelling and screaming back, so I just drove off after I made sure the kid was okay. Still pisses me off when I look at it.

Also, I hate dump trucks. I now have 2 dents and a chip out of my hood from one (I'm guessing it was the dump truck, because they all suddenly showed up the day after I was behind him) I was behind one and suddenly the back gate thing like opened up a little when he hit a bump and a bunch of little rocks came out and hit all over the front of my car. Things like this piss me off. And now, having only had my car for about 5 or 6 months now, there are 4 small dents in the front, and a chip in the paint.

They should make protective force fields for our cars. I'd pay for it. :P

pics?!?!

I got a little kid story.

When I was a senior in high school, I had a 1991 Subaru Legacy AWD sedan that I bought from a relative with all my pennies. When I would go to school, I, as well as the rest of the kids, would go through the bac neighborhoods and go in through the rear entrance of the school. Everyday when we'd be on our way, there would always be middle school kids waiting ont he corners of the streets for their bus to come and take them to hell.

Well, one of these days as I was driving through the neighborhood, one of the kids on the corner thought he'd impress his little friends by spitting on my car as I drove by.

BIG MISTAKE.

As soon as I saw him do it (he missed by the way) I slammed on the brakes, threw it in reverse, and lit up the tires. Then, with the taste of burning rubber embedding itself on their tastebuds, I lept out of the car and proceeded to charge them. At this point the boy (we'll call him Timmy) had eyes the size of saucers as he saw me coming for him. I said "WHAT THE [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]* DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING BOY". Timmy then began for some reason to babble about doritos and how he had to spit one out of his mouth for some reason.

I didn't buy it.

I finished putting the fear of god in them and left to go to school soon after. I don't think Timmy will be so brave anymore :)

hey... where's your turn signals BlkZX3

Originally posted by prototypepacifist
Yeah, little kids are asses. I hate them too.
:P

I'm sorry but that is a bit harsh in my opinion. What, you never did anything stupid when you were a kid, accidentally broke something or damaged something that belonged to someone else? I did, I was a kid and like most kids they don't yet think past the next event and evaluate the possible outcome of all their actions. We should take a harder look at the parents......but that's another issue.

I'm sure your pissed and upset, hell the only ding in my car is one that my daughter did by accident and yes, I was upset about it. To post that you hate children well, I'm sorry but that in itself seems like a childish statement or reaction to me.

But that's just my 2¢

I didn't literally mean I 'hated' children, focusedat. I have a 1 year old brother and love him to death. And by my statement "little kids are asses" I include myself as a little kid in that 100%. I was probably the biggest troublemaker when I was a kid. I broke my share of people's things, and got my ass stomped for it too. Kids do stupid things, as did I when I was younger (and still do, usually, but that's beside the point) and will probably always do stupid things. But hey, shit happens. Dents aren't hard to get out, annoying, but not usually hard. I was just releaved that I didn't actually hit the kid, and that he was alright and everything.

What part of Missouri are you from, man? Anywhere near Branson?

Originally posted by focusonthefocus
hey... where's your turn signals BlkZX3

In my PM box.

i tried to put some pics on here, but photobucket was being lame. i know someone mentioned on here a better site for uploading pics, but i can't remember the link. anyone know a good one, and if so post it on here and i'll be sure to load more pics...i took about 5 or so.

sorry prototypepacifist, maybe I jumped a little too hard. Just that there are people who do literally hate kids for just that kind of stuff and I'm dissapointed when I see that happen.

I'm in Blue Springs, about 15 miles outside KC.

Yeah, it pissed me off. I bitched about it for about a week straight, but I was glad I didn't actually hit the kid. I don't really like kids, because I like my quiet, but I don't hate them.

KC is a ways away. I go to St. Louis every once in a while, but I never really go to KC. Nice to see another Fanatic from MO, all the same.

Yes, your point of view changes quite a bit when you start having kids of your own, you grow to better understand their thought process and become more forgiving or at least I did.

i hate little kids too. at least i think it is little kids i should hate for it. i went out partying one night and left my car parked at the school. at about 12:30am i came back to get it and was too drunk to notice that my tires were flat. turns out someone had slashed all of my tires. cost me about 800 buxorz to fix.

i also hate it when little kids even ride in my car. i mean they make all sorts of messes. food, ouke, urine... anything that couls possibly make a mess the kids can come up with a way to do it.

it seems like it's not all the little kids, but there are ones that do stupid shit like that and give the rest bad names. after i sorted it out (i actually had to follow the bus to the local middle school, chase the little punk down and have the cops help) it turns out he's never done anything like this before, and he was pressured by the [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]es at his stop to do it, so basically it seems to boil down to those few who ruin it for all. when we went down to the office, the kid was shaking and his mom was apologizing, etc, and you could tell he doesn't usually do this kind of stuff, so we let 'em off with just paying it off. shit happens, but hey, he made a mistake and learned from it. doesn't mean i'm still not really pissed about it, but i hope he doesn't do it again to someone else.

I have two sons and I must say that it is not the kids fault that they are the way they are it is how they are raised. It takes than just having a kid to be a parent, you actually have to raise them in order to be given the title "Parent". I think all of us old ones on here (25+) can tell society is going to crap in the last 5 to 10 years and who is to blame? The kids who were never taught right from wrong and how to respect other peoples property and feelings or is it the parents fault for never teaching these kids today good morals? Just some opinions for everyone to chew on and if you have kids raise em right so in another 5 to 10 years these same kids won't slam the door in your face and the may actually hold it open for you.

yeah that's a good point, you can tell how some kids are raised by how they act, and that does usually reflect directly on their parents. some parents just straight up don't care, and i think that is a shame.

Dead on sidney61199....I have a 7 year old and an 18 year old and every day is a new challenge and believe me I earn my title "parent" every single day. I still see a lot of good kids out there though and it's a same as in any situation that a few make a bad impression for the many.

I had a little kid story when I first got my Focus.

I bought it in July 2003, it was the end of August and I was back at school. The roommate and I were at this light, on a road with 2 lanes in each direction. Suddenly, a schoolbus rolls alongside me with some very super-active/yelling children inside (pobably going nuts because they were on a bus and it was a nice day)... I get this strange feeling like they're gonna do something bad then all of a sudden as the light changes...

Ping! on the roof of my car, some lollipop was thrown out the window directly onto my car (def. on purpose too). Then the bus rolled away and my roommate was like "Wow I thought you were about to leap out of the car and kill someone!" But I restrained myself and have been wary of open-windowed buses ever since....[paranoid]

My best kid story...a client when I worked at an exotic car garage came in one day and explained what happened:

Coming out of a coffee shop, he watched a kid using the windshield and front hood of his car as a slide. The kid was wearing jeans and the rivets scratched the paint, while his weight dented the hood.
The car was a mint 1980 LP500 Countach, $8000 damage. He didn't freak out, he said, "that's kids".

I'll take a small kid over the twats that wear shiny track suits, baseball caps and text-message while weaving all over the road anyday. Waddup, it da shizzle!..shut up.

of course he said "That's kids" about 8000 bucks...cuz he probably has like 40 times that to waste....while us on the other hand...well i'll speak for myself dont have cash for that

lol kind of a harsh subject line mang

When I was a little kid, my neighbors always accused me of throwing rocks at their car, but uhh. I never did, I got in trouble for it a few times, but I would never throw rocks at passing cars. wtf.

I haven't had any problems with little kids yet.

Originally posted by DrRay
I'll take a small kid over the twats that wear shiny track suits, baseball caps and text-message while weaving all over the road anyday. Waddup, it da shizzle!..shut up.

Lol, my sister is a lamer version of that. 1. She doesn't have a car. 2. She doesn't have a phone.

Originally posted by imFOCUStman
lol kind of a harsh subject line mang

yeah i know, i didn't mean it that way, i just wrote it out of anger, hell i came home directly after this happened (missed school because of it) so i let it out on this. my apologizes to any that it offends, but hey it's brought out a lot of stories. so it served some good, besides getting my anger out [;)]

Haha I have a little kid story too...

Some punk ass kids were walking down this hilly road at night that I live on. Well, they decide it would be funny to throw a glass coke bottle out in the middle of the street but I caught them in the act of throwing it. I slam on my brakes and begin sliding in their direction. I jumped out of my car and started yelling at them. They started to run and I ran after them for a bit but one fell in a ditch and the other fell on the road...I couldn't help but laugh and I suppose they learned their lesson.

I don't think they will be doing that again...

yeah that's happened to a friend of mine. some kids were throwing grapefruit from some bushes on the side of the road, when one hit his windshield, didn't break it but bounced off and made a nice dent in his hood, so he jumped out and chased them down. didn't catch them, but ran after them enough to teach them not to do it again. sometimes that's all it takes, it seems, just a little scare to teach 'em.

damn kids next time u see them throwing things swerve towards them lol :) then u have a reason for the swerve and they were the cause [:D]

Most of the time the kids that are causing trouble are the ones with nothing better to do. Their parents don't really care as long as they're out of the house. My kids are still young (5 & 9yrs) but I enrolled my daughter in dance and my son in karate and drum lessons just to give'em something positive to focus on in their spare time. Todays generation of kids are being raised by television and we're seeing the results, parents need to be more involved....just my .02.

Originally posted by silver02svtf
Most of the time the kids that are causing trouble are the ones with nothing better to do. Their parents don't really care as long as they're out of the house. My kids are still young (5 & 9yrs) but I enrolled my daughter in dance and my son in karate and drum lessons just to give'em something positive to focus on in their spare time. Todays generation of kids are being raised by television and we're seeing the results, parents need to be more involved....just my .02.

yeah i couldn't agree more, if the parents got them involved in afterschool activities, like you have done, it would keep them out of trouble and even make them realize what they might be good at. too bad not enough parents realize it.

putting this back on tipic a good place to host pics. according to Frush is www.imageshack.com