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A group of teenage boys took it upon themselves to sit around on the grass verge near my house. Not so awful, you might think.
Except then, utterly beyond the bounds of sanity, they started standing in front of traffic. Now, I don't live on a particularly busy road, and we are plagued with speed bumps, but this still strikes me as remarkably ****ING STUPID thing to be doing. Their ridiculous, collective, overinflated teenage ego told them that of course, all the cars would stop. When their intended target was going slowly enough, they would slide over the front of the car. The population round here is generally oldish, so they knew that they weren't going to get much aggravation.
Boy were they wrong. I left the house, drove past them, turned round when I was out of sight and waited for a minute. Sure enough, when I returned, 3 of them had stopped another car, two in front of it with the third just lining up his jump. So I acclerated towards them, slammed the brakes on at the last second to grab their attention and jumped out of the car. I have honestly never seen such acute looks of sheer terror in all my life. After shouting "sorry" a few times (for some unfathomable reason) they all ran off. Morons. Complete and utter morons.
Except then, utterly beyond the bounds of sanity, they started standing in front of traffic. Now, I don't live on a particularly busy road, and we are plagued with speed bumps, but this still strikes me as remarkably ****ING STUPID thing to be doing. Their ridiculous, collective, overinflated teenage ego told them that of course, all the cars would stop. When their intended target was going slowly enough, they would slide over the front of the car. The population round here is generally oldish, so they knew that they weren't going to get much aggravation.
Boy were they wrong. I left the house, drove past them, turned round when I was out of sight and waited for a minute. Sure enough, when I returned, 3 of them had stopped another car, two in front of it with the third just lining up his jump. So I acclerated towards them, slammed the brakes on at the last second to grab their attention and jumped out of the car. I have honestly never seen such acute looks of sheer terror in all my life. After shouting "sorry" a few times (for some unfathomable reason) they all ran off. Morons. Complete and utter morons.