Cruise Night Morons

[littlesixsteve]

Why do people bring thier kids to cruise nights?

I went to a local cruise night last night in Milford NH.
Next to my GN is a knockout 65-67 convertible vette.

I see this POS ford bronco with white trash camped out outside the perimeter of the show. Thier kids are running around the cars
playing tag. Mind you it is a school night.

One of the kids ran smack into the door of the Vette.
Lucky no damage.
The Vette owner was nowhere to be found but I bet he would have been pissed.

Must be the nascar mentallity passed down from the parents to the kids.

When I take my Kids to any show I make sure the 3 year old is locked in a stroller & I tell my boys 11 & 15 spcifically no touching the cars, goofing off & the stoller doesn't go between the cars.

[Raymond Bunch]

I fell ya, that would really chap my butt more than anything, even if it wasn't my car.

Their parent are prolly a couple of oxy morons that don't give a crap about other people's property anyhow, who knows. I know me though, I would have said something.

[1987 GN]

You sound like a good parent. Unfortunately at events like that you are the exception not the norm. I had someone's daughter making fingerprints on the window of my TTA with the mother watching her do it and smiling at the pretty designs she made. Ticked me off. I politely asked them to stop and you should have seen the mother's face, shocked as to why I did not appreciate the daughter's decorative artwork!

[littlesixsteve]

I would have said somthing but I was bending into the my gn putting something away & the kid ran off so fast he never came back that way. Of course I was on the verge of leaving.

From now on I am going to try the most out of the way spot myself or just stand/sit near my own car.
Of course that suks because you can walk around & enjoy all the nice cars.

[Race Jace]

What is worse is when they bring their big old dog, most of the times it is a pit bull to show off how strong he is and how much he can pull his owner around. chaps my A$$.

[1of1547]

I would place the blame more on the parents than the kids. The parents are the ones that are letting the kids get away with it!!!
Most kids do not respect other people's property. Not all kids are lack respect, but the ones that don't have respect make up for the others that do. Ask my Dad, he is the building supervisor of a high school. Granted my kids are too young for this to be a problem. But when the time comes and they are involved with some of the stuff my Dad tells me about. We will be going to the hospital to surgically remove my foot out of their azz.

[Raymond Bunch]

Originally posted by 1of1547
I would place the blame more on the parents than the kids. The parents are the ones that are letting the kids get away with it!!!
Most kids do not respect other people's property. Not all kids are lack respect, but the ones that don't have respect make up for the others that do. Ask my Dad, he is the building supervisor of a high school. Granted my kids are too young for this to be a problem. But when the time comes and they are involved with some of the stuff my Dad tells me about. We will be going to the hospital to surgically remove my foot out of their azz.

I second that!

[gn85]

From teaching middle schoolers I can tell you there are definately two sides to this coin.

As said before, there are kids who really do hold respect for others property in high regard. Some kids actually even have this despite the parents total pieces of garbage. I've had students in my class that I thought were great, then met the parents and wondered, HOW the heck did THAT happen.

But as 1 of 1547 said, there are also some that will just SIMPLY amaze you. And in most of those cases, the old saying is VERY true. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

There was a car show one time a few blocks from my school and my students begged me to bring my car. I found this to be a REAL good opportunity to teach them the do's and don'ts of attending a car show. What to look at, what to look for, what NOT to touch. I was pleasantly surprised when I stopped by the car show to see my students following the example.

Never miss a chance to set a kid straight. Even if the parents do.

[turbojimmy]

I always bring my 3-year old. He already knows how to behave around shiny things. Doesn't touch anything, doesn't run around. I keep a close eye on him, too just in case he has a momentary lapse of reason. Like someone else said it's not the kids it's the parents. Kids shouldn't be more than an arm's length from their parents when they're around show cars.

Jim

[Raymond Bunch]

Originally posted by turbojimmy
I always bring my 3-year old. He already knows how to behave around shiny things. Doesn't touch anything, doesn't run around. I keep a close eye on him, too just in case he has a momentary lapse of reason. Like someone else said it's not the kids it's the parents. Kids shouldn't be more than an arm's length from their parents when they're around show cars.

Jim

My 3 year old is also very well behaved, and he knows if it's not his, he doesen't touch it, most of the time Now my 1 year old is a total diffrent story He's going through that phase right now, but he'll learn in time with proper guidance.

[cwelk87gn]

I think they should ban the ricer crowd from cruise-ins while they're at it. At a recent cruise there was some dork riding through at least a dozen times revving the fart pipe exhaust and jamming his weak stereo( did I mention he was in a ragged out mid '80's Sentra?) Needless to say no one was impressed. I don't have a problem with some of the cool little ricers, and there are a few and they have the same pride in their cars as we do.

[Pronto]

Steve, last week you would have enjoyed the same white trash rollerbladeing between the cars almost knocking down people. It is the parents responsibility. White trash=white trash brats. I see cruisers with nice cars that bring little kids that are very well behaved. They know daddy's car is special and so are the other cars there.