Now, I promised you an Only In Alabama this week that was sure to be the “Mother” of all Only in Alabamas and I am here to deliver. Now it does have a backstory. I rarely take or pick up Charlotte from school. My lovely DH does it on his way to work to save gas and to let me be lazy in the morning. Then on the way home for lunch, he picks her back up. I know, I am spoiled.
But the other day he had a meeting and I took Charlotte. On my way to pick her up, I was boxed into the parking lot. This generally happens when morons decide to park and turn off their car next to each other to go get their kids and don’t use the parking spots. While the parking lot is small and limited, it doesn’t matter if one is open, they still park and leave.
And inevitably, the person who goes in will stay for 15 minutes while you wait…. so while I was waiting, boxed in, I was taking pictures of the Fish guy across the street. Yes, he is directly across the street from my daughters school.
Then a lady comes out of Charlotte’s school with a girl from Charlotte’s class, so she is also Charlotte’s age, about 4. Mom is on a cell phone and smoking. Daughter gets in front seat of truck, mom gets in and sits another 4 minutes on the phone while I sit there, wondering if I should hit the back of her car with mine to get her moving, and I notice little girl bouncing around the front seat. Now, I am not for kids in the front seat, isn’t it illegal? But if I only had a truck I would of course have a car seat.
This girl was hanging in and out of the window so long I remembered I had my camera. Then I saw moms break lights. SURELY she was not going to drive off with 4 year old hanging OUT the truck window? No carseat, no seat belt. I grabbed my camera and got like 2 seconds before the camera died.
And you know what? SHE DID.
What you see in this video was what this girl did till the main light down the street. Unfortunately my camera died because I didn’t bring my memory card and it was full from fish guy pictures already. But even the brief moment in this video (and you can see the tail lights starting up for her leaving) just know that this goes on, out the parking lot, onto the main road, and up to the four way intersection before the mom even put down the cell phone and noticed her daughter wasn’t even sitting DOWN.
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I’ve actually called the police when I’ve seen stuff like that. It’s so sad and stupid!
What the Heck, we are not living in the 70′s. I feel bad for that little girl, it is not the childs fault her mom is a ding bat!
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WHAT The Freakin’ Heck was that? I bet she could get arrested for that, we are not living in the 70′s anymore.
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Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to procreate.
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I’d totally be writing down license plate numbers and calling it in while I was boxed in the parking lot. Of course I’m the same person who was taking her camera to the bus stop because people weren’t stopping when the bus was stopped and had her lights on. Thankfully my kid didn’t have to cross the street, but there were kids who did, and their mom was never there to make sure they got home safely. The oldest id was in 3rd grade and we lived on a major state route. Some people just don’t get it.
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dang people WTF is wrong with them?
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I think I’d be on my cell phone reporting her.
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That’s terrible! I am a complete nut about seat belts and car safety! People like that should have their DLs taken away from them…not that it would probably make much difference but still….
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That is ridiculous! I can’t believe anyone would do that!
As for the parking lot situation, I can totally relate. The people at my son’s school park their cars in the entrance lane to the parking lot – blocking off traffic in and out – while they go get their kids. The only days they don’t do it is when the cops show up, so obviously they know they are in the wrong. One day I got so frustrated that I pulled up behind the car blocking the traffic and honked my horn, and the lady just sat there and didn’t bat an eye.
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That is insane.
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Some people just don’t get it! My fil has said before that he thinks it’s fine to take an infant out of their seat and feed them while driving. Luckily the parents of the kid don’t agree and make him pull over. My other bil and his wife do take their kids out and let them play around in the car while driving. I think that is absolutely insane and is just an accident waiting to happen.
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She must be related to the moron at my daughter’s school! Every week it’s the same thing with the lady, it kills me! Smokes, doesn’t buckle the kids in, talks on her phone. She always looks like her face might break if she attempted to smile. Where do these women come from? They’re certainly a piece of work!
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Wow. Give her the parent of the year award. I can’t believe what people do.
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That is not good. I would have said something and probably gotten myself in trouble, but that is reckless endangerment.
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I’ll be watching when I get home.
That’s awful about the mom and girl.
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that is so sad and wreckless
I’m LOL at fish guy though, I did not get the chance to see that last week!
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oh my that is awful.
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