We’ve been doing the morning school run for quite a few
years now and that entails a car journey each morning to pick up the grandkids.
During the journey we see lots of mothers taking their kids to school or
nursery and cannot help noticing how casual a few of those mothers are when it
comes to keeping an eye on little kids skipping around next to busy roads.
Some of it is the mobile phone addiction but not always.
Often there seems to be a casual assumption that their kids will be okay
because everyone else is keeping an eye on them and if not they damned well
ought to be because I can’t watch them all the time can I and what you doing
not looking out for little kids in the first place because that’s your job in your car just
as much as mine innit?
I wonder how self-driving cars will cope with this
phenomenon. Do their navigation algorithms have a “dopey mother” identification
mode?
7 comments:
Their numbers are decreasing all the time. Darwinism in action. Think of driverless cars as an introduced predator that will probably eliminate this sub-species.
Look where you are going is a phrase I recall from childhood. When more walked they had to. These days it is both weird and scary that so many do not know how to walk and even more know how to cross the road. Must go, time to wash the blood off the car.
Mothers are certainly a mixed bag.
Sam - driverless cars as an introduced predator? That's a spooky thought. They could all be programmed to go on the rampage at the same time.
Demetrius - it's amazing how many don't look.
James - they certainly are.
Have you looked at the "Dublin" range? 40 shades of green!
Sorry. Wrong blog. Should have been on the one after it. Must stop smelling the paint thinners!
pen seive - if you hadn't mentioned it I probably wouldn't have noticed it's the wrong post! Is paint thinners still available in a world of water-based paint?
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