OK so It's 3:45pm and the dog starts getting restless, she knows that my three little amigo's are always home from school at that time. I've drilled it into them for years now that they are to always stick together no matter what happens and they are to never leave their siblings alone because that would create a very unsafe situation for them.
So 3:50pm still no kids, I look out the 2nd floor window down the street and no kids... Dog's freakin' out at this time she's usually there at the door and the kids are never late they get their somewhat anal attitude about being on time from me... So I hop in the car and drive down the road. No sooner do I turn onto the main street my three little monsters begin to smile, obviously happy that I have come to rescue them. They get in and explain that one of them (my oldest boy) had detention for swearing at some kids who were bullying him. Well I know that he is constantly being bullied I have witnessed it myself in the neighborhood. He has some developmental delay issues that we are trying to work out with his pediatrician and so I do not focus on issues like this. I am however in a struggle with the teachers trying to reassure them that I am doing everything I can to sort this out with the doctors and that they just have to do what they can to keep his world full of education and not negativity. So far so good.. I think...
Anyhow at this point, being the fantastic husband that I am I make the decision to go get coffee from the Tim hortons for my wife and my mother with the spare change I have in the car... Fair enough, everything goes well up to this point "Welcome to Tim Hortons blah blah blah... " You get the idea.. I leave the parking lot with the coffee's secured in the cup holders, change over to the turning lane where I'm going to turn left. As I accelerate towards the intersection, now doing about 40km/hr out of nowhere two fucking teenagers jump through traffic and into the lane I'm in... With NOwhere for them or myself to go I slam on the brakes and move over to the left as far as I can. I stop inches from both girls and with one of them having placed their hand on the hood of my car they both stare at me for about 3 seconds then break into laughter!
W000T! what the hell are they thinking? At 40km/hr had I not been able to stop both of them would have been either killed or seriously injured and I would have spent Christmas thinking about what a shmutz I was for what happened and as I opened my presents would have broken down into a pile of guilty goo!
Rush hour traffic, hundreds of cars on the road and these two whacked out kids decide to play frogger on the highway...
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
:) I'm ok now, had the chance to vent... and they aren't dead they are ok... So all is well and I can relax again...
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