A Bit about Speed Bumps

Yes, I know they are all about safety, to help keep speed down on our roads and therefore help deter accidents, but I don’t really think they do their job properly. Some – albeit ignorant drivers tend to drive over the speed bumps at the same speed they would do normally anyway, and so things are liable to fall off their cars and land in front of cars behind them, or hitting pedestrians… things such as bumpers, exhausts and Indian Jones.

They are called Sleeping Policemen, too, but I am not really sure why. They don’t look at all like policemen who are asleep (and in this day and age, surely that should be Sleeping Police ‘Persons.’) In fact they are not like policemen, police persons at all. Try reporting a crime to a sleeping policeman! Mind you, who would want to, they are asleep! Ever seen one trying to arrest someone? No, I think not.

Getting back to safety though, I do not really think they serve their purpose well. I find that when you are driving over a speed bump you are too busy looking at the bump rather than looking around at pedestrians coming out onto the road, like children, OAPs and zebras. Whoever comes up with such ideas (you know, some road engineer thingy guy, health and safety road bloke) needs to have a rethink and start by getting rid of existing speed bumps (starting with the ones on Lindale Gardens please) and put into place other ways of keeping speeds down.

A Bit about Music: Parent versus Child

What is it about parents and children and music tastes? No matter how hard you try, how hard you nurture your child and bring him or her up with the right style of music on your car stereo, no matter how hard you try to drum your style of music into them, they always chose a different style to your own. (Okay, mostly – I know there will be a few of you out there who will say, ‘Well, my Billy likes The Nolans, just like I do!’).

I am a rock fan and since my children were young I have forced my style of music on them in the hope they will like it too, and they did do! They raved over Rush, knew that Maiden weren’t just any old Iron and hailed Helloween, but alas something seems to have changed over the last year and they like rap music. How did this happen?  I hate rap! Okay, they don’t like hard core rap, but stuff like Example (no, I’d never heard of him either).His picture is below right, yes he does look like he could be the leader of the Labour Party, or work at Morrisons. Both my daughter and son love it. The boy will be sat at the lap top listening to it and the girl will be sat with her headphones on listening to it. My rock doesn’t get a look in these days.

I dreamed of taking them to see the likes of Rush, but these dreams will not come true now, the boy’s Metal CD which I made for him a year ago is now forgotten, gathering dust now… 

So… why does this happen? Is it the ‘I know better than you, Dad’ thing? It is them having their own minds..? Or do they just like it? It is a conspiracy? What is the world record for how many questions there are in a paragraph?

They say they still like rock… but I think they are just humouring me.