What I heard, what I saw.

[elfs]

I'm reluctant to write this because I don't know what happened, but here's what I saw and heard: yesterday, while Omaha and I were getting ready to drive to a restaurant, the woman of the house next door (you know the one) came riding up in her white riced Nissan, driving much faster than the 15 MPH limit our private road demands. We were busy getting Kouryou-chan to put her shoes on but the sound of a child screaming got our attention. Suddenly, we hear the woman next door screaming at the babysitter, who can't be much older than fifteen years old himself: "How you could leave them outside like this? They're not supposed to be outside like this! Get me a fucking towel! Get me a fucking towel now!" The child is still screaming. The babysitter is standing at the front door, arms out at his sides, palms up. We can't hear what he's saying, but she says, "Just shut up and get me a fucking towel!" We step outside in time to see the woman next to her car bundle the child into a big towel and hustle into the house.

A minute or two later, we pull out onto the road and drive by the neighbor's house. Her car is there, awkwardly angled in the driveway. The driver's side door is open.

Beside the driver's side rear panel, a lone child's shoe lay on the asphalt.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

And you wonder why, now that I've got a digicam, I carry it everywhere.

Rest of the story

[brandywilliams.livejournal.com]

Oh Elf, do post when you find out what happened, I'm going to worry about that child.

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[omahas.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure, based on what I heard and what we saw, that she sideswiped the kid as she came rushing into the driveway (not paying attention, of course) while the kid was on one of those big-wheel clones. I think, though we didn't see, that the kid got knocked off of the rider and fell to the pavement, hurting him/herself (couldn't tell which kid it was). But I'll be looking out for all of the children today to see if they are (1) all there and (2) alright.


What irritates me, of course, is that it's all the babysitter's fault, when in reality it was her fault for coming into her own driveway that fast. With kids, not just her's but others on that street, she has no business driving that fast. She is quickly building up a reputation as someone we all want out of this neighborhood.

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[fallenpegasus]

Your new neighbors make me nervous when I drive over. Your neighbors to the south, their kids always retreat to the lawns and their own driveway when a car comes up the road. Your own kids are well trained about cars and roads. But these new kids, seem to have no training at all about how dangerous cars are from the outside.

Plus speeding on your road is criminally negligent.