But I am too cool and will live forever!

This morning I was doing my normal kid drop off, as I am about to enter the high school parking lot I see a kid in a red Jeep do a donut in the parking lot to get to his desired spot.  Uhh.. no.

I dropped off my high schooler and as he was walking across the parking lot I circled around and parked myself right next to his vehicle, put up my finger in the "no, no, you bad toddler" and mouthed to him that he better not do it again.

I do have to give him props, he calmly got out of his vehicle, came to my window and talked calmly.  It took everything I had to not go mother bear on him, but I managed.  I told him that it was dangerous to do donuts in the parking lot, and his weak rebuttal was that he was "just doing what I do every day."

Kinda my point there buddy!  I explained that I get it, he is a teen and will live forever, knows it all and doesn't think anything bad will happen.  He assured me that he checked to see no one was there, yet some how, he missed the fact that a gigantic 15 passenger van was turning into the parking lot where he was finishing up his donut maneuver.

He called me m'am several times, and did apologize, but kept to the story that he did nothing wrong in his eyes.  He seemed very level headed, but bull headed at the same time.  This child was not going to concede that he may be wrong, could have endangered another person walking in the parking lot, or himself, or any other driver trying to get to a spot.  He told me to have a nice day and left my window.  I told him to also have a nice day, and to make it a safe one.

Being the overbearing parent that I am, I called the school on my cell and let them know that the child needs to be assured by ANOTHER adult, that it is NOT the way to drive in the parking lot, no matter how sure they are about the safety of driving like that.  They said they were going to talk to him.

I felt a little guilty for calling the school on him, because I don't want him to just get hateful and not really listen to the message, but I needed the school to know they need to be a presence out there with the teens in the parking lot in the morning.

In the past two weekends we have had over 4 deaths, that I know of, because of car accidents.  Experienced drivers, non alcohol related.  All 4 of the fatalities were in separate accidents.  Do I feel that I have the reason to be overly concerned?  Hell yes!

I then called the police department, let them know that I think they are very diligent in patrolling the before school and after school area, but perhaps they can keep an eye on the parking lot with so many teen drivers.  He said they have been paying particular attention during the day time because of the amount of skippers, and will have a vehicle stroll by a bit more in the morning.

I know that it is one of those tabu things to talk to someone else's child, but when it is going to potentially affect the life and safety of my child, I won't back down.

I wondered if it would have some sort of back lash on my son, because I HAD just dropped him off, and we are in a VERY easy to spot vehicle, so I asked, when I got my son, if he knew the child.

I am glad to say that he knows OF him, but not really.  He said that he was telling his friends about the crazy lady that was yelling at him about doing donuts and acted all put out, which made me all the more glad I went as far as I did with calling the school and the police department.  Obviously this child needs a few reminders that being safe is being cool.