I see so many people run the stop sign near my house in my neighborhood.
It's on an internal street in the neighborhood. So it's not like they're pulling out onto a busy road or highway.
But it is a stop sign.
The teenagers next door, other teenagers in the neighborhood, and even my own child don't even slow down for the stop sign. They slow down to make the turn but they don't even slow down otherwise. They have been taught by the people in my neighborhood that even though the law says a stop sign means stop, not Steptoe on pedal, they watched others run it and learned that that law doesn't apply all of the time.
My neighborhood used to be pretty clean. I've started finding drink cans and bottles on the road and in yards or more. The other day I found a tray from a fast food restaurant with the rappers and the dirty papers and containers from the chili hot dog and fries with ketchup and mustard and some dessert sitting on the street on the in the middle of the street on the driver side of where the stop sign is leaving our neighborhood.
As I drive through my town I see more and more people running stoplights. I also see people pulling into the turn lanes and then ducking back into the main traffic lane in order to get around somebody that's going slow.
I'm hearing more and more about teenagers getting pregnant because they're having sex at home. And I see the broken families all around me suffering as they try to work their way through things without the help of a consistent partner.
Lawlessness is increasing in our society. Trust is decreasing in our society.
The simple things like stopping at stop signs teach your children a lot. Please stop.
