Boys and Their Toys

Our neighbors' son recently returned home to live with Mom and Dad and brought with him an ATV. A really loud, really annoying ATV. And then he hooked up with a half dozen friends who also have ATVs, and since he's now living in the country, they come over to ride their loud, annoying ATVs up and down our road. Over and over and over and . . .

It drives me nuts. It drives the dogs nut, which makes me even nuttier. It starts in the morning and goes on well after dark. Even last night, when the lightning was flashing, the thunder was rumbling, and the rain was mixed with baby hail, the kid's still out there, driving back and forth. I'd begun to wonder if he couldn't get a date until I saw that his girlfriend was out there with him.

Sheesh, and she can't think of anything better to do with her boyfriend than ride on the back of his ATV on my road??? Go have sex or something!

And yeah, it's MY road. Literally. We own half the road for a few hundred yards and all of it from there on up the hill. Too bad the law requires us to let the neighbors have access to their property. And I don't have a problem with that, really, because we have to travel over someone else's property to get to ours. But letting people pass to get to and from their homes is one thing. Letting stupid kids, only one of whom lives out here, use the road as their own personal four-wheeler playground . . . Forget the noise pollution, the dust they keep stirred up, the inherent danger to four-wheelers. THEY'RE ANNOYING ME!

There ought to be a law. Rachel9:15 AM