An Outsider’s View

To the Editor:

I moved to this lovely town about 18 months ago and wanted to share an outsider’s view no one ever talks about. The adults in this town are not much different from any of the other places I have lived, they live a very-fast paced life running here and there.

Like other places, when we get in our cars, we seem to take on a new identity. Suddenly we transform into a being our mothers would not recognize. It is not age limited, race, religion, or otherwise in how we act like complete morons in our cars. My wife has been cursed no less than five times in the Shop & Stop parking lot over making a move to a space someone else felt entitled to. Just last week someone in that parking lot deemed that after hitting my car, denting it, and scraping the side, there was no need for a note. That one will cost me over $1,000 to fix, thank you. I would like to remind you that you are the same people I go to church with, serve on the PTA with, shop with, donate with, and so on.

My other favorites are the chronic speeders in our town. They seem to forget that actual people live on the streets they drive on, and 25 mph certainly is not meant for them. Those speeders would not do that in their own neighborhood, so please stop doing it in mine.

We seem to have lost the common respect that our parents tried so hard to teach us. We teach our children to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” yet we do not behave that way ourselves.

Don’t get me wrong, I do love this town, but for crying out loud people — grow up and act right!

Bernie Morrell

78 New Lebbon Road, Sandy Hook                               April 15, 2009