Follow the Rules of the Road

So, many of you know we live in a High Class Resort Golf Community. If you follow my tweets, you know how upset some of my days are because of these seasonal snowbirds. We've lived here for almost 2 years now and get extremely irritated when retired golfers come down for season. I guess if we had known this was going to be a huge dilemma, we would not have settled. Everything that looked perfectly magical on the outside wasn't what it was cracked up to be.

I like golf. Bryan golfs sometimes and his buddies come over to weekend golf with him. The issue isn't golfing. The daily routine out of this community is sometimes overwhelming. It takes a full ten minutes to get out of here onto the main streets because most golfers carting think they "Own" these streets and don't have to Stop at their Stop Signs. They glide through one after another like they have the right of way. I'm in a vehicle and have no stop sign at this one particular area. They have 2. I drive this probably more than 5 times a day. I drive slow and most the time I don't have an issue with letting them "Glide" through or sometimes I even stop completely for them, wave and let them go even though they have to stop and I don't.

I am patient with them. I have never actually ran one over, although sometimes I would love to. On this particular day, I was coming home a little after 3 from picking Hannah up and at the beginning of the community there is a 4 way stop including the golfers little stop signs, right where the pic above was taken. And when I was at that stop sign, about 15 carts glided through one after another. Hmmm. I thought we were supposed to take turns here? But I let it slide, didn't get frustrated and continued down the way where another crossing is. From afar I can see golf carts running the stop signs and here is where I DON'T have one, so it is my legal right of way to keep driving through.

Except they don't even bother to LOOK to see if any cars are coming, they AUTOMATICALLY think they Don't Have to STOP?! Excusez??!!! I can't drive past 5 miles an hour, if i do i'll hit them and believe me i wanted to at this point. There are not just 2 carts as seen in the video below, there are 50 { i kid you not }. If you are familiar with golfing, you know this is their game and they like to stick together from HOLE to HOLE and no body else in the world matters...it's all Golf. So the fact that none of them were turning their heads to see if a vehicle was coming made me mad. Because they knew they weren't supposed to be doing what they were doing. So. I Stopped. Real Close to Them. BEEEEEPED. REAL LOUD. HONK. HONK. HONK. Scared the shit out of the lady near my horn. And the rest of the fuckers behind that cart started to YELL at me. I unrolled the window and yelled back. "You have a stop sign. STOP." they insisted on arguing with me mentioning I was speeding? Huh. If I was speeding, (mind you, I seen them from a mile away) I would have hit all of your asses and we wouldn't be arguing in the middle of the road.
I was going to roll my window back up after telling them to "Follow the Rules of the Road." But all of a sudden, the lady whom I scared the shit out of, starts pounding her fist on my passenger side window. Oh fucking yeah! Now I'm stuck in the middle of the road with 50 carts surrounding me and can't move to even slowly pull to the side of the road here and this bitch thinks she now has the RIGHT to punch on my car. Who the fuck do these people think they are?

I find a way to weasel out of the middle of them to pull to the side and put my car in park. It's on. She immediately ran to her cart thinking she was going to run away from me after attacking my car when I clearly have the right of way and you're just mad because my horn scared you! I storm over to her cart where I'm screaming, "Who the fuck do you think you are touching my car." You wanna pound on something, try putting that fist my way lady jany. She hurries, jumps into her cart while I'm not a foot in front of her "Judge" Husband who thinks he's now going to over power me. I kept demanding her name when she refused to answer and he kept saying his name was "Judge, I think I know it all." I didn't give two flying shits about his name, I wanted the bitch. So even though he was tall and trying to prevent me from getting to her, I barged around to see the name tag on their cart and pointed to the bitch telling her she's going to jail. Stood there and called 911. Meanwhile the entire crew of the Heritage Bay Community comes rushing over from the ruckus and I firmly stated this was unbelievable that they think they don't have to follow the rules of the road (they have those little stop signs for a reason) and that it was disrespectful to me as a human being. I have every right to drive through my streets without stopping to wait for 50 carts to glide through because they think I don't have a life and I have ten hours to wait for them when I don't have a stop sign. Something is clearly wrong with that.

The officer who came, had my back completely. He looked right at the management and told them they have to enforce the rules and tell them they cannot run stop signs. Of course the carts had boogied off by this time but this officer waited until they got done with their game at the return and gave them a taste of his authority. He said, Judge or not....he has no right and he's going to make them understand it firmly. He stood with me for about 15 minutes just talking about how people are rude and it's just a respect thing. He said he guarantees that she'll be scared after he gets finished with her. I truly wanted her arrested but there was nothing I could do. So know that if you want to pound on someone's car window, you can as long as you don't break or crack it, phhhftt. And her palm print is still there.

To me, this community is all golf, no family, no park, no life besides the golfing community and that's totally fine. We're only here until we buy our home next summer and this will not be a place that I recommend for anyone with children. They can continue to make their money off the snowbirds because if we want to get all "Who's better than Who", these people acted like I was a nobody because I was in a car and they were in a cart, we probably make more money than them, pay more fees than them and when it's all said and done, people who live here year round are not going to want to be here or recommend them. We deserve respect. Golf cart or no cart, being caught up in a game is no reason to think you rule. I do, thank you very much! and just so you know, i let golf carts glide through after this incident because I do have patience but when you go overboard, it's time for me to take action and let my voice be heard.