Hi, Rob:  Thank you for dropping by, and for your comment.  Funny thing about these stories is that 1) they're not funny, 2) they're getting less and less sad for me.  I don't think it's that I'm getting more callous as times goes by, but I do think I'm getting sick and tired of:

1) folks walking/running/pushing their kids and strollers right out into the middle of the street in front of me

2) the fact that our friendly local news media (including guys like Dan Tracy that I speak with a good bit) refuses to place any blame on these outside-the-crosswalk pedestrians.  Don't know if it's happened to any of them, but I'd figure that being a 19-year-old driving along and trying to swerve to avoid these folks before killing one would stink.

In my humble opinion, strolling into the street where you're not supposed to be and getting killed is just a crappy thing to do to your family as well.

It's also way past frustrating to see folks push a kid in a stroller right out into traffic in front of an Orange County Sheriff's deputy- only to see the deputy motor on past as if the folks had done nothing wrong.

By the way, I've considered terminating my series here on a couple of occasions- for the subject matter isn't the sunniest, though my goal truly is to prevent some of these if at all possible.  But you know something?  I can write about market reports, repair issues, showings, etc- but this series is at the top of my most-viewed posts I've ever written...

Hi, Rob:  No less than 5 folks came close to finding their way under my van yesterday- in a short span of 436 between Winter Park and I-4. Anyone that's driven along John Young, Colonial, OBT, 436...especially out towards Curry Ford, Kirkman, Curry Ford itself, Powers, Pine Hills Road or Hiawassee once or twice has seen the same thing.  It's amazing how quiet the voices like mine calling for an end to this kind of foolishness are.  Wait a second..I'm atually THE voice- and that's amazingly pitiful.