I saw something last night that truly shocked me. On my drive over to a friend's house, I find myself waiting at a stoplight in the left turn lane, behind about 6 or 8 other cars. The sun has set, and it's dark out. About 3 cars ahead of me, the sliding door of a minivan opens, and out pops this kid. She's maybe 6 or 7 years old. She hops out of the back of the van and starts dancing and jumping around on the median. Now this isn't one of those wide medians. It's a thin concrete divider about 2 feet wide. There isn't much traffic coming the other way, but what I saw was still shocking.

The little girl is hopping around chatting with the woman driving the van through her open driver's side window. (Presumably this is the child's mother.) The little girl hops back into the van, then back out a few times, and is basically just practicing jumping off the median strip as if it were an ordinary curb in her neighborhood cul-de-sac.

The light turns green and the cars in front drive away. The cars immediately behind the van start blowing their horns to get her to go. The little girl hops into the van and the driver drives away, with the sliding door still open. She makes her left turn, and I can see the door slowly being closed from the inside. It was still part way open, however, as I passed by and gave the driver a disapproving scowl.