Parent drivers give Pony Baseball a bad rap

I would like to apologize to Eric Fulton, president of the Agoura Pony League, for my feeling obligated to write this piece.

Eric and the league have received my full support up to now. Anything that has to do with young boys playing sports has my full support, as he knows.

But the driving habits of the parents have changed my mind about the Agoura Pony League at Lupin Hill. They should pack up and leave if the parents continue their ways.

In the past two weeks I have seen, or been involved in, the following incidents:

I followed a parent up Parkmor and they ignored the stop signs at Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Adamor.

I was bearing north on Parkmor and stopped at Thousand Oaks Boulevard. To my left, at the boulevard stop were three cars. The first car was stopped as I was stopping. He had the right-of-way and turned onto Parkmor. The next car did not stop and went right through to Parkmor following the first car. It was my turn to proceed and I did so.

The third car ignored the stop sign and cut me off. Needless to say, I laid on my horn from that time until she turned into Lupin Hill School. Did she stop at Adamor? Silly question-no.

When I pulled up to her on the school grounds, we talked after she left her son off. "Why don't you join the human race?" she asked me. I had a few words about obeying the "rules of the road" and what she was teaching her son.

Parents have to realize their children will eventually drive and all the time they are being driven around they will learn from the way their parents drive.

"Stop" means stop. See page 19 of the California Drivers Handbook. Michael Bird Agoura Hills