What irks me the most is the thing with kids riding with helmets and the parents have none. I see this constantly in my neighborhood, with parents who are so overprotective of their kids that they drive 16 year olds to the bus stop in a cul-de-sac. Most of the time, the kids have the helmets on incorrectly, too; pushed way back on their head. I stop them occaisonally and say something, but the parents give me a look like I am the devil. My husband has had 2 crashes where he cracked his helmet and he is sure he would be brain damaged had he not been wearing one. I teach in a middle school, and none of the kids wear helmets. If they have one, it's hanging from the handlebars or on their head unstrapped. This is after the school started giving free ones to any kid who couldn't afford one, too.